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.
