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.
thats why the pudgy elitist socialists are so scared of guns, they know that the intent of the second amendment was to allow the oppressed to overthrow them ,
the 2nd amendment has nothing to do with shooting ducks, its about a fed up citizenry blowing the bloated overspending constitution shredding tyrannical meatbags to kingdom come
and that might require 100 round clips
In the case of Lautenburg he got elected by bending the rules.
I can’t remember the exact details but it was one of those situation where he stepped in to take the place for another canidate that was ineligable.
The problem was it was AFTER the time period he would have been eligable.
Otherwise, his Republican opponent should have won by no contest.
We must demand that our Constitutional right to bare arms isn't infringed upon any further. It's obvious we are nearing a time of contfontation with those unconstitutional people within our government, and it's obvious they are building their strength while they take ours away. It's ridiculous to let our rights be taken away in such a blatant manner while doing nothing to oppose it outside of the corrupt system that is imposing it on us. We can't save our Constitution from within our unconstitutional system, and that's something everyone needs to start understanding regardless of their response to it.
Obama has no respect for our Constitution, and he will kill as many innocent American patriots as it takes to achieve his leftist revolutionary goals. All he is interested in is how his orders will be received. Obama’s beliefs are the same as those he befriended before the Presidency. The most radical leftist that our nation has ever seen, and who have shown they will use violence. He is the one attempting to bring a radical leftist revolution to our nation, and we have to respond or give up. We are being pushed into this position, and our founding fathers knew this day would come which is why they gave us the Constitutional right to revolt. It's time to make a decision on what you are prepared to sacrifice in the confrontation that's coming regardless of your actions. I hope it ends as peacefully and positive as possible, but people need to be organized and prepared for any outcome.
“Voter fraud exists, but...”
here’s a better explaination from wikipedia:
Democrat Robert Torricelli, withdrew his candidacy for reelection because of corruption charges. The New Jersey Republican Party challenged the replacement of Torricelli’s name on the ballot with Lautenberg’s, arguing that it came too late according to state election laws. The ballot name change was upheld by the New Jersey State Supreme Court, and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up the case.
Me again,
Regardless of how the SC claimed it was to late. Its as simple as there is a 30 day time period and it was past 30 days.
Me again,
It was to late.. regardless of how the SC claimed. Its as simple as there is a 30 day time period and it was past 30 days.
In other words Lautenburg was ineligable to run.
OK, i’m going to take a nap now...:)
Yeah, they will LIMIT the online sales alright...to ZERO!
He bought the ammo with government money.
But we’re not going to limit spending are we?
“...Sen. Frank Lautenberg (N.J.) and Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (N.Y.)...”
Aww, gee...look at who crawled out of the sewer again.
The old senile Twit and the perpetually PMS Halfwit...
“...The largest mass murder only needed 1 gallon of gasoline...”
Actually, the largest mass-murder to date in this country used a couple armored vehicles from Fort Hood, a bunch of ATF agents and other assorted alphabet F-Troop agencies, and over 80 men, women and children died in a little place called Waco, Texas.
But hey...it doesn’t count when the government does it. It only counts when some liberal posterboy nutjob does it...
He purchased 6,000 rounds. But he didn’t use that many. The amount he used could have been bought at Walmart over a couple of weeks’ time.
It’s good that they’re wasting their commie time on trying to pass that bill. There’s no way that it will pass. But they have already succeeded in scaring millions of law-abiding, suburban and urban Americans to “stockpile” more ammunition.
Woooo Hooooo.........watch for it NOW!! Ammo sales through the roof. Every time these guys open their ignorant yaps about gun legislation, we get closer to 100% armed. Hehe.
Typical Re-Action from the DemocRATS! Next, two cyclinder auto’s? What a mess this country is in with the muslims in the infamous White House!
Start stocking-up:
http://www.natchezss.com/product.cfm?contentID=productDetail&prodID=FAAE223BK&src=bckrdAlrt
But noted sportswoman Kim Rhodes does need 100 rounds a day for training in her sport.
So the damn Dems want to LIMIT sales to NOTHING???
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