Aliantha;540037 wrote:Yeah...that's true. In fact one of my cousins used to make gunpowder out of charcole and baking powder and something else. Can't remember what now.
You'd still need to get the shot though.
monster;540194 wrote:Are more innocent people or more felons killed by guns wielded by civilians?
(not a leading/loaded question, just curiosity if figures are known....)
capnhowdy;540254 wrote:I wonder how they propose to stop the 'other' countries from manufacturing/selling unregistered ammo?
TheMercenary;540323 wrote:I can see your point. Sort of like the gay marriage issue in Calif that all the libs where jumping on as an issue?
richlevy;540308 wrote:
The status quo in the Southern United States is intact - guns and ammo are lightly regulated and sex toys are illegal.:right:
TheMercenary;550997 wrote:UG, it is just sterotyping, guns and ammo are highly regulated and sex toys can be purchased anywhere.
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.
(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.
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.
TheMercenary;551518 wrote: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?
glatt;551553 wrote: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;551557 wrote:
a very quick search finds this:
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1143120308045
glatt;551568 wrote:I posted that link like 4 posts above. It backs up what I'm telling you.
There was a law on the books as recently as 3 years ago, but a court overturned it. Don't know if there is a new state law, but some counties are passing their own laws.
I'm not supposed to use my firm's search services for personal use, so I can't look it up on Lexis-Nexis.
ZenGum;551882 wrote:Best thread drift ever!
I have heard about various dildo bans in the bible belt states. I always thought you could contest it under the "pursuit of happiness" clause of the Declaration.
If that fails, try it as the "pursuit of a-penis".
TheMercenary;555541 wrote:I believe they plan to tag powder.
We therefore conclude that the right to keep and bear arms is “deeply rooted in this Nation’s history and tradition.” Colonial revolutionaries, the Founders, and a host of commentators and lawmakers living during the first one hundred years of the Republic all insisted on the fundamental nature of the right. It has long been regarded as the “true palladium of liberty.” Colonists relied on it to assert and to win their independence, and the victorious Union sought to prevent a recalcitrant South from abridging it less than a century later. The crucial role this deeply rooted right has played in our birth and history compels us to recognize that it is indeed fundamental, that it is necessary to the Anglo-American conception of ordered liberty that we have inherited.