Even after E-Bay clearly told ABC the purchases were of "empty magazine clips,” these reporters from ABC's "Law and Justice Unit" accuse E-Bay of illegally selling ammunition online!
Ammunition is a bullet, a cartridge case, a primer and some powder combined into a "round' of ammunition ready to be fired. A "magazine" or "clip" is what a "round of ammunition" is loaded into.
That mistake is the same as confusing a gas tank for 20 gallons of gasoline or an empty airliner for 300 passengers!
Sales of ammunition online is very illegal.
The sale of "magazines" or "clips" is perfectly legal, routine and unremarkable.
This is simply another case of unqualified reporters taking their own prejudice and complete lack of knowledge, and lying to 300,000,000 Americans about an important story.
And they wonder why MSM is losing viewers so quickly...
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To: MindBender26
...and most people on FR don’t know the difference between a magazine and a clip!
76 posted on
04/22/2007 1:03:50 PM PDT by
gc4nra
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To: MindBender26
77 posted on
04/22/2007 1:10:35 PM PDT by
gc4nra
( this tag line protected by Kimber and the First Amendment (I voted for McClintock))
To: MindBender26
Dope on CNN made the same misrepresentation. Called them clips at first, then referred to the clips as ammunition.
To: MindBender26
Sales of ammunition online is very illegal. No, it's not .... see www.ammoman.com .... good deals and free shipping
BLOAT.
87 posted on
04/22/2007 1:32:56 PM PDT by
Centurion2000
(Killing all of your enemies without mercy is the only sure way of sleeping soundly at night.)
To: MindBender26
The wording the MSM uses is not careless or uninformed. It is done very purposefully to advance an anti-gun agenda.
In a previous shooting (I can't remember which one) the reporter said the gunman wouldn't have been able to shoot so many people if automatic weapons had been banned. The thing was, he was shooting over a thirty minute period, and fired 30 or 40 shots total, obviously pretty easy to do with an auto, semi-auto, or even a sling shot in that space of time. What's worse was the gunman wasn't using an automatic weapon in that shooting, it was a semi-automatic. Not only was the logic flawed, the premise was inaccurate as well.
It's the deliberate disinformation by the MSM that really irks me most.
89 posted on
04/22/2007 1:50:18 PM PDT by
JayNorth
To: MindBender26
"Sales of ammunition online is very illegal." No it's not. You can go to "Sportmans Guide" or any number of other sites and buy ammunition all day. And it should stay that way.
To: MindBender26
Cho apparently purchased a two-pack of 10-round ammunition clips for a Walther P22 on March 22, 2007, less than a month before killing 32 people and himself at Virginia Tech. The ammunition was purchased on eBay from Elk Ridge Shooting Supplies. The killer's eBay feedback page is still up on eBay.
eBay Feedback Page for blazers5505 (64)
"Good buyer, prompt payment, valued customer, highly recommended..... Seller bullelk14 (10468) .... Mar-22-07 19:40 .... 140098812797 "
On Mar-22-07 19:27:27 PDT, in eBay Item number: 140098812797, he bought a 2 pack of Walther P22 Magazines that were empty of ammunition.
eBay Item number: 140098812797
94 posted on
04/22/2007 4:06:17 PM PDT by
Polybius
To: MindBender26
I guess when I saw this and made a post right here on FR about it yesterday I must have been ignored.
To: MindBender26
Media ignorance on parade. Apples and oranges.
109 posted on
04/23/2007 12:58:08 AM PDT by
BigSkyFreeper
(There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity)
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