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07-24-2015, 07:47 AM
I just got a letter from GOA asking me to contribute to fight Obama's ITAR reg's and to send postcards to my legislators..etc.
As one not to blindly believe everything I'm told or hear, I am reading up on what the ITAR says.
GOA says: ITAR restricts our ability to "talk" about guns.
ITAR says: restricts the export of defense or technical data. I know by way of using the internet, that can be considered "export" as the internet is global, but it doesn't say we can't "talk" about guns.
GOA has a powerful statement here, and on the postcard it draws out some specifics, but then says "Making it a crime to talk about guns and ammunition is a blatant violation of the First and Second Amendments".....this sort of over-simplifies IMO.
I'll send those cards in, but I think GOA should not "dumb" down flat statements like using the word "talk" instead of words like "restrict communication". Semantics, probably, but it bothers me a bit.
Two cents...
As one not to blindly believe everything I'm told or hear, I am reading up on what the ITAR says.
GOA says: ITAR restricts our ability to "talk" about guns.
ITAR says: restricts the export of defense or technical data. I know by way of using the internet, that can be considered "export" as the internet is global, but it doesn't say we can't "talk" about guns.
GOA has a powerful statement here, and on the postcard it draws out some specifics, but then says "Making it a crime to talk about guns and ammunition is a blatant violation of the First and Second Amendments".....this sort of over-simplifies IMO.
I'll send those cards in, but I think GOA should not "dumb" down flat statements like using the word "talk" instead of words like "restrict communication". Semantics, probably, but it bothers me a bit.
Two cents...
As one not to blindly believe everything I'm told or hear, I am reading up on what the ITAR says.
GOA says: ITAR restricts our ability to "talk" about guns.
ITAR says: restricts the export of defense or technical data. I know by way of using the internet, that can be considered "export" as the internet is global, but it doesn't say we can't "talk" about guns.
GOA has a powerful statement here, and on the postcard it draws out some specifics, but then says "Making it a crime to talk about guns and ammunition is a blatant violation of the First and Second Amendments".....this sort of over-simplifies IMO.
I'll send those cards in, but I think GOA should not "dumb" down flat statements like using the word "talk" instead of words like "restrict communication". Semantics, probably, but it bothers me a bit.
Two cents...