5.56 / .223 BATFE ammo ban halted

M885 Round, 5.56 mm (.223)Only one reason: because of pushback.

Of dissension and pushback and protest and writings and objection in the public venue.

Which is why, for example, the current US administration wishes to clamp down on your individual First Amendment and Second Amendment rights.

Because, without the Second Amendment, there is no such thing as a First Amendment.

This I fervently believe.  As a cop for 41 years and with my concomitant beliefs, I have been quantified as a terrorist — by my federal government — because I believe in our foundational documents to include the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

Additionally, I am an Oathkeeper.

I revel in my classification as a terrorist because I believe in our foundational documents.  All others are nothing more than pretenders to the throne and above.

Including Barack Hussein Obama, who has an incredibly massive disregard for our national laws.

From UPINews.com:

ATF says it won’t proceed with 5.56mm ammo ban

by Doug G. Ware

WASHINGTON, March 10 (UPI) — After public backlash to a proposal two weeks ago, the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives on Tuesday stepped away from a proposal to outlaw the sale of armor-piercing 5.56mm ammunition.

Please see my posts here and here.

After announcing the proposal to change the bullet’s exemption status, the bureau solicited public opinion on the matter. Tuesday, in a two-paragraph news release, the agency said it will “not at this time seek to issue a final framework” for the ban — due to the largely critical response from the public.

“Although ATF endeavored to create a proposal that reflected a good faith interpretation of the law and balanced the interests of law enforcement, industry, and sportsmen, the vast majority of the comments received to date are critical of the framework,” the bureau said, adding that some of the comments raised issues that warrant further examination.

Common sense won out.  Temporarily.

Trust that Leftists are coming for your firearms.

If they are not now successful, they will never give up.

Plain and simple.

In any way possible.

BZ

 

Obama: eliminating 5.56 mm rounds

M885 Round, 5.56 mm (.223)In a naked attempt to eliminate the most common American long gun extant: the AR-15 rifle chambered in 5.56 mm caliber.

And let there be no mistake.

Why are all of these issues and topics being pushed and steamrollered all at once?

I submit: easy.  Because the current Obama Administration and what the Leftists believe will be the next Clinton Administration are in the process of, yes, fundamentally transforming this nation into what they believe will be, finally, the new global paradigm of Socialism.

Each Socialist regime believes that it can “do” Socialism much better than their predecessor — if only they were given the opportunity.  Never mind that Socialism has never worked for any country at any time in the entire history of this planet.

Obama and fellow Leftist Demorats believe they can “do” Socialism better than anyone else — despite the fact that Socialism isn’t working for Europe.

Question: what do you call doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results?

Of course you know that answer.

From the WashingtonExaminer.com:

Obama to ban bullets by executive action, threatens top-selling AR-15 rifle

by Paul Bedard

As promised, President Obama is using executive actions to impose gun control on the nation, targeting the top-selling rifle in the country, the AR-15 style semi-automatic, with a ban on one of the most-used AR bullets by sportsmen and target shooters.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives this month revealed that it is proposing to put the ban on 5.56 mm ammo on a fast track, immediately driving up the price of the bullets and prompting retailers, including the huge outdoors company Cabela’s, to urge sportsmen to urge Congress to stop the president.

The question is: will Congress do it?  And will they have the cojones to actually move against the president’s imperial actions via BATFE?

“The Obama administration was unable to ban America’s most popular sporting rifle through the legislative process, so now it’s trying to ban commonly owned and used “ammunition through regulation,” said Chris W. Cox, executive director of the NRA-ILA, the group’s policy and lobby shop. “The NRA and our tens of millions of supporters across the country will fight to stop President Obama’s latest attack on our Second Amendment freedoms.”

At issue is so-called “armor-piercing” ammunition, an exemption for those bullets mostly used for sport by AR-15 owners, and the recent popularity of pistol-style ARs that use the ammo.

This AP ammunition, because it was (past tense) so plentiful, is popular with American shooters.  You’ll notice, Leftists, per the top photo, these are not “dum-dum” or “hollow point” rounds.

The inexpensive 5.56 M885 ammo, commonly called green tips, have been exempt for years, as have higher-caliber ammunition that also easily pierces the type of soft armor worn by police, because it’s mostly used by target shooters, not criminals. The agency proposes to reclassify it as armor-piercing and not exempt.

Please read the rest of the article here.

This is, frankly, an excuse for the proverbial “foot-in-the-door” trick.  The goal?  To chip away at the Second Amendment in the US Bill of Rights.

Why the push to regulate the internet?  Why the push to eliminate firearms?

It’s all about control and the elimination of pushback, opposition to policies that people believe to be Socialist in nature.  Eliminate the Second Amendment and you can readily eliminate the First Amendment.

I’m a cop; at least for a few more months until I retire.  And there isn’t a rifle round that already won’t go through my vest, from .223 to .308 and most all points in between.  How about some graphics?

