HR 726: Ban on Internet firearm trading..."obtain, dispose, offer to obtain or dispose"

[Mac Norton]

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:
> >
> >> http://thomas.loc.gov
> >> 
> >> 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.