SALT LAKE CITY, UT - JANUARY 15: .223 AR-15 ammunition and a high capacity 30 round clip sits on the table at the "Get Some Guns & Ammo" shooting range on January 15, 2013 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Lawmakers are calling for tougher gun legislation after recent mass shootings at an Aurora, Colorado movie theater and at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. (Photo by George Frey/Getty Images) File photo of ammunition. (credit: George Frey/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON (CBSDC) — House Democrats are introducing legislation that will “place limits and safeguards on the online market for ammunition.”

Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-N.J., announced this week the Stop Online Ammunition Sales Act of 2015, which would require face-to-face purchases.

In a statement, she referenced the 2012 Colorado theater shooting where 12 people were killed and 70 others injured.

“This bill would take the most basic steps to slow the proliferation of guns and ammunition, helping to prevent events like what we saw in Aurora, Colorado three years ago,” she said in a statement. “Congress can, and must do more to keep our families safe, and we’re urging them to do just that.”

The statement from the congresswoman’s office reveals that consumers can still purchase ammunition online, but federally licensed ammunitions dealers would need to confirm the identity of individuals by verifying a photo I.D. in-person.

“The bill would also require ammunition vendors to report any sales of more than 1,000 rounds within five consecutive days to the U.S. Attorney General, if the person purchasing ammunition is not a licensed dealer,” the statement reads.

“There are plenty of ways we monitor the purchase of firearms but when it comes to ammunition, regulation seems to stop,” Watson Coleman said at a press conference Monday, according to The Trentonian. “There is nothing keeping an individual intending to commit a large-scale atrocity from rapidly and anonymously stockpiling the needs to do so.”

Rep. Donald Payne, D-N.J., calls it “common-sense reform.”

“Too many lives have been lost as a result of senseless gun violence, and it’s well past time for Congress to enact sensible gun safety measures like reducing unchecked online ammunition purchases,” Payne, an original cosponsor of the bill, said. “This common-sense reform would save lives by depriving violent criminals of a means of anonymously amassing ammunition without proper scrutiny. As a cosponsor of this legislation, I am proud to join Congresswoman Watson Coleman in taking proactive steps to reduce gun violence and prevent another tragedy.”

The Brady Campaign to End Gun Violence and the Newtown Action Alliance have endorsed the bill.