Posted on 03/20/2015 9:31:37 AM PDT by maggief
Eric Holder is looking for a new job...
Until the ATF (and pretty much every other “way around the Constitution” agency) gets shut down, it doesn’t mean a thing.
shortly after the agency dropped a controversial attempt to ban certain armor-piercing bullets used in AR-15 rifles.
Wrong. The stuff isn't AP. M995 is AP, hardened tungsten carbide core, two bucks a round if you can find it anywhere and I stopped trying. Let's face it, the 5.56 isn't your first choice against an armored target.
This affair was obviously a deliberate stretch to see if they could redefine ammunition categories enough to restrict their contents. Had they succeeded, any rifle caliber that has ever been chambered in a pistol format could have been banned, which is a very wide range indeed. There was no mistake here, only a reach for power and it's high time the hand doing so got slapped, hard.
I don’t know if you create these visuals or find them somehow, but they’re awesome, Dude!
ATF employees who are worth keeping should transfer to the FBI. The others should find useful jobs. ATF should be disbanded, and all federal firearms laws should be repealed. "Shall not be infringed" means exactly what it says.
How many lies can a person cram into one "statement"?
“Hardly something you’re going to carry around in your pocket or a holster. But it does look scary! /s”
Yeah, and I just imagine that it’s noisy with that short barrel. An ordinary AR isn’t what you’d call quiet.
Not hardly’enough. Atf needs to be done away with and never return.
That's not correct. Bushmaster and others such as Olympic Arms made many auto pistols on the AR platform. I used to own one. They were not SBRs and they did not require a tax stamp. As I recall, the barrel was about 9 inches and did not have a stock. It was cool, but really more of a novelty and kind of useless...just a bullet hose. However, I never heard of one being used in a crime. A few years back Bushmaster was still selling them for around $1000 to $1100.
Fired because he backed off the decree?
Much harder to take someone’s pension after he has retired...
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2015/03/why-did-batfe-back-off-ammo-ban.html
Very loud - yes. And if you put a stock on it, it becomes a SBR.
“The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”
Constitution of the United States, Article II, Section 4
And those that operate on straight blowback, such as the ones in .22 and 9mm, dispense with the buffer tube all together. Not sure about the ones in the FN 5.7 caliber- which IS a pistol cartridge that WAS designed to defeat soft body armour.
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