GUN CONTROL Gun StatsObama knows full well: he who controls the ammunition, in truth, controls the firearm.

If you can’t eliminate the firearms, eliminate their ability to shoot.

BZ

 

Newtown families sue Bushmaster

Barbara J. MattsonAnd they will not win.

Suing the gun manufacturer — any gun manufacturer — following a shooting is akin to suing the manufacturer of the tap that poured the beer that the intoxicated driver drank before plowing into your sister.  Or the manufacturer of the automobile.

This all stems from the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14th of 2012, where Adam Lanza shot and killed 20 children and 6 adults.  Lanza utilized the Bushmaster XM-15 rifle (see above), along with a Glock 20SF in 10mm and a Sig Sauer P226 in 9mm.

At his time of death (by suicide), 20-year-old Adam Lanza stood 6’0″ tall and weighed 112 pounds.  That one stat bespeaks volumes.  Adam Lanza killed his 52-year-old mother Nancy in their large and expansive home prior to leaving for the school.  All the weapons used were purchased lawfully in the State of Connecticut.

Let me repeat that for the ignorant in the nation: all the weapons used by Adam Lanza at Sandy Hook were purchased lawfully in the State of Connecticut by Nancy Lanza.

Initially, from FoxNews.com:

Families of Newtown shooting victims sue gunmaker, seller

The families of nine of the 26 people killed and a teacher wounded two years ago at the Sandy Hook Elementary School filed a lawsuit Monday against the manufacturer, distributor and seller of the rifle used in the shooting.

The negligence and wrongful death lawsuit, filed in Bridgeport Superior Court, asserts that the Bushmaster AR-15 rifle should not have been made publicly available because it was designed for military use and is unsuited for hunting or home defense.

And, like every other media conglomeration in this nation and others, Fox have their facts wrong.  The Bushmaster is not an AR-15.  Bushmaster is owned by Remington (and moreover, by the Freedom Group Family of Companies) which does not manufacture the AR-15; Colt does.

“The AR-15 was specifically engineered for the United States military to meet the needs of changing warfare,” attorney Josh Koskoff said in a release. “In fact, one of the Army’s specifications for the AR-15 was that it has the capability to penetrate a steel helmet.”

In addition to Bushmaster, the defendants are Camfour, a firearm distributor, and Riverview Gun Sales, the East Windsor store where the gunman’s mother purchased the Bushmaster rifle in 2010.

Again, incorrect information.  The Colt AR-15 was a derivative from the original Eugene Stoner design at ArmaLite (hence the AR in AR-15).  The firearm and the round are separate.

The .223 round was truly a step down from the standard WWII rounds utilized in military rifles bored out, commonly, to .45 caliber in handguns, and to M-1 rifles in the .30-06 Springfield cartridge, the M-14 in .308 Winchester.  The M-14, actually, is considered to be the “last” of the American battle rifles, because it fires full-power rifle ammunition and AR-15s and M-16s do not, but only offer the diminutive .223 (5.56mm) round.

Anyone doubting that a .308 round wouldn’t penetrate a helmet, much less a tree, much less a half-inch of sheet steel, should volunteer for target duty immediately.

Bill Sherlach, whose wife, Mary, was killed in the shooting, said he believes in the Second Amendment but also that the gun industry needs to be held to “standard business practices” when it comes to assuming the risk for producing, making and selling a product.

“These companies assume no responsibility for marketing and selling a product to the general population who are not trained to use it nor even understand the power of it,” he said.

I say to Bill: then apparently you don’t Grok the concept of placing even larger and more potent weapons into the hands of 15 and 16 and 17-year-olds who volunteered to support the US in WWII.  Because they too cannot be trusted.

And to Bill: marketing and selling is regulated by not only the federal government, but the individual states.  The weapons involved were purchased lawfully in the State of Connecticut.  What part of that do you not understand, sir?

Bushmaster has already paid out.  They should pay out no more.

[A small aside for those unfamiliar with the firearms industry in America: there are, to the best of my knowledge, at least seven firearms or firearms-associated manufacturers located — at least for a time — in the state of Connecticut, to include Smith & Wesson; Colt; Sturm, Ruger & Co.; Mossberg; Winchester; Remington; and Martin Firearms.]

I wrote about the Newtown shootings here and here.

And I also said this: I will never give up my Second Amendment.  I will not give up my Second Amendment because of Newtown or Virginia or any other event.  Twenty children died.  But I will not give up my Second Amendment rights.  I do this for the greater overarching picture.  I am resolute.

I am resolute.

Perhaps John Stossel is correct:

These lawsuits are predicated but upon emotions only.  They are not based upon logic because overall crime is down in the US and violent crime is down and gun crime is down.

And that is also despite the fact that my department recently lost Deputy Danny Oliver.

For those Leftists who read me, let’s see more of these signs:

Unarmed-HomeBZ