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Obama to ban bullets by executive action, threatens top-selling AR-15 rifle
Washington Examiner2-26-2015 ^ | 2-26-2015 | Paul Bedard

Posted on 02/26/2015 9:14:31 AM PST by sheikdetailfeather

It’s started.

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 putting the ban on 5.56mm 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.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2a; 2ndamendment; ar15; ban; banbullets; banglist; bullets; executiveaction; executivefiat; executiveorder; guncontrol; gungrabbers; imperialpresidency; obama; rkba; secondamendment; unconstitutional; uniparty; weakpatriots
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To: MaxMax

Thanks for helping Obama get elected twice. The blame belongs completely to you fools who sniveled that Romney “wasn’t conservative enough”. Calling the people who did the right thing and voted for Romney just shows how stupid you are. If you want to commit political suicide to prove some point, don’t destroy the country to do it. Thanks again.


121 posted on 02/26/2015 10:12:48 AM PST by ozzymandus
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To: VanShuyten

Is copper one of those allegedly armor-piercing materials?

And how can there actually be a rationale for banning the allegedly armor-piercing bullets, anyhow. Drive-by shooters and rogue police forces aren’t going to just disappear because this ammo does.


122 posted on 02/26/2015 10:12:57 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Je suis Charlie, you miserable Islamist throwbacks!)
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To: Lazamataz
Bedard is leaving out an important point. It's AP ammo that's getting the treatment.

This is fear porn.

Why should AP ammo be banned?

123 posted on 02/26/2015 10:13:06 AM PST by DiogenesLamp
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To: Logical me

The Republican leadership will do it by pushing Globalist like Jeb Bush.

Voting for the lesser of two evils over time will eventually lead to tyranny. It’s just a slower approach. The Republican party seems to be on board with a Democrat goal, but just at a slower pace.


124 posted on 02/26/2015 10:13:10 AM PST by Enlightened1
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To: sheikdetailfeather

fourteenth amendment section 3

we need to enforce this now.


125 posted on 02/26/2015 10:13:11 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: Artcore

“Good thing we didn’t elect Romney.”

You mean the Romney who signed an assault weapons ban in Massachusetts and now lies about that (it’s not really an assault weapons ban), or the “lifelong hunter and gun owner” Romney?

Or this Romney: “Deadly assault weapons have no place in Massachusetts. These guns are not made for recreation or self-defense. They are instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people.”


126 posted on 02/26/2015 10:13:48 AM PST by DBrow
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To: b4its2late
Everyday it’s another assault on the country.

If this keeps up, it is my opinion that some $h!t-house-rat-crazy folks may start launching daily assaults on le Blanc Hut.

127 posted on 02/26/2015 10:14:19 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Where am I to go now that I've gone too far?)
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To: ozzymandus

I only voted for Romney (and McCain likewise) because he was running against a communist. If the D candidate were just a garden-variety liberal statist, I wouldn’t have given Romney the time of day.

And now, onward to Venezuela!


128 posted on 02/26/2015 10:14:29 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Je suis Charlie, you miserable Islamist throwbacks!)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

We are only in the 2nd month of the last 2 years with this a$$hole in charge. So, there are only 22 months left to this daily nightmare.

I often wonder if those that helped and allowed this dictator a second term are having fun yet....? I doubt it.


129 posted on 02/26/2015 10:14:50 AM PST by Gator113 (Cruz, Lee, and Sessions speak for me.... most anyone else is just noise.)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

Impeach, indict, convict, and strap the moslem commie traitor into olde sparky...


130 posted on 02/26/2015 10:17:04 AM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

As much as this pisses me off, this is a standard interpretation of a 20 year old law. Armor piercing ammo laws refer to any ammo that can be used in a handgun (other than a single shot) with a steel core. It does not apply to rifle ammo.
This steel penetrator ammo for ARs has been around a while. In the last few years there has been an explosion of 5.56 AR pattern handguns.
So we all lost the penetrator ammo.

Its freaking retarded and only came about after one of the lethal weapon movies when they were prominently featured. There was one fantastic (in the 1800s sense of the word) scene where a 9mm with special “cop killer” bullets were fired right through the blade of a bulldozer. So of course, we got a law in much the same way as the switchblade law came out of “West Side Story”.

Its lame, but this is not a new law, or a new policy.
Anyway, be happy, 55gr M193 is a far more devastating round anyway. Very nasty stuff,,,

And if you really need 855 for some arcane reason, feds will have all of it that you need. Just go take it :)


131 posted on 02/26/2015 10:17:55 AM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: sheikdetailfeather
Wow, who didn't see this one coming?

GOPe will not do a thing

What will be the next shoe to fall?

132 posted on 02/26/2015 10:18:14 AM PST by hadaclueonce (Ethanol is stupid.)
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To: chris37

My stomach just went up into my throat.


133 posted on 02/26/2015 10:18:31 AM PST by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (Made in September 1975. All Original Parts.)
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To: Lazamataz

—” you can keep your doctor”—


134 posted on 02/26/2015 10:18:49 AM PST by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

“I taught constitutional law for 10 years. I take the Constitution very seriously,” Obama said during a campaign rally in Lancaster, Pa., on March 31, 2008. “The biggest problems that we’re facing right now have to do with George Bush trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all.”

And then came the promise: “And that is what I intend to reverse when I become president of the United States.”

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/02/obamas-long-lost-campaign-promise/


135 posted on 02/26/2015 10:19:59 AM PST by McGruff (We are leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq - Barack Obama 2011)
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To: MaxMax

That’s a crock.

Obama seems to be acceptable to you.

Adios.


136 posted on 02/26/2015 10:20:19 AM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

Where are the States, lining up to pass legislation stating the POS’ decree is illegal...?


137 posted on 02/26/2015 10:23:39 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion ( "Forward lies the crown, and onward is the goal.")
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To: Dick Vomer
all the keyboard commandos need to check themselves. they're just poking the bee hive and hoping you'll make some idiotic comment to allow them to track you. I suspect that I'm probably being tracked due me warning you at this time.

We're all being tracked by FedGov in their zeal to control everything. The good part is the government is awash in incompetents and at some point it will likely implode on its own. We don't have to do a thing. Well..., you can pop some popcorn if you like while we watch the show!

138 posted on 02/26/2015 10:24:23 AM PST by Flick Lives ("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
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To: ozzymandus

“The blame belongs completely to you fools who sniveled that Romney “wasn’t conservative enough”.”

1. He wasn’t.
2. He isn’t.
3. He never was anything but a liberal RINO, who is also in a cult.

“Calling the people who did the right thing and voted for Romney just shows how stupid you are.”

Thinking that ever voting for a RINO Liberal Cultist is “the right thing” reflects right back to you.

“If you want to commit political suicide to prove some point, don’t destroy the country to do it. Thanks again.””

Run conservatives. It is Plantation RINOpublicans who snivel, “yes massah,” every time they run another RINO is the source of the problem. If you are one of those, shame on you.


139 posted on 02/26/2015 10:26:08 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion ( "Forward lies the crown, and onward is the goal.")
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To: sheikdetailfeather

Gun people that are dismissive of this are the same people that call “Gun Shows” => “Sportsmen Shows”.

God forbid you call a gun show a gun show, it’s provacative. They follow the liberal play book.

They have thier own guilt...they will always and forever be apologists.


140 posted on 02/26/2015 10:28:36 AM PST by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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