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Adan Salazar: In light of the Obama administration’s move to outlaw ammo for one of the nation’s most popular rifles, a look back at the president’s various promises to dismantle the Second Amendment is in order.
Today we learned that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives would be re-categorizing M855 AR-15 ammo as “armor piercing rounds,” despite the ammo containing lead which should exempt it from the law’s classification.
The ban would effectively dry up the ammo supply for the embattled, but still popular AR-15, and would be a devastating blow to gun owners and the Second Amendment, but the move isn’t unexpected from the Obama administration, who has consistently shown itself to be an enemy of gun rights.
1. Obama has a name for people who love the Second Amendment
In the run-up to the 2008 election, Obama had choice words regarding gun owners when he made a campaign stop in San Francisco, labeling people who support gun rights “bitter clingers.”
“You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them,” Obama said. “And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
2. ‘With or Without Congress’
During the 2014 State of The Union Address, Obama made it clear that he would “take action without Congress” to pass more strict gun control laws.