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To: sheikdetailfeather
Personally, I think that too much is being made of this issue. As a firearm owner, and gun rights supporter let me tell you why.

Many years ago during the Clinton Presidency, a firearms manufacturer called Olympic Arms, built a semi-automatic pistol that fired 7.62x39mm Ammo. It looked for all practical purposes just like a shortened & no shoulder stock version of a mAK rifle. It resulted in some anti-gun folks claiming that steel core ammo (the cheap stuff imported from China) could/should be classified as cop-killer amour piercing ammo. Up until then Chi-Com surplus and newly manufactured ammo was feeding a frenzy of SKS and MAK rifle imports into the U.S.

Been there done that. Shortly after the banning of Chi-Com surplus ammo, Russian and Eastern European surplus and newly manufactured ammo floodgates opened and those who had SKS and MAK’s found other sources of ammo.

Personally, I find it stupid and childish what the government is doing, but there sill be other sources of ammo, as nature and capitalism abhor a vacuum or unfilled market.

The Clinton administration rang this bell and it didn't stop shooting sports. Obama can ring the bell again and it will create a temporary price bubble for ammo, but it too won't last long.

Keep shooing my friends.

219 posted on 02/26/2015 11:47:08 AM PST by Robert357 (D.Rather "Hoist with his own petard!" www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223916/posts)
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To: Robert357

“Keep shooting my friends.”

Or

“Keep shooting, my friends.”?

Punctuation matters. :>))


265 posted on 02/26/2015 2:12:28 PM PST by clintonh8r (ISIS IS ISlam)
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