Another state in the United States is attempting to attack, this time Minnesota.

According to a report on the startribune.com, the state says that participating in online gambling within state boundaries is illegal and has responded accordingly.

"A division of the state Department of Public Safety that enforces gambling and alcohol laws said today that it has instructed 11 national and regional telephone and Internet service providers (ISPs) to block access by all Minnesota-based computers to nearly 200 online gambling websites," the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.

A state official says that the block won't be instantaneous and this latest was move serves as a warning shot of sorts.

"We are putting site operators and Minnesota online gamblers on notice and in advance," said John Willems, state director of the Alcohol and Gambling Enforcement Division.

"State residents with online escrow accounts should be aware that access to their accounts may be jeopardized and their funds in peril," he told the Star Tribune.

How feasible this plan is however is in question.

The Wire Act of 1961 prohibits the transmission of betting activity through wire communication but according to the register.co.uk, that pertains only to "common carriers."

However, ". . . it's doubtful AT&T, Comcast, Qwest Communications and many of the other ISPs receiving the order are legally considered common carriers," The Register went on to say.

"That term is usually reserved for utilities or businesses legally bound to carry all traffic over their networks."

It's not the first time troublesome, anti-online gambling legislation has made the rounds in the U.S.

The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement—which forbade financial institutions from processing online gambling transactions among other things—was passed in 2006 and one of the biggest complaints banks made was that trying to search for gambling transactions was like looking for the proverbial needle in the haystack.