The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives recently proposed banning the manufacture, sale or importation of .223-caliber ammunition, commonly used in the AR-15 and other general-purpose rifles. It has also recently been used in several kinds of handguns.
Obama is trying to justify the proposal by arguing that the M855 ball, the most widely used .233-caliber round, is “armor-piercing” and cannot be used in handguns, per the Gun Control Act of 1968 amended by Congress in 1986. He is also claiming that the ammunition in the AR-15 and similar rifles puts the lives of police officers at risk.
This logic is faulty. Because it has a traditional lead core with a steel tip, the M855 ball was originally exempted from the “armor-piercing” ammunition category it and has long been categorized as sporting ammunition.
Reclassifying the M855 will actually threaten more lives instead of saving them. Bob Owens at Bearing Arms smartly notes that banning the M855 would mean a return to the full-metal-jacketed 55-grain M193 round that NATO wanted to get away from in the 1970s because it was too “inhumane” for use against Soviet troops.
This executive order has no practical value whatsoever. It is nothing more than a silly attempt by Obama to flex his muscles. Since he failed to pass gun-control legislation through legal means, he has decided to abuse his office and engage in backdoor maneuvers to get his way.
The question is "why" ban the ammo beyond the fact that the president wants to metaphorically "flip off" the people who don't support his programs.
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Even though it is Twisted and Also a Violation of your Basic Civil Rights. By Banning a Specific type of Ammo (regardless or your basis for banning it). It will allow a "Precedent" to be set in which the government now has the Legal Right & Power To Ban any other kind of Ammo it Deems fit! Which, as we all know is a very slippery slope! Whose main design is to subvert the 2nd Amendment all together! After all, a gun that is made, but is also one in which you cannot legally own bullets for it, is just basically a "Club". Which would leave "Our" (yeah Right) Government and the Military the only people who would be able to own Ammo at All. hence preventing the people from exercising their Constitutional Rights. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security." So, basically they are admitting that they are screwed up, controlled by $$$ and have no care for "The Little People' whom they are supposed to represent & Protect! So, by simply banning one type of ammo, which as any law abiding gun owner knows, is not by definition as "Armor Piercing"It is the SLippery slope which will allow them to ban any other ammo, using various other reasons as a means to abn them and effectually making the guns they are used in useless!! Unless!!! Like any Smart, Thrifty & Law Abiding Gun owner Knows!! If you need to buy any sort of ammo for any gun in your collection!! You should buy in Bulk! Preferably 500-1000rds per purchase! So, I would like to know, once they ban the ammo, how do they plan to go about getting the previously purchased ammo back!!?! Without Violating our 4th Amendment which would "deprive us of Life, Liberty Happiness & Property without the due process of Law"! So,, I fear for the passage of this law. But I fear even more for the Foot Soldiers (The Police, and other LEO's) who are just doing their jobs and want to return home to their families at the end of each work day! Who will become the tools of the Government and forced to be the ones on the front line and made to do the Feds Dirty work. By going to some law abiding gun owners home and "Trying" ( I might add) to remove the previously purchased ammo from that home without due process!!Also, along without any additional bodily orifices which may be put there inadvertantly by the said homeowner who is simply protecting and standing up for his 4th Amendment!! Its a shame that our government will be using its own people to enforce laws that are unconstitutional to begin with. But that they themselves would not put themselves in harms way to enforce! But if these LEO's a re True "Oathkeepers" than it should be our government who should be in fear losing their cushy jobs & lifelong Medical Coverage. Simply because they passed a law that by any other means is considered Treason and Sedition
DeleteWhen does the order take effect?
ReplyDeleteIt looks like ATF is accepting comments on the proposal for the next thirty days:
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First it will be the .223 caliber and if Obama is not rained in, he will continue to ban more calibers before his term is up.
ReplyDeleteThis is an illegal order and is in defiance of the Constitution of the United States. Wake up America!
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