That is why it is extremely disturbing that AOL has adopted a policy that treats guns and ammunition the same as child pornography and pedophilia. If you try to buy or sell live ammo from your AOL account you will be monitored and eventually you will be warned and if you don't cease and desist, then your account will be closed. We have placed a note of this incident on your account history and consider this a first warning. A second occurrence will result in termination of your account with no chance of reactivation. AOL has made this policy arbitrarily and yet will not explain it to its subscribers.
Child pornography is illegal.
Guns and ammunition are protected under the Second Amendment. Yet AOL chooses to treat the two identically by refusing to allow any one of its subscribers to engage in his Constitutional right to keep and bear arms. In doing so, of course, AOL has followed in the path of a host of smaller Internet Service Providers who have the same policy. When the Constitution provides that a practice is legal and yet someone hinders our ability to exercise that practice, that someone is setting himself up as an arbiter of our rights. Well, of course, they are a private business and they can adopt whatever practice they wish.