I think the Hon. Ms. Mink has something else in mind than mere ads. I can't "obtain" a gun at Turner's website anyway, however, so her Bill doesn't seem to have a practical effect, except to give the prosecutor another potential charge to stack. MacN On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, David Honig wrote:
At 03:37 PM 2/28/01 -0600, Mac Norton wrote:
Probably already prohibited, as a practical matter, under one or another provision of 18 USC 922. MacN
Nope.
The posting of commercial advertisements on the net is currently ok; see http://www.turners.com/engage/ads.php for instance.
This is another attempt to make the net lower-status than deadtrees.
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Aimee Farr wrote:
HR 726 [Feb. 26] To ban the use of the Internet to obtain or dispose, or offer to obtain or dispose of, a firearm. Rep. Patsy Mink (D-HI) http://www.house.gov/mink/
....... Unbeknown to the latter, Marks had already cracked General de Gaulle's private cypher in a spare moment on the lavatory.