Last week, we sounded the alarm on the dozen-plus new gun regulations that the newly-minted Eric Holder in a Skirt, Loretta Lynch, plans to impose. No, not via our legislators voting yea or nay, but by Barack Obama’s preferred method in his New America: Dictate by Bureaucrat. But what we didn’t know at the time we penned the first Second Amendment warning was that not only will anyone who’s ever had a bout with a mental issue anytime in their past be forever banned from owning a firearm, His Highness and his Merry Minions at the State Department will be blatantly trampling all over our First Amendment rights, too. How? By decreeing that no one can engage, online, in language that contains any reference to firearm tech. Yes. Really. And it’s worse than we thought. From Breitbart:

Even as news reports have been highlighting the gun control provisions of the Administration’s “Unified Agenda” of regulatory objectives, the Obama State Department has been quietly moving ahead with a proposal that could censor online speech related to firearms.

How is that, you might ask? Well, by Regulation Twister™, of course.

The administration is reworking the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). One of the many things regulated by ITAR are “technical data” tied to “defense articles.” This includes, but is not limited to, “detailed design, development, production or manufacturing information” about ammunition and firearms.

More specifically, this kind of “technical data” would be “blueprints, drawings, photographs, plans, instructions or documentation” related to ammunition and firearms.

While ITAR and its regulations have not been a concern in the past, as far as constraining or limiting “material posted on publicly available websites,” there are some within the current State Department arguing that “anything published online in a generally-accessible location has essentially been ‘exported,’” simply by virtue of being posted, and is therefore under the purview of ITAR.

Moreover, last week the State Department put forth a proposal “clarifying” how to handle releases containing “technical data” which are posted online or otherwise distributed into the “public domain.” Ultimately, the proposal would require those releasing “technical data” on ammunition or firearms to first seek government approval.

Yes. You read that right. We’d be required to ask permission from our Government Overseers on whether or not we could engage in our guaranteed First Amendment rights online.

Let that sink in…