The "Usual Suspects" Are now trying to ban Internet Ammo Sales.

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http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/...elcome-bill-restricting-online-182934423.html

"The proposal, crafted by Democratic Senator Frank Lautenberg and Democratic Representative Carolyn McCarthy, aims to restrict the ability of Americans to buy unlimited quantities of ammunition over the Internet, or by mail order, anonymously."

When are these people going to get it through their thick skulls that CRIMINALS DON'T FOLLOW ANY LAWS? If they can'ty buy ammo online, they will just steal it from the law abiding.:cuss:

Here's another article on the same subject.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/...an-online-ammo-sales-following-182636084.html
 
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A) If you're ordering anonymously, that might explain why your order hasn't arrived yet... they're still trying to figure out where you live and who to give the package to. :neener:
B) This actually falls well within Congress' constitutional mandate to regulate interstate commerce. This can happen, legally and constitutionally. Write your representatives, URGE them not to support this.
 
The following is a copy of the email I'm sending to both of my Senators and my Congressman. Thoughts?

I am writing today to urge you to vote against this act, due to the fact that it will do nothing to reduce gun related crime. Criminals by definition don't abide by laws and if this legislation passes, they will just steal their ammunition from law abiding citizens. Furthermore, this bill would create more red tape for both dealers and law abiding citizens and there is already no such thing as "Anonymous Online Sales" because if a person did try to purchase anonymously, there would be no way they could provide a delivery address or name for the ammunition to be delivered to. and most if not all online retailers require that purchasers email, fax, or mail a copy of their state issued identification prior to the shipment of any ammunition. And they all require that the Ammunition buyer must be over the age of 21 years to purchase pistol ammo, 18 years for rifle ammo, and never have been convicted of a felony or adjudicated as mentally defective or been committed to a mental institution. These requirements would have stopped neither the VA Tech Gunman nor the maniac that shot up the movie theater in Colorado to mention just 2. The bottom line is that if a person is hell bent on commiting a crime, no amount of legislation is going to stop them.
 
If mail order ammo sales are banned, then ammo sales would be channeled into face-to-face transactions through FFL dealers. The logical next step would be to require FFL dealers to record the buyers the way they do now with gun purchasers.

This was tried once, after the GCA '68, and was found to be unworkable.
 
There are some stores that sell ammo but do not sell guns. Do they have to get a FFL just to sell ammo? I hope this does not happen because you can easily order quite a bit of 22 ammo to burn through a short period of time.
 
I reload all my ammo for my guns and this is BS, given the senator from NJ that supports this bill made sense since he has a track record of anti bills. If this for some reason does pass, I can only see it trickling down to individual components.
 
Write Your Representatives and Senators

This is the subject I used. Stop Online Ammunition Sales Act.
Feel free to copy and paste the message I posted above.. We need to do everything we can to stop this, because if it passes, the price of ammo is likely to go up and the Federal Government will probably try to make criminals out of anyone that purchases more than 1,000 rounds in a 5 day period.
 
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I don't watch broadcast TV much, but I hope there's somebody out there talking sense on the airwaves in the face of this absurdity. Their talk of "unlimited," "anonymous" purchases of "thousands of rounds of ammo" "with just a click of a button" is just meant to rile up those who approach the issue of gun rights and the shooting sports with emotion rather than thinking and have no practical experience with the issues at stake. When I've ordered ammo over the internet I have to do more work to tell them who I am and where I live than I had to recently at a face-to-face gun store!

This is the type of proposal we need to oppose tooth and nail. The shooter in Colorado bought 6,000 rounds of ammo, but he wasn't carrying 6,000 rounds. But they say that hoping people think that this type of law could prevent this type of atrocity from happening again, all the while ignoring the fact that just 1 box (or less!) could cause just as much mayhem.

I hope someone speaks the truth to this nonsense.
 
Question: Do you think it's dawned on these people yet that I can buy hundreds of rounds of ANYTHING at my local hardware store, pay cash, and carry the only identifying record of that transaction (my receipt) away with me?

Answer: You'd better believe it has... and that'll be next.
 
It's the Democrats way of feeling better about themselves and increasing votes in light of the Aurora massacre.
 
Reason why I reload but that would be next, reloading components....


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And a ten day cooling off period on any in store sales of ten or more rounds is next.
 
Isn't Lausenberg the same guy that gave us the ex-post-facto domestic violence 'barred from firearms ownership' law?

Oh yeah..after reading the link..Lautenberg & Carolyn McCarthy..the usual suspects of the dis-arm America movement.
 
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That crap burns me up...... "It requires licensed ammunition dealers to report the sale of more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition to an unlicensed person within any five consecutive business days."

How many rds did holmes use? 100 or less? doing all they can to make life harder on the people that writes their checks.
 
Whoa, steady guys, all they're trying to do is stop the purchase of "unlimited quantities of ammunition" but we're all OK since everyone knows all a real hunter needs is 2 rounds to sight in his rifle before deer season, and three or four rounds for hunting since there's a season limit of three deer per year. So a yearly limit of five rounds, all properly microstamped with serial numbers and painted a bright orange color is perfectly acceptable to Senator McCarthy. Anything more than that is unreasonable, right? :scrutiny:
 
Seems like I remember when you had to sign for ammo, back in the 1970s maybe? Anyone else remember that?
 
Same knee jerk reaction after every mass shooting by those who's terms in office are defined by anti gun measures.
McCarthy was elected specifically on gun control measures and continues to be a one issue politician and just parrots her parties vote 98% of the time.

I'm more concerned with the people who have kept her in office the past 15 years as a do nothing politician. What does that say about their thought process?

The anti gunners are woefully predictable.
 
I remember signing for ammo after the hated GCA of 1968. Eventually that went away, but i don't remember when.
 
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