Posted on 05/13/2015 4:26:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
House Democrats are introducing legislation that will “place limits and safeguards on the online market for ammunition.”
Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-N.J., announced this week the Stop Online Ammunition Sales Act of 2015, which would require face-to-face purchases.
In a statement, she referenced the 2012 Colorado theater shooting where 12 people were killed and 70 others injured.
“This bill would take the most basic steps to slow the proliferation of guns and ammunition, helping to prevent events like what we saw in Aurora, Colorado three years ago,” she said in a statement. “Congress can, and must do more to keep our families safe, and we’re urging them to do just that.”
The statement from the congresswoman’s office reveals that consumers can still purchase ammunition online, but federally licensed ammunitions dealers would need to confirm the identity of individuals by verifying a photo I.D. in-person.
“The bill would also require ammunition vendors to report any sales of more than 1,000 rounds within five consecutive days to the U.S. Attorney General, if the person purchasing ammunition is not a licensed dealer,” the statement reads.
“There are plenty of ways we monitor the purchase of firearms but when it comes to ammunition, regulation seems to stop,” Watson Coleman said at a press conference Monday, according to The Trentonian. “There is nothing keeping an individual intending to commit a large-scale atrocity from rapidly and anonymously stockpiling the needs to do so.”
Rep. Donald Payne, D-N.J., calls it “common-sense reform.”
“Too many lives have been lost as a result of senseless gun violence, and it’s well past time for Congress to enact sensible gun safety measures like reducing unchecked online ammunition purchases,” Payne, an original cosponsor of the bill, said. “This common-sense reform would save lives by depriving violent criminals of a means of anonymously amassing ammunition without proper scrutiny. As a cosponsor of this legislation, I am proud to join Congresswoman Watson Coleman in taking proactive steps to reduce gun violence and prevent another tragedy.”
The Brady Campaign to End Gun Violence and the Newtown Action Alliance have endorsed the bill.
Ah, yes, another “common-sense” bill that is anything but. BTT
This is clearly racist. The same rules should apply for voting.
Yeah, I like that. Face to face. Like some store clerk can tell if someone is psycho? If they’re legally allowed to purchase ammo in their state then what’s the problem?
Like most women and liberals, if I’m not being redundant, she’s afraid of guns. It’s as simple as that.
Rep. Donald Payne, D-N.J., calls it “common-sense reform.”
They want us disarmed.
Common sense tells me that’s not good.
Why not require a face-to-face purchase of a TV?
or a computer?
Or a tablecloth?
In fact, why not ban any internet purchasing in America!!
OH WAIT....
“Common Sense” is fun.... because it is in the “Eye of the Beholder” that defines it.
Likely she fears anything hard that points and fires a projectile(s)
My wife bought our boy a Sub2000 today
She digs all that
See the difference right
How about we require all Senators and Congressmen go face to face with all of the hookers they hire for tax purposes. Then make them report them on their returns as paying Social Security for their “employees”.
F the Rat
“Electronic” voting — let’s ban that FIRST.
And bring a freaking picture ID to the voting booth!
Report any purchase of over 1000 rounds within a five day period to the Department of Justice?
Do they intend to hire Indonesia to answer the phones calls?
This is another 17th Amendment-related issue imo. More on this shortly.
Regardless what FDR’s thug justices wanted everybody to believe about the scope of Congress's Commerce Clause powers when it wrongly decided Wickard v. Filburn in Congress’s favor in 1942 imo, FDR’s activist justices wrongly ignored that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate intrastate commerce.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
The reason that this bill is related to 17A is this. If 17A had not been ratified then I think that senators would do their duty to protect their respective states by killing the referenced bill.
Unfortunately, it is now at least possible, don’t know about probable, that the corrupt Senate could pass this bill.
The 17th Amendment needs to disappear, and a bunch of corrupt senators along with it.
They make all kinds of laws restricting us and freeing themselves.
I love it. :)
Hmmmmm, yeah, restricting ammo purchases to 73,000 rounds/year (from each WalMart), that's going to stop bat**** crazy mass killers.
This obviously will never see the light of day. Gun control must be a big part of Her Thighness' campaign platform
She not afraid of guns, she’s afraid of the people who own guns. Because they believe in freedom and the right to defend themselves against a despotic government.
A thousand rounds? That would be the equivalent of banks reporting ATM withdrawals of more than $500 in a week.
When they sell those cases of .223 or 7.62 at a great price & include free shipping with no sales tax, lot people scarf them up. And then it’s fun time at the range.
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