Ammo Registration Bill

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by richlevy

The status quo in the Southern United States is intact - guns and ammo are lightly regulated and sex toys are illegal.

So if you're going to cave anybody's head in with a 14" dildo, watch it!

[TheMercenary]

UG, it is just sterotyping, guns and ammo are highly regulated and sex toys can be purchased anywhere.

[Bullitt]

I'd really like to buy an M1 Garand this summer (to shoot semi frequently not as a collector's item), but have heard that .30-06 ammunition is fairly scarce and relatively expensive. Is this true in your experiences?

[TheMercenary]

Well, I think know for a fact that gun purchasing is WAY up and there was a huge spike right before Obama was sworn in. I think that it has all gone down a bit but it remains higher than usual. Now ammo is another area that has really taken a hit. IMHO a bigger hit than new gun purchases. You cannot find 7.62x39 anywhere and if you do it is twice what it cost in Nov 08. The thing about .30-06 is that it remains a hunting round so you will always get it but it will cost. And for plinking surplus or bulk ammo is much cheaper.

Look at page one and then slip to page 5 and after where the cheaper ammo was sold.

http://www.cheaperthandirt.com/ItemL...3&pagenumber=1

A thousand rounds of 7.62x39 use to be $200, now here it is $499.

http://www.cheaperthandirt.com/Searc...m=10&q=7.62x39

Why? Ammunition Accountability Act

http://gunowners.org/hr45ana.htm

http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/ammunition.asp

[sugarpop]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

UG, it is just sterotyping, guns and ammo are highly regulated and sex toys can be purchased anywhere.

Yes, we have what, 4 different stores in town that sell sex toys. yea us.

[capnhowdy]

There was one on Skidaway Rd. when I lived there 20 yrs ago.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Americans do not have a fundamental right to sexual privacy, a 2-1 decision of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said on Wednesday.

The split panel upheld an Alabama law -- nearly identical to one in Georgia -- that made the sale of sex toys a crime punishable by up to a year in prison.

She then went back to confront an unimpressed but entirely pleasant store owner who tried to explain to Ms. Crone all the different places on your body you can use a vibrator (the one’s not prohibited by law in Mississippi).

Obscenity law 43.23 states that a person is guilty of an offense if said person promotes or possesses with the intent to sell any obscene material or obscene device. Not all dildos, vibrators and other objects used for sex play are deemed obscene. Only those objects resembling the male or female genitalia are illegal sale items in Texas.

A sex toy ban has already happened in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Texas. South Carolina could be next on that list.

[TheMercenary]

I don't know where you get your information from but your last source is incorrect. There is no sex toy ban in Georgia, which automatically makes the rest of the information suspect.

[classicman]

From the link

(Statewide) May 19, 2006 - A sex toy ban has already happened in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Texas. South Carolina could be next on that list.

[glatt]

I've tried to research this on the web, and it's confusing. There are lots of news references to the Georgia Ban, but nothing that gives you the actual law. The closest I could find that links to the actual law is a legal article saying the law had been overturned in 2006 in This That and the Other Gift v. Cobb County, Ga., No. 04-16419 (11th Cir. Feb. 15, 2006.)

And from the ruling in that case:

A. Georgia’s Obscenity Statute
As emphasized by the defendants’ brief, the Georgia legislature enacted
O.C.G.A. § 16-12-80 with the “main purpose” of “advanc[ing] the government’s
interest in promoting public morality.” Toward that end, § 16-12-80 regulates the
distribution of obscene material, in relevant part, as follows:
(a) A person commits the offense of distributing obscene material
when he sells, lends, rents, leases, gives, advertises, publishes,
exhibits, or otherwise disseminates to any person any obscene
material of any description . . . .
. . .
(c) Any device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation
of human genital organs is obscene material under this Code section.
. . .
(e) It is an affirmative defense under this Code section that dissemination of
the material was restricted to:
(1) A person associated with an institution of higher learning,
either as a member of the faculty or a matriculated student,
teaching or pursuing a course of study related to such material;
or
(2) A person whose receipt of such material was authorized in
writing by a licensed medical practitioner or psychiatrist.
O.C.G.A. § 16-12-80.

Maybe they passed a new one.

[TheMercenary]

Let me clear this up for everybody. Sugarpop and I live in GA. I have lived here in 2 different cities since 1994. There never was and never has been a ban on the sale of sex toys of any kind since I have lived here and currently. The information is incorrect. Capiche?

I can't speak for the other states listed. Only for GA.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

There never was and never has been a ban on the sale of sex toys of any kind since I have lived here and currently. The information is incorrect. Capiche?

There's a difference between there being a ban, and the ban being enforced.

I just quoted the law for you. It was on the books. O.C.G.A. § 16-12-80

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by glatt

There's a difference between there being a ban, and the ban being enforced.

I just quoted the law for you. It was on the books. O.C.G.A. § 16-12-80

I don't know. I do hear what you are saying. As conservative and right as this bible beating state can be at times I find it hard to believe that an issue like this would not be enforced if it was current. Maybe it was overturned some place.

a very quick search finds this:

http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1143120308045

http://www.metrospirit.com/index.php...22910083496451

Coweta County, GA enacted a new ordinance this year.

The obscenity ordinance prohibits sale or distribution of obscenity, and prohibits anyone from “knowingly” selling, or possessing with the intent to sell, “any device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs.”

The county’s old ordinance specifically exempted condoms from being considered as a stimulation device. The new ordinance makes no such distinction, and would appear to apply to items such as ribbed condoms and various lubricants marketed as having a “warming” or “tingling” sensation....

A violation is punishable by up to six months in jail and/or a fine of up to $1,000.

http://www.times-herald.com/Local/Co...dinance-646015

[TheMercenary]

It will be an ongoing process of people making local ordinances and business owners getting a stay or injunction while appealing to the courts. I guess that is the way it is suppose to work. In the mean time all of the things are still readily available. But you know we still have a few dry counties in GA.