The HSUS says these magazines promote illegal activity with their advertisements for cockfighting knives, cockfighting pits and birds.

Amazon.com defends itself citing freedom of speech issues.

The HSUS says that freedom of speech does not protect criminal conduct and they point out that federal law bans the shipment of publications containing "commercial speech" for the purpose of promoting or "in any other manner furthering" animal fighting. Second, the provision Amazon.com is violating was made a felony crime when President Bush signed into law the Federal Animal Fighting Prohibition Enforcement Act of 2007. And, third, it is now a federal felony to buy or sell the cockfighting knives and gaffs advertised in the animal fighting publications sold by Amazon.com.

For more information on the HSUS fight against Amazon.com and to read a summary of arguments, the amended legal complaint, the words of Amazon.com and more, go to
http://hsus.org/hsus_field/animal_fighting_the_final_round/recent_activities/amazoncom_summary.html.