"Land of the Free"? Not if you look closely.
I'm so glad these FACISTS have come along to protect me from myself, I've been carrying 10 rounds in speed loaders, and a lighter in the same pocket, every day for years.
How can it be that I haven't blown myself up?
http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main?main=DocumentDetail&d=OSHA-2007-0032-0001
Direct link to the electronic comment submission site, as well as the text of the proposed rule. Even OSHA realizes how stupid this is, and specifically seeks comment if the small arms ammunition should be specifically excluded from the rule.
Utterly mindless government drones at work. Yet another example of ideals overwhelming any common sense at all. What, is every cop supposed to search anyone within fifty feet of a patrol car for ignition devices? After all, there are explosives as defined by OSHA on board, excluding the ammunition, in the form of CS canisters.
A lot in the United States could be fixed by firing, immediately, half of all government employees, and putting the remainder on part time employment.
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Just another backdoor attempt at taking our guns away from us, in the guise of “occupational safety.”
Gun grabbers get sneakier all the time.
The military is going to love this. While not under OSHA, or subjuct to OSHA, the military does accept OSHA industry standards. I guess going to war, or even training for war will become a little more expensive. Not that this tax and spend government gives a damn.
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Just for background ...
Have ANY small arms buildings or ammo storage sites or gun stores or small arms manufactoring facilities exploded (from this specific kind of activity) during the past 150 years?
Farmers need to throw a hissy-fit too. OSHA regulations on ammonium nitrate fertilizer will cost them a bundle.
"Land of the Free"? Not if you look closely.
Where are the NRA-bots claiming this is just a fundraiser attempt?
After all, if the NRA isn’t against it (no word from them about it)then it can’t be gun control. /sarcasm
"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."
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........
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?
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.
NSSF should be ashamed of themselves for the BS alarmist propoganda.
This type of hype gives real 2A activists a black eye.
This would effect home reloaders, too.
Alternative Proposal: shut down OSHA
These agencies have taken on a life of their own and they believe they are autonomous.