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In the discussion thread: Obama Will 'Evaluate' Bill Limiting Online Ammunition Sales, White House Says [View all]

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Tue Jul 31, 2012, 12:08 PM

NickB79 (9,499 posts)

64. For ONLINE purchases? Do people understand how the Internet works anymore?

Or do these politicians still think it's a series of tubes or something?

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109 replies	Author	Time	Post
Obama Will 'Evaluate' Bill Limiting Online Ammunition Sales, White House Says [View all]	onehandle	Jul 2012	OP
Why do we want to shave off much needed votes. Amazing.	Mojorabbit	Jul 2012	#1
Apparently we have more votes than we need	kctim	Jul 2012	#2
How many people who need 6,000 rounds of ammunition are going to vote Democratic.	onehandle	Jul 2012	#3
I know a boatload of them. nt	Mojorabbit	Jul 2012	#4
6,000 rounds of ammunition to a real Democrat?	JDPriestly	Jul 2012	#17
They'll do exactly the same thing as they'd do with 1 bullet, 6000 times over	petronius	Jul 2012	#22
Aye, he is not a TRUE Scotsman! nt	NickB79	Jul 2012	#40
Stop peeking up the kilt! nt	Remmah2	Jul 2012	#59
'Tis a grand bit of lyric...	discntnt_irny_srcsm	Aug 2012	#97
I was thinking of the same lyrics.	Remmah2	Aug 2012	#98
I just can't help smiling...	discntnt_irny_srcsm	Aug 2012	#100
I'm a real Democrat	calmeco702	Jul 2012	#54
What is a "real" Democrat?	Remmah2	Jul 2012	#58
I Doubt It. (nt)	Paladin	Jul 2012	#32
40 percent of Dems are armed	Mojorabbit	Jul 2012	#45
And I'm sure everyone that you know who was old enough voted for McGovern, too.	friendly_iconoclast	Aug 2012	#88
Can you define "boatload"?	lunatica	Aug 2012	#92
I buy in those amounts.	hack89	Jul 2012	#6
I should imagine that you could get an exemption.	JDPriestly	Jul 2012	#18
To what end?	hack89	Jul 2012	#30
Yet you could still buy as much as you do now	lunatica	Aug 2012	#93
It would cost me hundreds of dollars.	hack89	Aug 2012	#94
First off I'm not for banning guns	lunatica	Aug 2012	#99
Because such a system would cost billions to set up and run	hack89	Aug 2012	#101
Billions? Really?	lunatica	Aug 2012	#102
Spend the money on mental health care, smoking cessation, cancer research, etc	hack89	Aug 2012	#105
I would spend the money doing both	lunatica	Aug 2012	#106
It would be at the bottom of my list	hack89	Aug 2012	#107
We've already tried it, it didn't work.	X_Digger	Aug 2012	#108
Thanks for the pdf file	lunatica	Aug 2012	#109
Yes, and those are people who "need" 6,000 rounds and "need" to so anonymously.	mbperrin	Jul 2012	#10
There is no "anonymously".	ManiacJoe	Jul 2012	#42
Yes, and a box of 100 is the smallest. Please	mbperrin	Jul 2012	#49
You must have misread where I said that a case is the SECOND smallest	ManiacJoe	Jul 2012	#57
I had 23 guns stolen in 9 different burglaries from 1983-1986.	mbperrin	Jul 2012	#68
Some validity, absolutely.	ManiacJoe	Jul 2012	#69
They were stored in the five different gun safes that they were inherited in.	mbperrin	Jul 2012	#70
Damn. Those guys were serious!	ManiacJoe	Jul 2012	#71
No. We're at ground zero here for oilfield theft. $20 million last year	mbperrin	Jul 2012	#76
What's wrong with saving money?	hack89	Jul 2012	#62
Need really has nothing to do with it	calmeco702	Jul 2012	#55
.22 ammo comes in 5000 round cases,other	Peepsite	Jul 2012	#16
I have twice that in my closet, and I voted for Obama. nt	NickB79	Jul 2012	#20
If I count up all my calibers, I probably have close to 10k.	X_Digger	Jul 2012	#28
A ton of them, including me.	X_Digger	Jul 2012	#27
I buy most of my ammunition in full cases	slackmaster	Jul 2012	#48
"Ignore the gun psychos, onehandle. Let them fear their own shadows"	friendly_iconoclast	Aug 2012	#87
Tell you what, go down to the store	nadinbrzezinski	Jul 2012	#78
"anonymously" online.. snort	X_Digger	Jul 2012	#80
Ask your fire dept.	nadinbrzezinski	Jul 2012	#81
And this fire hazard has exactly what to do with "anonymous" sales?	X_Digger	Aug 2012	#82
I hope you do not have one	nadinbrzezinski	Aug 2012	#83
But he only used about 100 rnds in the shooting....	virginia mountainman	Jul 2012	#5
Ah but imagine if he'd only been able to buy small amounts	4th law of robotics	Jul 2012	#8
