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Posted on 07/16/2007 12:01:12 PM PDT by neverdem
| Labor Department Announces It Will Revise Overreaching OSHA Explosives Rule |
| Monday, July 16, 2007 |
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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced it will significantly revise a recent proposal for new “explosives safety” regulations that caused serious concern among gun owners. OSHA had originally set out to update workplace safety regulations, but the proposed rules included restrictions that very few gun shops, sporting goods stores, shippers, or ammunition dealers could comply with.
Gun owners had filed a blizzard of negative comments urged by the NRA, and just a week ago, OSHA had already issued one extension for its public comment period at the request of the National Shooting Sports Foundation. After continued publicity through NRA alerts and the outdoor media, and after dozens of Members of Congress expressed concern about its impact, OSHA has wisely decided to go back to the drawing board.
Working with the NRA, Congressman Denny Rehberg (R-MT) planned to offer a floor amendment to the Labor-HHS appropriations bill this Wednesday when the House considers this legislation. His amendment would have prohibited federal funds from being used to enforce this OSHA regulation.
Such an amendment is no longer necessary since Kristine A. Iverson, the Labor Department’s Assistant Secretary for Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs, sent Rep. Rehberg a letter, dated July 16, stating that it “was never the intention of OSHA to block the sale, transportation, or storage of small arms ammunition, and OSHA is taking prompt action to revise” this proposed rule to clarify the purpose of the regulation.
Also, working with the NRA, Congressman Doug Lamborn (R-CO) gathered signatures from 25 House colleagues for a letter, dated July 11, expressing concerns about this proposed OSHA rule. The letter calling the proposal “an undue burden on a single industry where facts do not support the need outlined by this proposed rule” and “not feasible, making it realistically impossible for companies to comply with its tenets.”
The OSHA proposal would have defined “explosives” to include “black powder, … small arms ammunition, small arms ammunition primers, [and] smokeless propellant,” and treated these items the same as the most volatile high explosives.
Under the proposed rule, a workplace that contained even a handful of small arms cartridges, for any reason, would have been considered a “facility containing explosives” and therefore subject to many impractical restrictions. For example, no one could carry “firearms, ammunition, or similar articles in facilities containing explosives … except as required for work duties.” Obviously, this rule would make it impossible to operate any kind of gun store, firing range, or gunsmith shop.
The public comment website for the proposed rule is no longer accessible. The Labor Department will publish a notice in the July 17 Federal Register announcing that a new rule proposal will soon be drafted for public comment. Needless to say, the NRA monitors proposed federal regulations to head off this kind of overreach, and will be alert for OSHA’s next draft.
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So you can keep bullets in your house - you just can’t have a gun. Yeah, brilliant.
Next: If you keep a propane tank or natural gas line in the house, you can’t have a stove or a furnace. Safety, you know.
The two aren’t mutually exclusive.
Where is that picture of the OSHA Cowboy at ?
OSHA Santa !
Unelected bureaucrats writing law. Where have we seen that before? Well, how about with the unelected soviets . Or the fascist functionairies.
These federal bureaucracies are stealing our right to elect via the ballot box our representatives to write law. In short, these bureaucrats are nothing more than dictators. It’s time for this transgression of our rights to end.
Yep - just like the amnesty crowd, they'll keep trying to screw the public until enough people are looking away. We must keep their feet to the fire at all times. All times.
Yep, I would bet almost anything that there was a gun grabber somewhere in the crafting of this “rule”.
BS. It was RIGHT FRIGGIN' THERE in the proposed regs: "The OSHA proposal would have defined “explosives” to include “black powder, … small arms ammunition, small arms ammunition primers, [and] smokeless propellant,” and treated these items the same as the most volatile high explosives."
What really gets me mad is that these unelected, unaccountable MF'ers really believe that we're so stupid that we'll believe them. Oh, and THEY'LL BE BACK. Count on it, and be ready.
Thanks, Algore, for the Internet - without it, this proposed reg would already be on the books.
Either she’s lying, or stupid (in which case she was told by her lying bosses to feed everyone a line that everyone but her knew to be a BIG, STEAMING LIE).
Don't forget butter knives! One can be a real menace, and most homes have an arsenal of them. Maybe OSHA can redraft the proposed regs to forbid these dangerous weapons from being in the presence of anyone with fingers or eyes? And don't get me started with those EVILLLLLL steak knives...
Can you believe how utterly stooopid our government is? Or evil? Or both? Take your pick. I will say, however, that as an entity it is singularly original and devastatingly effective in pissing people off. Rosie O'Donut could take lessons.
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