[119075] in Cypherpunks
Congress about to approve Net-gun advertising restrictions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Declan McCullagh)
Thu Oct 14 11:48:18 1999
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 11:27:17 -0400
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Message-Id: <19991014152836.WBFV24372@alaptop.hotwired.com>
Reply-To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
>http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,31824,00.html
>
> Shooting the Messengers?
> by Declan McCullagh (declan@wired.com)
>
> 3:00 a.m. 14.Oct.99.PDT
> WASHINGTON -- When a group of
> Montana parents needed to raise money
> to pay for their children's athletic
> programs this week, they decided to
> raffle off a Ruger rifle. In a message sent
> to local mailing lists, they announced,
> "The Missoula County Home School
> Athletic Association is sponsoring a Ruger
> M77 30-06 with a walnut stock and a 3x9
> Tasco."
>
> Such a posting could send the parents
> straight to prison unless their notice
> complied with Internet advertising
> restrictions added to the Senate version
> of the Juvenile Justice bill, according to
> some Second Amendment advocates.
>
> House and Senate committee staff are
> meeting this week to resolve the different
> versions of the crime bill, said a
> spokeswoman for the Senate Judiciary
> committee. "They're trying to get
> agreements on things. We're getting
> closer."
>
> "Basically, you will go to prison for one
> year for attempting to sell a firearm over
> the Internet if your email is pulled down
> by anyone under 18 or any 'prohibited
> person,'" says Mike Hammond, a
> consultant to Gun Owners of America and
> a former general counsel to the US
> Senate steering committee.
>
> [...]
>
>
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------
>POLITECH -- the moderated mailing list of politics and technology
>To subscribe: send a message to majordomo@vorlon.mit.edu with this text:
>subscribe politech
>More information is at http://www.well.com/~declan/politech/
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