Frankly, I don't want my mail carrier or my UPS guy carrying	JDPriestly	Jul 2012	#19
What is a non-ridiculous amount for a mail carrier to carry?	4th law of robotics	Jul 2012	#23
Why not? What harm is there?	NickB79	Jul 2012	#26
Please do educate us in the science behind that statement.	AtheistCrusader	Jul 2012	#35
My UPS carrier delivered 88 pounds of ammunition to me once	slackmaster	Jul 2012	#37
Just like the Assault Weapons Ban.	Dr_Scholl	Jul 2012	#51
Bingo	4th law of robotics	Jul 2012	#60
Pssst....	discntnt_irny_srcsm	Aug 2012	#96
Does the NRA now recommend that mass murderers limit themselves to 100 rounds now?	mbperrin	Jul 2012	#11
While we are at it, let's get rid of the pointless 1934 law	nadinbrzezinski	Jul 2012	#79
Exactly...	discntnt_irny_srcsm	Aug 2012	#84
I forgot the sarcasm tag	nadinbrzezinski	Aug 2012	#85
Hi	discntnt_irny_srcsm	Aug 2012	#86
+++++++++++++++++++	MindMover	Jul 2012	#7
wasnt this tried already?	bossy22	Jul 2012	#9
Obama believes "After my election I have more flexibility" but will he repudiate his earlier promise	jody	Jul 2012	#12
I could see this presidential election slipping away on gun control... be careful Mr. Prez...n/t	Moltisanti	Jul 2012	#13
More likely to negatively affect congressional makeup. n/t	PoliticAverse	Jul 2012	#14
Ya know, now that I think about it the constitution doesnt grant a right to ammo. nt	cstanleytech	Jul 2012	#15
Actually, it does if the Supreme Court is to be listened to	NickB79	Jul 2012	#24
Yes but I am speaking of this current court.	cstanleytech	Jul 2012	#34
No, the Constitution doesn't grant ANY rights whatsoever	slackmaster	Jul 2012	#25
I've always wondered why	Missycim	Jul 2012	#73
It's a very common and IMO very disturbing misunderstanding of the relationship between government	slackmaster	Jul 2012	#74
You're right! The constitution doesn't grant any rights.	X_Digger	Jul 2012	#31
Why? I could go to the nearest Walmart and buy this much	NickB79	Jul 2012	#21
When you clear out the Walmart	Peepsite	Jul 2012	#29
Oh Noes!	bongbong	Jul 2012	#33
All this means is more $$$$$ for the online ammo vendors.	-..__...	Jul 2012	#36
Reid isn't stupid, thank God.	NickB79	Jul 2012	#41
I don't understand the "anonymously" part. I've never been able to purchase anything anonymously on	truthisfreedom	Jul 2012	#38
It's just a lie, intended to create an emotional reaction	slackmaster	Jul 2012	#39
Every place I've ordered ammo from required a picture ID	NickB79	Jul 2012	#43
the bill is written that the ID must be shown in person... n/t	Moltisanti	Jul 2012	#44
For ONLINE purchases? Do people understand how the Internet works anymore?	NickB79	Jul 2012	#64
it is written that way to prevent online purchases... n/t	Moltisanti	Jul 2012	#72
So a defacto ban then.	NickB79	Aug 2012	#104
works great if a thief steals a wallet with driver's license & credit card	wordpix	Jul 2012	#53
The same could be said of pretty much anything on Ebay or Amazon.	NickB79	Jul 2012	#65
The only effective gun regulation would be to add semi-auto guns to the list of class II firearms	Sgent	Jul 2012	#46
Politically impossible yet totally sensible.	Ash_F	Jul 2012	#56
Yes, totally sensible to ban the most common rifles in America	NickB79	Jul 2012	#66
You don't know what title II firearms are, do you?	Ash_F	Aug 2012	#89
A de facto ban is still a ban. nt	hack89	Aug 2012	#91
Yes, I do actually	NickB79	Aug 2012	#103
This won't pass in an election year, anyway. This is for next year. If he wins. nt	Honeycombe8	Jul 2012	#47
So we're going to ban something that doesn't happen anyway.	JoeyT	Jul 2012	#50
A bunch of smoke	era veteran	Jul 2012	#52
Political suicide. Have we forgotten 1994???	Odin2005	Jul 2012	#61
A lot of your anti-Clinton friends have died since then, though...eom	Kolesar	Aug 2012	#90
i'm a strong supporter of gun control, but we have other pressing issues	samsingh	Jul 2012	#63
Translation, give me time to review the polling numbers	happyslug	Jul 2012	#67
Second term, you make a move on gun control. Election year this will cost	sarcasmo	Jul 2012	#75
No it won't	Kolesar	Jul 2012	#77
Right, republicans won't vote twice	JustABozoOnThisBus	Aug 2012	#95

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