Ten days after the horrible killing spree of orange haired wannabe lunatic James Holmes in Aurora Colorado, the first gun control bill has been thrown into the ring. The subject of the bill: online ammunition sales.
Holmes, the holder of a master’s degree and until a few months prior a medical student, legally purchased a number of firearms locally as well as 6000 rounds of ammunition via the internet.
The sponsors of the bill, Democratic Senators Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey and Representative Carolyn McCarthy of New York today announced what they call the Stop Online Ammunition Sales Act. The bill, if approved and signed by the President, will require ammunition sellers to have an FFL, and buyers to present a valid State-issued ID at purchase. This actually is not revolutionary and is often done already voluntarily. However, what would be new is a mandate to track all purchases and report the sale of more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition by a single buyer in a five-day period. This of course opens the back door to a central gun-database of legal gun owners, something long fought against by Second Amendment advocates since 1775.
Read more in my column at Firearms Talk.com
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Let me introduce myself. I am a bit of a conflict junkie. I am fascinated by war and warfare, assassination, personal protection and weaponry ranging from spud guns and flame throwers to thermonuclear bombs and soviet-trained Ebola monkeys. In short, if it’s violent or a tool to create violence it is kind of my thing.
I have written a few hundred articles on the dry encyclopedia side for such websites as History Times, Firearms Talk.com, GUNS.com, Suite 101 (where I am the contracted Feature Writer for Military History) and Combat Forums; as well as for print publications like England Expects, and Strike First Strike Fast. Several magazines such as Sea Classics, Military Historian and Collector, Mississippi Sportsman and Warship International have carried my pieces. Additionally I am on staff as a naval consultant and writer for Eye Spy Intelligence Magazine.
Currently I am working on several book projects, including a section in the upcoming Mississippi Encyclopedia (to be published by Ole Miss this summer), an alternative history novel about the US-German War of 1916, and a biography of Bennett Doty. My first novel, about the coming zombie apocalypse was released this Spring by Necro Publications and can be found at Amazon.com.
In my day job I am a contractor for the US federal government in what could best be described as the ‘Force Protection’ field. In this I am a certified Firearms, and less-than-lethal combat instructor.
