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[sjvcon]

Anyone else read where there is an Executive Order either being contemplated or been signed (not sure which) that would make forums like this one illegal??? Something about discussion of firearms and ammunition being illegal without the permission of the FED. I just read about it briefly. Wasn't sure if there was someone who had read more it and could speak more to what it really means.

[stanley]

Here's a link to a short discussion on this topic..... Doesn't really give much more info regarding what it really means though.

 

http://www.coueswhitetail.com/forums/topic/58165-a-threat-to-gun-blogs-websites/

 

IMO, it will absolutely never happen (making 'gun talk' illegal...). There is really just no way it would happen, for many reasons.....

 

S.

[mattys281]

Seems like a pretty direct assault on the first amendment that'll never fly.

[roninflag]

no

[Havasuhunter]

When the government goes that far to limit freedom of speech there will be a revolution.

[Adicted]

If they make this forum illegal we will all have to meet up instead and drink beer and shoot or bows. So go ahead and ban it

[MT_Sourdough]

It is an effort to, on it's surface, to make it difficult to allow terrorist organizations from being able to distribute technical data via the internet. i,e. bomb making information.

It's like. a group of people bomb and kill a bunch of folk and it is discovered that the terrorists learned how to effectively make the bomb from instructions posted on the internet. Other folk respond with, "Why is it legal to teach terrorists how to make a bomb on the internet?"

There is some connectivity between bombs and bullets and I suspect in writing the proposed regulation on distribution of technical data over the internet, those authors took a liberal approach that broadened the regulation to include technical data about guns.

The whole scheme was revealed and immediately shut down largely on behalf of First Amendment grounds.