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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines6/07/2015 11:07:48 am PDT

Another outrageous outrage bubbling up from the ammosexual Cauldron of Crazy:
NRA: Gun blogs, videos, web forums threatened by new Obama regulation

Commonly used and unregulated internet discussions and videos about guns and ammo could be closed down under rules proposed by the State Department, amounting to a “gag order on firearm-related speech,” the National Rifle Association is warning.

In updating regulations governing international arms sales, State is demanding that anyone who puts technical details about arms and ammo on the web first get the OK from the federal government — or face a fine of up to $1 million and 20 years in jail.

The predictable response of freepers (ie batshit hysteria).

Er, no. A reading of the actual proposal in the Federal Register makes it obvious that the proposed change affects only data that are not already in the public domain, specs for the Stealth bomber for example. The NRA blog and thousands of re-posts present a wholly misleading juxtaposition of quotes that invites the gullible reader to infer that the opposite is true, that this proposal would regulate material that is published and freely available in libraries and such.