NRA: Gun blogs, videos, web forums threatened by new Obama regulation

washingtonexaminer ^ | June 7, 2015 | Paul Bedard

[PROCON]

Commonly used and unregulated internet discussions and videos about guns and ammo could be closed down under rules proposed by the State Department, amounting to a "gag order on firearm-related speech," the National Rifle Association is warning.

In updating regulations governing international arms sales, State is demanding that anyone who puts technical details about arms and ammo on the web first get the OK from the federal government — or face a fine of up to $1 million and 20 years in jail.

According to the NRA, that would include blogs and web forums discussing technical details of common guns and ammunition, the type of info gun owners and ammo reloaders trade all the time.

"Gunsmiths, manufacturers, reloaders, and do-it-yourselfers could all find themselves muzzled under the rule and unable to distribute or obtain the information they rely on to conduct these activities," said the NRA in a blog posting.

[FreeInWV]

I liked the Patriot act protest.

http://www.businessinsider.com/patriot-act-protest-sees-10000-websites-block-congress-from-accessing-them-2015-5

Perhaps a movement should be started to block the .gov domain at the firewall level. Sorta like a citizen’s Bluecoat. That would be highly controvertial, but legally sustainable. It would be interesting to say the least!

[TLI]

Police in China's capital said that starting Sept. 1, they will start patrolling the Web using animated beat officers that pop up on a user's browser and walk, bike or drive across the screen warning them to stay away from illegal Internet content.

The animated cartoon alerts, designed to startle Web surfers as they move across the screen in a virtual car, motorcycle or on foot and remind them that authorities closely monitor Web activity, will appear every half hour on 13 of China's top portals, including Sohu and Sina. By the end of 2007 the icons will appear on all Web sites registered with Beijing servers, the Beijing Public Security Ministry said in a statement.

China stringently polices the Internet for material and content that the ruling Communist Party finds politically or morally threatening. Despite the controls, nudity, profanity, illegal gambling and pirated music, books and film have proliferated on Chinese Internet servers.

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2007/08/police-in-china.html

So of COURSE little bammy just has to go there...

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[sport]

Almost everyone, to one extent or the other, is effected by Obama’s regulation[s]. For those of you who , like myself, that voted against the bastard, I emphasize . For those who voted for the sob, enjoy your misery.

[Don Corleone]

Their Marxist lawyers will never give up. They will search for loopholes, create imaginary loopholes and/or just write rules and dare the people to ignore them. That is what dictatorial governments do. Get used to it.

[ought-six]

“Was it Mark Levin who said that Obama was going to go all-out Mussolini in his 2nd term?”

Well, things didn’t work out so well for Mussolini.

[Rinnwald]

Strange. The second Mussolini looks a lot like General Patton.

[PROCON]

Get used to it.

Have you given up?

This is a direct infringement on our 1st Amendment in order to circumvent the 2nd.

The thirst of the Liberty Tree is nearing inevitable quenching!

[Mollypitcher1]

Their Marxist lawyers will never give up. They will search for loopholes, create imaginary loopholes and/or just write rules and dare the people to ignore them. That is what dictatorial governments do. Get used to it.

I DON’T intend to “Get used to it.”

[MtnClimber]

No tyrant deserves a natural death. Sadly, many have. But, not Hitler or Mussolini. The end of Mussolini was true justice. Too bad Cambodia did not apply this principle to Pol Pot. He should have been hung in public even if he was a day away from death of natural causes.

[centurion316]

I believe that I need to see much more before I am going to get excited. I am very familiar with ITAR and has a number of dealings with the moron bureaucrats at the State Department who administer State. They usually have no clue what they are doing, so I’m not surprised from that point of view, but I’m also skeptical that they have any idea what they have really proposed.

An important question is, “Are gunsmiths, gun publications, and enthusiast fora subject to ITAR”? I doubt it, but it’s possible.

My company is subject to ITAR and we must jump through many silly hoops to ensure compliance. Much of it has to do with transfer of tecnically data to foreign governments, military, and industry. For example, we need to be real careful with what information is on our hard drives when we travel overseas. If there is a loophole that allows that information to be posted on corporate web sites, then it probably needs to be fixed.

ITAR grew out of the transfer of satellite technology to the CHICOMs during the CLINTON regime. The Clintons were likely implicit in this deal between Loral and the CHICOMs.

[Forty-Niner]

Nh...a lot like George C Scott who played Patton!

[TangibleDisgust]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088579/

[Junk Silver]

“Commonly used and unregulated internet discussions and videos about guns and ammo could be closed down under rules proposed by the State Department...”

Hasn’t anyone here ever played basketball? Can’t you spot this obvious fake-out? We’ll protest these proposed State Department regs and think we’ve quashed them, only to discover that all this and more is part of the internet regulation in the Trans-Pacific-Partnership - brought to you by your Republican whore legislators.

Remember, you have to pass the bill to still not see what’s in it!

[Biggirl]

I predict massive civil disobedince is coming.

[Biggirl]

Revolt is coming.

[broken_arrow1]

I hate f@cking libtards...

[EnigmaticAnomaly]

I’m to the point of actually YEARNING for it...let’s get this over so the tree of Liberty can be nourished once again...

[Rinnwald]

Knew a fine old gent who served in the Third Army. Said Geo Scott nailed the Patton character, except for the deep, gravelly voice used for the performance. The real Gen. Patton had a somewhat high and sqeaky voice.

[onedoug]

What the hell does the State Department have to do with this, no less any other totalitarians?