New Bill Threatens to Effective Ban Sale of Online Ammunition

With the United Nations poised to sign an international arms treaty that would regulate global arms sales and ownership, and Congressional members just days ago attempting to sneak a nationwide restriction on “high capacity magazines” into a cyber security bill, the attack on firearm ownership in America is now in full swing.

This afternoon democrat Senators Frank Lautenberg and Carolyn
McCarthy unveiled what may possibly be the most sweeping anti-second
amendment legislative action in recent memory. Coming on the heels of
the tragic events that left a dozen people dead and scores injured in
Colorado, it’s becoming painfully obvious to proponents of the Second
Amendment and individual liberty that politicians on the State and
Federal level are doing everything in their power to ensure this crisis
does not go to waste.

Two Democratic lawmakers on Monday will announce new legislation to regulate the online and mail-order sale of ammunition.

Sen. Frank Lautenberg (N.J.) and Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (N.Y.) said the new law would make the sale of ammunition “safer for law-abiding Americans
who are sick and tired of the ease with which criminals can now
anonymously stockpile for mass murder,” in a statement released
Saturday.

The lawmakers cite the recent movie massacre in Aurora, Colo. for spurring their bill.

“The shooter who killed 12 and injured 58 in an Aurora, Colorado
movie theater this month had purchased over 6,000 rounds of ammunition
anonymously on the Internet shortly before going on his killing spree,
according to law enforcement officials,” the statement reads.

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Lautenberg and McCarthy, who will unveil their new proposal at New York’s City Hall say they intend to “make it harder for criminals to anonymously stockpile ammunition through the Internet.”

(The Hill)

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White House Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest said Monday that President Barack Obama will “evaluate” new legislation that effectively bans online sales of gun ammunition, but he wouldn’t say whether the president could support it.

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Lautenberg says his bill could help to prevent the sale of ammunition “to a terrorist or the next would-be mass murderer.”

“If someone wants to purchase deadly ammunition, they should have to
come face-to-face with the seller,” Lautenberg said in a statement.
“It’s one thing to buy a pair of shoes online, but it should take more
than a click of the mouse to amass thousands of rounds of ammunition.”

(Huff Post)

It seems, as we noted in January when New Jersey proposed the banning of certain types of ammunition,
that opponents of the second amendment have found a way to render it
impotent by circumventing gun ownership altogether and moving to
directly restrict the availability of ammunition itself, taxing it like they do cigarettes and alcohol, or eventually banning it altogether.

The text of the proposed legislation has not yet been made available via the U.S. Senate Congressional records web site.

The takeaway, as The Daily Sheeple notes: Stock Up Now.
Not just on ammunition, but high capacity magazines, because these
people will not stop until they’ve completely neutered our second
amendment rights.