Rider Passed Protecting Military Firearms, Ammunition, and Components

[MaineCWPtraining]

Friday, December 18, 2009

With the holiday season upon us, and the end of the year fast approaching, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 3326—the Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2010. With the passage of this bill, NRA-ILA wraps up its appropriations work for the year.

Our efforts on the huge spending bill were rewarded with the restoration of a longstanding rider to protect M-1 carbines, M-1 Garands, M-14s, .22 caliber rifles, and others from being destroyed.

This language also includes a prohibition on the destruction of small arms ammunition and components, and a response to the short-lived concern over destruction of spent brass casings earlier this year.

Section 8019 of the bill reads: "None of the funds available to the Department of Defense may be used to demilitarize or dispose of M-1 Carbines, M-1 Garand rifles, M-14 rifles, .22 caliber rifles, .30 caliber rifles, or M-1911 pistols, or to demilitarize or destroy small arms ammunition or ammunition components that are not otherwise prohibited from commercial sale under Federal law, unless the small arms ammunition or ammunition components are certified by the Secretary of the Army or designee as unserviceable or unsafe for further use."

NRA-ILA would like to thank U.S. Representative John Murtha (D-PA) for his help in getting the rider restored and expanded.

 

[USMA-82]

unless the small arms ammunition or ammunition components are certified by the Secretary of the Army or designee as unserviceable or unsafe for further use."

OUCH! Major loophole there - since most government agencies consider ammunition in the hands of civilians to be unsafe....

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[Jose]

OUCH! Major loophole there - since most government agencies consider ammunition in the hands of civilians to be unsafe....

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This achieve nothing

 

[Scrivener]

This achieve[s] nothing

Really?

An act which guarantees the lifeblood of the CMP, Garands, M1 Carbines, the Kimber and Mossberg target .22s and all the ammo for them WON'T be destroyed "achieve nothing?"

Short memory. Most of us here remember the Clinton administration sending those guns to the crusher.

 

[MassMark]

Really?

An act which guarantees the lifeblood of the CMP, Garands, M1 Carbines, the Kimber and Mossberg target .22s and all the ammo for them WON'T be destroyed "achieve nothing?"

Short memory. Most of us here remember the Clinton administration sending those guns to the crusher.

Exactly. I've searched tirelessly for it - on old ZipDisks if that says anything, but I used to have a photograph of M14's, Thompsons, M1 Garands and M1 carbines being shoveled into a pile with a front end loader at a military depot. It was Clinton-era photograph...I wish I could find it, but am glad in a way I cannot.

 

[Navy Moose]

Exactly. I've searched tirelessly for it - on old ZipDisks if that says anything, but I used to have a photograph of M14's, Thompsons, M1 Garands and M1 carbines being shoveled into a pile with a front end loader at a military depot. It was Clinton-era photograph...I wish I could find it, but am glad in a way I cannot.

If GOAL or the NRA has a copy of that photo, they should put it on the cover of their respective publications regularly to remind us what can happen.

 

[LoginName]

I wonder how many M1 carbines and Garands are still in US inventory?

Until the ATF rescinds it's "once a machine gun, always a machine gun" determination (so conversions to semi-auto only are allowed), none of those M-14s will be available to civilians (and I find it highly unlikely that the gov would allow them to be transfered under the NFA).

 

[MaineCWPtraining]

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