I spoke to the Wouxun importer and they are dumping them due to a really cheap memory chip being used that can fail in as little as a few months. When it fails it will no longer save channel lists.
I just bought the official baofeng 3800mah and it seems to work very well. Good quality construction, I have the uv-5r and it fits perfect. My friend has a uv-5r+ that I will see if it can be made to work with.
Im not sure if the gun expert picture was aimed at me but I did look up the law
Shooting Across Roads or Water—It is illegal to hunt, shoot at or kill any animal or to shoot at any object from within, into, upon or across any public road. It is illegal to shoot across a body of water except in...
A lawyer friend brought this up... if we put him on trial in US court it must be by US law. So he is innocent until proven guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt. Which now offers him the possibility of going free.