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Ohio Wants eBayers to Post $50k Bond
MacDork writes "CNNMoney posted a short article this morning about new Ohio regulations set to become effective May 2 this year. If you are in the state and selling on eBay, you will need to pay $200 for a license and post a $50,000 bond or face possible fines and jail time. Getting the license also requires a one-year apprenticeship. When asked to which eBay users this bill applied, the bill's author, Larry Mumper responded with these very specific guidelines.... "It certainly will not apply to the casual seller on eBay, but might apply to anyone who sells a lot.""
There are legitimate reasons to sell on ebay, but a gun is for shooting people with (don't talk bullshit about hunting with handguns).
If no one can use ebay, it gets very hard to buy and sell things that not everyone wants to buy and impossible to run ebay scams.
If no one has guns, no one gets to shoot people.
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Damn, my RAM is full of llamas.
Unless it is SPECIFICALLY spelled out with a yearly income level generated by ebay auctions then this will apply to ALL ebay sellers in Ohio.
I strongly urge evbery Ohioian to write to their reps and ask that it be struck down until it is reworded to have very specific definitions.
these broadly worded laws, espically STATE laws are designed only to generate extra income for the state and to allow them to extort money out of it's citizens.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
They're highballing. The public will come back with "No, we want no regulation" and the politicians will settle somewhere in the middle, say a special online auction license where you pay a small percentage per year.
Then of course they'll use that as leverage in case they want to lean on sellers of particular items, especially around election time. "Look, my beloved voters, I signed the law that would revoke online auction licenses for people selling {guns,porn}. Vote for me!"
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So when are the US people going to depose their government?
Oh wait, they're not. They're too busy watching MTV and sticking it to 'da man' by downloading the occasional dodgy mp3 (ooh scary).
The only people who need guns are the army and (in exceptional cases) the police. Giving it to any fucker with a driving license is just asking for trouble.
a gun isn't just for shooting people with
god... I want that to be a gun manufacturer motto...
"Guns! Not just for shooting people anymore."
*yawn*
Well, there's a big difference since that is Switzerland and not USA. People here are fucking dimwits. Why do you think Bush got re-elected?
Not to mention that Switzerland has less of the filthy niggers and Pedros. That's a huge difference right there.
This is completely off-topic, but I haven't had my coffee yet and even the slightest reference to typical ignorant NRA dittohead blather is getting me upset. Yes, the Constitution use the words "right", "to", "bear", and "arms", but nobody ever seems to get the context right. The actual text is:
"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."
Specifically, most people choose to ignore the "well regulated militia" part. And yes, I own a shotgun for which I happily went through with the permit and waiting period. And, I'd happily attend any required periodic certification, if asked. Gun control isn't about taking guns away from people. It's about distributing them with the care due an instrument of death and maiming. Sure, anything can be used to kill, but a gun is solely a killing tool and doesn't lend itself easily to carving the Thanksgiving turkey. Self defense, sure -- but you never point a gun at anyone or anything without the intention or willingness to kill. I don't even know why this is an issue anymore. People are stupid.
Now to go get that coffee...
Most of the people who actively seek it are elitists. They are not concerned with violent crime that doesn't apply to them, what they want is to be able to regulate you with impunity. Sarah Brady for example said that we will never have socialism in America until we ban guns.
Human nature being what it is, cops too will start to lose respect for the people when they cannot fight back. If you think the police brutality rate is bad now, imagine what it will be like when any bad cop knows that if he wants to "have some fun" with a perp that only the hardened criminal is likely to have a gun. That perp could be you, and your crime could be effectively nothing as happens today.
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