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Firing Back: Shootout Over Ammo Ban Gets Serious -Major Effort to ‘Stop the Administration’s Executive Overreach Again’
The AR-15 rifle is one of the most popular firearms in the U.S. for target shooting and hunting.
Leo Hohmann / WND
President Obama’s drive to ban a popular form of ammunition used in the AR-15 and other rifles is drawing new fire from conservative groups representing gun owners as well as members of Congress.
A lawsuit has been threatened by the Second Amendment Foundation, which says the ploy is a backdoor attempt to do what the administration has failed to do through legislation — ban the AR-15.
But the battle is heating up on both sides of the issue in Congress.
Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., has sent a letter to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or ATF, demanding an explanation for the proposed ban. Goodlatte’s letter opposing the ban has the support of 238 House members. He called the ban “preposterous.”
Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, D-N.Y., a proponent of efforts to curb “gun violence,” is circulating a letter to members in support of the bureau’s bid to classify the 5.56mm M855 round as “armor piercing” and take it off the market, the Washington Examiner reported.
“It is prudent to consider the likely use of ammunition in these non-sporting handguns, and the danger they present to law enforcement officers and our communities,” Maloney said in the letter.
Maloney fought to ban the AR-15 rifle and similar weapons in a failed attempt back in 2013. Conservatives see the latest move by the Obama administration as a sneaky attempt to do the same thing, rendering the weapons effectively useless by removing ammunition from the market.
Read more at WND:
http://www.wnd.com/2015/03/firing-back-shootout-over-ammo-ban-gets-serious/
They will never stop the ammo!!! The American people know how too make it, how too shape it, how too load it, and how too get hold of lead. I know of many Re-Loader people who re-load a lot of peoples rounds. I saw a video a couple years ago of a young man who made a shotgun out of a Staple gun, and piping!! LOL How are they gonna stop that! Answer: They cant! Americans are Enguitive or however thats spelled, and creative, We love too make things, and always try too make stuff out of nothing. LOL just ask someone who makes Potato Cannons lol. Obama isnt going too stop nothing!!! He cant control 350,000,000 people who invent things!!!! Ive heard of things people have told me that are interesting, and harmless that [people have made for fun for thier kids. People are even making their own shell casings out of nothing!!! Their not going too stop anything!, if anything the more they move too stop guns the more people dig in deeper and deeeper and deeeeeper!