It’s Back! Legislation to Ban Online Ammo Sales Reintroduce

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At least since 2015, Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) has spearheaded efforts to prohibit the sale of ammunition online.

Last month, Rep. Coleman reintroduced the Stop Online Ammunition Sales Act with the assistance of co-sponsor Rep. Kweisi Mfume (MD-7).

As with prior iterations of this bill, it would, as the NRA-ILA observed, implement all of the following:

  • FORCE you to submit a photo ID in person every time you purchase any ammunition;
  • REPORT you to Biden’s anti-gun U.S. Attorney General if you purchase more than 1,000 rounds within a five-day period;
  • REGISTER ammunition buyers like you in a database maintained by Biden’s bureaucrats at the Department of Justice.

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“Day in and day out men and women lose their lives at the hands of gun violence and the only response from Republicans has been moments of silence and continued inaction,” said Watson Coleman. 

“The Stop Online Ammunition Sales Act is one step in the right direction to slowing the proliferation of guns and ammunition,” she continued. “Americans did not send us to Washington to mourn them when it is our job to do everything we can as federal legislators to protect them.”

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GunsAmerica reached out to Alan Gottlieb, the founder of the Second Amendment Foundation for comment.

Gottlieb was critical of the one-sidedness of legislation in that it presupposes all ammunition sold online ends up in the hands of criminals.

“Rep. Coleman’s quote should have been, ‘Day in and day out men and women save their lives with ammunition they have bought online and the only response from Democrats is to call for bans on the sale of ammunition,'” said Gottlieb in an email.

Additional cosponsors of the bill include Reps. Jake Auchincloss (MA-04), Andre Carson (IN-07), Madeleine Dean (PA-04), Suzan DelBene (WA-01), Glenn Ivey (MD-04), Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA-37), Barbara Lee (CA-12), Betty McCollum (MN-04), Eleanor Holmes Norton (DC-At Large), Donald Payne (NJ-10), and Mike Quigley (IL-05).

The Stop Online Ammunition Sales Act has been referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. 

Stay tuned for updates.

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