By AWR Hawkins
Washington DC – -(Ammoland.com)- On Friday, Rep. Tom Rooney (R-FL) introduced legislation revoking the ATF’s claim of power to regulate ammunition via “armor piecing” language in the Gun Control Act of 1968 (GCA).
The ATF is specifically claiming the ability to regulate ammunition via the “armor piercing” language contained in the Law Enforcement Officers Protection Act, an amendment added to the GCA in 1986.
Their current focus is on banning the wildly popular M855 round for AR-15 rifles.
Rooney’s bill would roll back the ATF’s powers to pre-1986 levels.
According to The Hill, Rooney’s bill “would prohibit the ATF or any other federal agency from issuing or enforcing any new restriction or prohibition on the manufacture, importation, or sale of ammunition in the United States.”
Rooney said:
The Obama administration’s [proposed ban of M855 ammo] would unilaterally strip law-abiding hunters and sportsmen of their Second Amendment rights. Congress has made its intentions clear that this ammunition is for sporting purposes and should not be restricted. We cannot and will not stand by while the Obama administration tramples on the constitution, the rule of law, and the Second Amendment rights of hunters.
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Get rid of the laws that infringe.
As any higher power centerfire rifle will go thru a vest.
After a couple rounds of even .308 will defeat a ceramic plate(larger rounds maybe the 1st time) but then
a head, leg, arm, underarm shot nixes any use of so called body armor.
It’s all a canard as real killers DO NOT CARE ABOUT RULES or LAWS; the fed just wants total control of
We the People= for nefarious un-Constitutional reasons ~!
congress will do whatever Obababama wants. It was proven today with the immigration policy and the failure to defund Obababamacare.
Oh, the hopes and dreams that cartoon inspires!
Rooney may be right, but for all the wrong reasons – what the heck does “hunting” or “sporting” have to do with anything? The 2nd Amendment has NOTHING at all to do with hunting or sporting, it’s all about protecting yourself and your country from aggression from outside, or tyranny from within. And it is really clear, about it. Have you ever gone hunting with a “well regulated militia?”
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/stop-batfe-banning-xm855-ammunition/XrvVh1cj
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/114/hr1180