Posted on 07/02/2007 11:11:44 PM PDT by Revtwo
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), is proposing a regulatory rule affecting the manufacturing, transportation and storage of small arms ammunition, primers and smokeless propellants.
As written, the proposed rule would force the closure of nearly all ammunition manufacturers and force the cost of small arms ammunition to skyrocket beyond what the market could bear—essentially collapsing our industry.
This is not an exaggeration. The cost to comply with the proposed rule for the ammunition industry, including manufacturer, wholesale distributors and retailers, will be massive and easily exceed $100 million. For example, ammunition and smokeless propellant manufacturers would have to shut down and evacuate a factory when a thunderstorm approached and customers would not be allowed within 50 feet of any ammunition (displayed or otherwise stored) without first being searched for matches or lighters.
(Excerpt) Read more at nssf.org ...
Same could apply to the military if they go along with OSHA standards.
Because the differences between pubbies and rats has been a mere matter of perception, and the line of demarcation is becoming less and less noticeable.
Because the beltway bureaucracies and the career bureaucrats that inhabit them don't change when the administration changes. They are a natural constituency of the Democratic Party, and IMHO, one of their most powerful assets. Armed with the New Deal "substantial effects" commerce clause they can extend the reach of the federal government to encompass every aspect of our lives and circumvent even the most explicitly protected rights.
Republican or Democrat ... the objective is to disarm the People. It is part of the NWO globalization. Eventually you will understand that the US faces extinction quite by purpose.
Actually, it appears the U.N. is directly involving itself in gun control enforcement: Gun control for Ja - UN will implement programme as safety measure ("Ja" is "Jamaica").
Yes, the US is allowing those rules to trump the Constitution. The UN one of many vehicles for implementing the NWO. You will have global governance eventually ... and corporations will be the "boss".
"PLEASE tell me this is a joke and that the government is not this stupid. Perhaps OSHA is concerned about the rash of gun store explosions that have been occuring during rain storms, or the epidemic of ammo fires caused by someone having a packet of matches in their pocket.
"I am used to the Federal Aviation Administration creating a stream of counterproductive, brainless regulations written by lawyers that have never actually been aboard an aircraft that harm aviation without doing anything to improve flying.
"I admit that OSHA warnings have provided a lot of laughs over the years, like the 28-page OSHA order on how to safely build and use a step ladder. A real knee-slapper is the rule that every firearm sold in the U.S. must carry a warning that says, "DUH! FIREARMS MAY CAUSE INJURY OR DEATH! READ ALL SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE USING!" Only the government could be this stupid. Then there is, "WARNING! REMOVE CLOTHES BEFORE IRONING!" and printed on a foot-long toy boat, "WARNING! NOT TO BE USED AS A FLOTATION DEVICE!" and on a Halloween Superman costume: "WARNING! COSTUME DOES NOT LET WEARER FLY!" Is everyone at OSHA really that stupid?
"At a time when the government is seen more and more as the problem and not the solution, proposals such as this just serve to make the people more contemptuous of OSHA in particular and government in general."
They already do. The BATF long ago started regulating hobby rocket engines above a certain size. I haven't studied the issue in a while, so they may, in the interim, have extended the regs to ALL model rocket engines as "explosive devices".
I’ve always said if they couldn’t take our guns away, they would find a way to take our ammunition away.
After all, we have the right to keep and bear arms but with legal parsing of the amendment there is no mention of the right to keep and bear AMMUNITION.
It was only a matter of time........
“Can someone please explain to me why this sort of thing is going on under a Republican administration?????????”
Oh! That Republican administration.........I’m sorry but that administration ended when Regan left office. You are now dealing with the Bush dynasty.
With so many gun stores and ammunition plants exploding, something has to be done. /sarc
Congress needs to ban OSHA from regulating the firearms industry like they did when CPSC attempted same.
BWT, California politicians are also attacking gun rights by going after ammunition. There is a bill moving through the legislature that would severely impact the sale of ammunition in California and another to ban the use of lead ammunition in certain hunting situations.
Coincidence or the latest gun banner fad?
You really need to look up the definition of fascist before tossing it out as you are.
Paging Henry Bowman. Is he on the list? :>)
On July 29, 2002, OSHA received a petition (the Petition) from the Institute of Makers of Explosives (IME) and the Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers' Institute (SAAMI) to revise the standard.
So if SAAMI is behind this, how can anyone say that this is an attempt to put ammunition manufacturers out of business?
So far, what I read is that this is mostly administrative work to keep definitions consistent with other federal agencies, update regs to take into account new improved technologies, and to actually remove some regulation from the books.
But I'm still reading.
From what I’ve read of this so far, this actually seems to be a good thing OSHA is doing.
Anyone who deals with federal regulations has extreme frustration over how EPA, OSHA, DOT, etc all define and regulate hazardous materials.
Now it seems that OSHA is trying to gain consistency with other standards and regulations that already exist.
IOW, some standard, either national consensus (NFPA, etc) or govermental body already impacts nearly all aspects of manufacture, storage, and transport of explosives and major components, but they all do it in different words.
So far I’ve seen very little that OSHA is actually pushing that is new and infact SAAMI is behind this push, not exactly an enemy to gunowners.
NSSF should be ashamed of themselves for the BS alarmist propoganda.
This type of hype gives real 2A activists a black eye.
Because we don’t have a Republican administration, we have a RINO administration.
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