That's true. I have been following this. here is what I have so far.....from another post by someone else.

It's happening again— President Obama is using his imperial pen and telephone to curb your rights and bypass Congress through executive action.

Even as news reports have been highlighting the gun control provisions of the Administration's "Unified Agenda" of regulatory objectives (see accompanying story), the Obama State Department has been quietly moving ahead with a proposal that could censor online speech related to firearms. This latest regulatory assault, published in the June 3 issue of the Federal Register, is as much an affront to the First Amendment as it is to the Second. Your action is urgently needed to ensure that online blogs, videos, and web forums dev**ed to the technical aspects of firearms and ammunition do not become subject to prior review by State Department bureaucrats before they can be published.

To understand the proposal and why it's so serious, some background information is necessary.

For the past several years, the Administration has been pursuing a large-scale overhaul of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), which implement the federal Arms Export Control Act (AECA). The Act regulates the movement of so-called "defense articles" and "defense services" in and out of the United States. These articles and services are enumerated in a multi-part "U.S. Munitions List," which covers everything from firearms and ammunition (and related accessories) to strategic bombers. The t***snational movement of any defense article or service on the Munitions List presumptively requires a license from the State Department. Producers of such articles and services, moreover, must register with the U.S. Government and pay a hefty fee for doing so.

Also regulated under ITAR are so-called "technical data" about defense articles. These include, among other things, "detailed design, development, production or manufacturing information" about firearms or ammunition. Specific examples of technical data are blueprints, drawings, photographs, plans, instructions or documentation.

In their current form, the ITAR do not (as a rule) regulate technical data that are in what the regulations call the "public domain." Essentially, this means data "which is published and which is generally accessible or available to the public" through a variety of specified means. These include "at libraries open to the public or from which the public can obtain documents." Many have read this provision to include material that is posted on publicly available websites, since most public libraries these days make Internet access available to their patrons.

The ITAR, however, were originally promulgated in the days before the Internet. Some State Department officials now insist that anything published online in a generally-accessible location has essentially been "exported," as it would be accessible to foreign nationals both in the U.S. and overseas.

With the new proposal published on June 3, the State Department claims to be "clarifying" the rules concerning "technical data" posted online or otherwise "released" into the "public domain." To the contrary, however, the proposal would institute a massive new prior restraint on free speech. This is because all such releases would require the "authorization" of the government before they occurred. The cumbersome and time-consuming process of obtaining such authorizations, moreover, would make online communication about certain technical aspects of firearms and ammunition essentially impossible.

Penalties for violations are severe and for each violation could include up to 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $1 million. Civil penalties can also be assessed. Each unauthorized "export," including to subsequent countries or foreign nationals, is also treated as a separate violation.

Gunsmiths, manufacturers, reloaders, and do-it-yourselfers could all find themselves muzzled under the rule and unable to distribute or obtain the information they rely on to conduct these activities. Prior restraints of the sort contemplated by this regulation are among the most disfavored regulations of speech under First Amendment case law.

But then, when did the U.S. Constitution ever deter Barack Obama from using wh**ever means are at his disposal to exert his will over the American people and suppress firearm ownership throughout the nation?

There will never be e******y because humankind is not created equally. Some are smarter, bigger, more athletic, cerebral, sexy, etc. the list is endless. However, I agree with Mr. Friedman, we are all capable of improving what we naturally have to our betterment. Entitlement will never gain e******y or betterment of any individual. The only things in nature I can quickly think of that have the property of attaining e******y is a liquid or a gas. Those two only seek their own levels with themselves but not with anything else I know of. Humans have the ability to force things to balance that would never happen in nature. In fact, we are going broke trying to force e******y in all facets of human life. Not possible.

At least have the intelligence and integrity to refer to it as OUR government. If OUR government is not doing what we want it to do, blaming other is a wimpy, cowardly way to respond. OUR constitution was designed to put us in charge of forming OUR government and keeping it on track to continue to improve. If it is not , quit whining and help fix it. OUR for government needs you help, not your blaming and whining and finger pointing in order for it to keep getting better. Get involved in identifying and solving problems or get the fuck out of the way and let the big folks make it right. Glaucon I have to agree with most of what you said here. If one is whining about how bad our government is, they do need to get off their asses and get to work changing it. Maybe some of Plato's teaching did sink in.