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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It will never pass in a MILLION years so don’t waste your time contacted your politicians to support it. There will not be ANY law created that frees up ANYTHNG to do with guns that will not be vetoed by the WH. So save our energy and instead start getting your friends family and co-workers to realize the power the Democrats have stolen from the individual all the while tossing crumbs or free food free education and the other tidbits that have created this society of underworked and over taxed lazy folks so far in debt we will never get… Read more »
I have news for ya Rooney, the second amendment is about us having the ability to stop a tyrant or an invasion of a foreign army, the militia act of 1792 ” required every able bodied man” to own and possess a firearm, hunting was the only way of life and could not possibly see a walmart growing all their food on the shelves..I have a God given Right to own and possess any weapon in the arsenal short of a Nuke.. PERIOD!!!!!
How have I been shooting a Colt AR, a Ruger Mini and an XP-100 for the last 25 years without ever firing or even hearing of something thing known as the “wildly popular M855 round?” I wasn’t aware that the places I’ve lived in Illinois, Wyoming, Kansas and Missouri in that time were so far-removed from the beaten track.