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People don't need to panic buy. Don't we all have some secret stashes like this?
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Gunbroker asking prices are stupid, 420 round cans are selling for 300 bucks and up and people are paying for it!!!
So far BATFE is working within the definitions written into Federal law. I don't expect BATFE to attempt to rewrite 18 USC § 921(a)(17)](B), just to push the limits of the definitions in the law as passed by congress and signed by President Reagan.yea, they just make a new definition, whats to stop them?Kevin_NH said:Care to elaborate on how Federal law allows BATFE to get rid of "non-sporting" rounds unless the rounds meet one of the two definitions (i or ii) of AP in 18 USC § 921(a)(17)](B)?
Half of those are probably shill/fakes. They "sell" things at 300 to make the ActualNipplehead(tm) think he's getting a superb deal at $250.
So far BATFE is working within the definitions written into Federal law. I don't expect BATFE to attempt to rewrite 18 USC § 921(a)(17)](B), just to push the limits of the definitions in the law as passed by congress and signed by President Reagan.
bureaucracy(/bjuːˈɒkrəsi/) is "a body of non-elective government officials" and/or "an administrative policy-making group".
This is bureaucracy at it's slimiest. i challenge anyone to point out a bigger murder of our rights as bureaucracy.
It's odd you say it that way, because the ATF did murder people at Ruby Ridge and Waco, and got away with it.
It's been in Reddit's Twitter feed for over 18 hours.No mentions of this trend anywhere on social media (Twitter and Instagram) that I can see.
I just looked around for amusement's sake -- and all of the M855 is gone. That didn't take long.
Gunbroker asking prices are stupid, 420 round cans are selling for 300 bucks and up and people are paying for it!!!
So far BATFE is working within the definitions written into Federal law. I don't expect BATFE to attempt to rewrite 18 USC § 921(a)(17)](B), just to push the limits of the definitions in the law as passed by congress and signed by President Reagan.
To ATF Director B. Todd Jones,
I am writing to you to express my great displeasure that you have decided to ignore current law and arbitrarily and capriciously ban the 5.56mm ammunition commonly known as M855.
18 USC § 921(a)(17) states:
(B) The term “armor piercing ammunition” means—
(i) a projectile or projectile core which may be used in a handgun and which is constructed entirely (excluding the presence of traces of other substances) from one or a combination of tungsten alloys, steel, iron, brass, bronze, beryllium copper, or depleted uranium; or
(ii) a full jacketed projectile larger than .22 caliber designed and intended for use in a handgun and whose jacket has a weight of more than 25 percent of the total weight of the projectile.
M855 contains a steel penetrator with a lead core. Thus this bullet does not meet section (i) of the law since the core is not made up entirely of one of the listed metals. Further, M855 still does not meet section (ii) for two reasons: The jacket is not over 25% of the total weight of the projectile, and even if it were the projectile is NOT intended for use in a handgun. The intent for the projectile was for use in the M249 SAW and in the civilian market to be used in a semi-automatic rifle, just like every other variation of the 5.56mm caliber.
So what this means is that this proposal is in violation of the law. Only congress has the legal authority to designate M855 as "armor piercing" since it requires changes to the wording of this statute to do so.
I would also like to point out that in the SCOTUS decision handed down in 2008, Heller, there is a "common use" exemption. Well, M855 is one of the most commonly produced and used variants of the 5.56mm caliber and thus meets that requirement.
And lastly, under the second amendment of the US Constitution, which states in part "shall not be infringed," we the people have a right to buy any type of ammunition we want to use. If that ammunition were to happen to be used against bureaucratic tyrants who willfully and knowingly violate the law, well, too bad for them. Maybe they should follow the law congress wrote.
Have a nice day,
Except they are not working within those definitions. They have gone outside them. Even if the jacket is greater than 25% of the weight of the round, the round is not intended for use in a handgun. Thus it still wouldn't meet the definition of the law.
My letter to the ATF:
That's nuts....is that yours???