Sneaky Media with a side of Stupid Congress

[kanekutter05]

So I hopped on Facebook and at the top of the page is an article about James Holmes entitled "Holmes Showing Hostile Jail Behavior". So I click on it to read it, and these are the first few paragraphs:

Two federal lawmakers say they don't want anyone to ever be able to buy so much ammunition online again. This is after the movie theater shooting massacre in Aurora, Colorado that killed 12 and left 58 others injured.

Holmes is accused of carrying out the theater massacre in Colorado.

Here's what the bill would require:

- Only licensed dealers would be allowed to sell ammunition.
- The dealers would have to notify law enforcement within five days about any sale of more than 1,000 rounds to an unlicensed person.
- The proposal would also require unlicensed dealers to show a photo ID to buy ammunition which means they would have to make the purchase in person.

Colorado police said Holmes bought 6,000 rounds of ammunition online in the weeks before the shooting. Monday, the 24 year old was in court, charged with 142 counts.

Ok first off...how in the blue hell does this have ANY place in an article about Holmes' jail behavior?

2nd...what kind of bull is this bill?!?! They want law enforcement notified if you buy 1,000 rounds? Because that's clearly the correlation...people who buy 1,000 rounds or more of ammunition go on shooting sprees.

I don't know who introduced this bill (mainly because it 6am and I just work up to the smell of my dog shitting all over my kitchen and I'm not in the mood to go researching a bunch of stuff right now...but I was mad enough to start this thread) but I think there needs to be some calls to our reps offices today.

If this goes through...I guess we all better start learning how to lose a tail and how to sweep our houses for bugs. We'll all be labeled as domestic terrorists if we want to buy and sort of bulk ammo

[00tec]

They tried this, attached it to some cyber security bill- died in senate.

[BushMasterBoy]

Welcome the "new" boxes of 999 rounds...

[reno316]

2nd...what kind of bull is this bill?!?! They want law enforcement notified if you buy 1,000 rounds? Because that's clearly the correlation...people who buy 1,000 rounds or more of ammunition go on shooting sprees.

And, naturally, even such a bill, had it been in place, wouldn't have done a thing to stop him.

IIRC, he had a 100 round drum magazine that jammed while still roughly half-full, no?

So, he wouldn't have made a blip on the radar buying 100 rounds.

Morons. Every one of them.

Fire them all, I say.

[Ronin13]

So, he wouldn't have made a blip on the radar buying 100 rounds.

I thought about this. Limiting a one time purchase of ammo just means we have to buy, oh say 500 rounds at a time over the span of a few hours? Maybe I go one place and get 500, then go elsewhere for 500 more? I still get 1000 rounds and no one is the wiser. How does that do anything?

[KevDen2005]

So if you buy 900 rounds at a time then there is nothing that will be noted?

This is stupid.

[jreifsch80]

if they do end up passing this crap i would wish it was 1081 since i'm a 5.45 guy (they come in tins of 1080)

[Ridge]

Buy 999 rounds, get 1 free

[BushMasterBoy]

Next thing ya know they pass a law where everybody is injected with a RFID chip. You don't have the chip, your car wont start. You won't have to pay a toll road fee, you drive by and the chip allows the toll road authority to deduct the charge from you bank account. You want ammo online? You scan your chip into the new mouse reader on your home computer, and the system on the other side decides what you can buy according where you have been and what you have been doing lately.


So get back in line and get your RFID chip from DHS while you still can...or no ammo for you!


The above was written because my mood ring was blue.