BATF working on banning M855 223 ammo
Saw a post from the NRA on this - BATF is calling it armor piercing pistol ammo since there are now 223 pistols.
It was always considered AP, but ATF exempted it
by Miles 
, CIVITATES AMERICAE, Saturday, February 14, 2015, 16:26 (3575 days ago) @ stonewalrus
edited by Miles, Saturday, February 14, 2015, 17:45
due to 'Sporting Purposes'.
They want to re-regulate it and delete it's sporting use exemption.
The are accepting comments on the proposed rule until the middle of March.
I think it's partly due to Da Won not wanting all the M855 ammo at best, or just demiled bullets, at worst, that's being replaced with M855A1 to hit the surplus market.
Of course, the also means that M855A1 will be classed as AP and we'll never see it on the market as well.
We may have Uncle over a barrel on this one. The bullet does NOT meet the statuary definition of an AP bullet because of it's lead core.
The next 23 months are going to be more interesting than we can possibly imagine.
Old Chinese curses work.
BATF working on banning M855 223 ammo
by Cherokee 
, Medina, Ohio, Saturday, February 14, 2015, 18:26 (3575 days ago) @ stonewalrus
Who is "Da Won" ? Who gets to provide comments on the proposed rule change ?
'Da Won' ? Hez Da Won! Da Only! Messiah to hiz peoplez!
by Miles , CIVITATES AMERICAE, Saturday, February 14, 2015, 21:04 (3575 days ago) @ Cherokee
Obumma hisself!
“Framework for Determining Whether Certain Projectiles are ‘Primarily Intended for Sporting Purposes’ Within the Meaning of 18 U.S.C. 921(a)(17)(c)”,
Here's the method for comments from the horse's a......mouth.
How to comment – from the BATFE
ATF will carefully consider all comments, as appropriate, received on or before March 16, 2015, and will give comments received after that date the same consideration if it is practical to do so, but assurance of consideration cannot be given except as to comments received on or before March 16, 2015. ATF will not acknowledge receipt of comments. Submit comments in any of three ways (but do not submit the same comments multiple times or by more than one method):
ATF email: APAComments@atf.gov
Fax: (202) 648-9741.
Mail: Denise Brown, Mailstop 6N-602, Office of Regulatory Affairs, Enforcement Programs and Services, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, 99 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20226: ATTN: AP Ammo Comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Denise Brown, Enforcement Programs and Services, Office of Regulatory Affairs, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, U.S. Department of Justice, 99 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20226; telephone: (202) 648-7070.
I would add what one bloggers has posted on her board, and I agree with:
However, please do not bother to comment if you cannot express your thoughts clearly and in a well-reasoned, somewhat spell-checked fashion. "OBMA MUSLIM FUKKR MOLAN LEBE! Come n get em! SHALL NOT BE ENFRINGED, MF'ER!" is unlikely to impress (or scare) anybody.
As the great Jewish bandito warrior poet spoke from his bathtub, "When it's time to shoot, shoot; don't talk." The corollary to that is "When it's time to talk, talk; don't shoot your mouth off."
Thanks, who I thunk - I will give comments some thought
by Cherokee , Medina, Ohio, Saturday, February 14, 2015, 21:56 (3575 days ago) @ Miles
nm
:-) Well said...ALL of it!
by Rob Leahy , Prescott, Arizona, Saturday, February 14, 2015, 22:22 (3575 days ago) @ Miles
We need to contact our local Representatives that call themselves "Law Makers" and insist that they make a law to ban the feds from paying GIs & contractors to destroy the people's property. It needs to be sold as surplus.
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