Posted on 07/29/2012 3:38:40 PM PDT by jazusamo
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. “The shooter used a civilian version of the military’s M-16 rifle with a 100-round drum magazine, a shotgun and two .40-caliber semi-automatic handguns commonly used by police officers.”
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.”
Lautenberg and McCarthy are two high profile advocates of gun control legislation, but they face an uphill struggle in Congress.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said last week that he does not intend to bring gun control legislation to the floor and President Obama has been reluctant to press lawmakers to act on the issue in an election year.
Democratic senators though have offered an amendment to the cybersecurity bill that would limit the purchase of high capacity magazines by some consumers. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) defended it last Thursday as a “reasonable” gun control measure.
The amendment is identical to a separate bill proposed in January 2011 by Lautenberg also banning the sale of high capacity ammunition magazines.
After the shootings in Colorado, the New Jersey senator urged lawmakers to reconsider his bill.
“We need to start today on efforts to prevent the next attack,” he said in a statement. “We should begin by passing my legislation to ban the sale of high-capacity gun magazines. No sportsman needs 100 rounds to shoot a duck, but allowing high-capacity magazines in the hands of killers like James Holmes and Jared Loughner puts law enforcement at a disadvantage and innocent lives at risk.”
Loughner, the gunman charged in the shooting of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (R-Ariz.) and Holmes, who is the lone suspect in the Aurora theater shootings are both believed to have used high-capacity magazines.
these bills have no traction...
....but you might see some traction once the election is over....and more after the new year...depending on how the election goes.
Excellent!!! Point of the Day Award!!!
The famous Bank of America robbery in North Hollywood is, I believe, the only crime in our country’s history in which a large amount of ammunition was used - meaning more than the typical shooter has at home. This is purely an attack on the Constitution, this time targeting the Second Amendment, and it has nothing to do with public safety.
Lefties are so stupid. The guy owned 6K rounds so what? I know people that have ten times that. He only used 50-75 rounds of .223, 8rounds of 12 gauge, and 15 rounds of .40 s&w. How did the internet cause it? He could buy that at Walmart today.
They just need to find some way to get some rights taken from the law biding citizens.
Indeed!
1994 mid-term election Part 2
I’ve nothing on my dance card today, guess I’ll BLOAT at my local gun shop. Not that there’s anything wrong with online. :)
Anybody seriously surprised that the laut would push gon control legislation? really?
Given they want to limit ammo to nuts, how many should nuts like the accused be allowed to purchase? ;)
I was traveling yesterday.
On my way home, i heard the tail end of Jesse Jackson’s radio show (yes, he has one).
He had John Conyers on, some police chief i never heard of and another guest.
They were all beating the drum for reinstituting the “assault weapon ban” and limiting ammunition. They continually misstated what the thinking was behind the formation of the 2nd Amendment.
One of them actually stated that if the Founders were alive today, they would have written in the Constitution restrictions on guns like the AK-47.
/retch
While it is easy to condemn McCarthy and Frankie the Laut for being tyrannical despicable pieces of filth, the real problem is the voters who repeatedly re-elect them. the NY Kongressional contingent is the primary reason that I and many other people in “fly-over” country hold New Yorkers in such contempt. (New Jersey too for that matter) The people there are for the most part not deserving of the freedoms that this country was built on. It’s bad enough that they wish slavery to the government for themselves, but they constantly try to force it on the rest of us.
I support limiting big g’mint libs.
Yet the fr jackboot lickers will tell you that the police are on our side. The minions of the government are there to protect the government and implement the government's commands, not follow the constitution any more that Barry boy and the remainder of his Democratic accomplices follow the constitution.
While it is easy to condemn McCarthy and Frankie the Laut for being tyrannical despicable pieces of filth, the real problem is the voters who repeatedly re-elect them.
Assuming dead people, covict’s, union double dipper’s, pet’s, or cartoon character’s votes are being counted.
That should be their votes are not being counted.
Voter fraud exists, but McCarthy won her last election by 89828 to 77483 (Becker) There is no possibility that there were 12 thousand fraudulent votes out of 89,000. There were probably a few hundred, but the problem is New Yorkers not voter fraud. She was originally elected and continues to be elected on a single issue - gun control. New Yorkers are like plague rats they spread their filty liberal ideas everywhere they go.
:: suppose there might be somebody out there bagging waterfowl with a rifle, but I honestly think they’d be an exception, not the rule. ::
Actually, they would be felon and in violation of the Federal Waterfowl Act.
we dont need congress to fund sociopaths to study the relationship between imagination and reality , and we dont need their help to limit access to ammo
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