Breitbart News sat down with Thomas Massie (R-KY-4th Dist.) earlier this week, and he explained that he put forth a rider to a Department of Justice appropriations bill to block the ATF “from banning common rifle ammunition” out of concern that “Obama’s swan song is gun control by executive order.”
Bloomberg.com has added its voices to the chorus of those calling for the elimination of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), stating it should be “put … out of its misery.”
Representative Steve Israel (D-NY) has sent a letter to acting ATF director Thomas Brandon contending that a broad look at all firearm-related law enforcement deaths justifies the issuance of an AR-15 ammunition ban.
On April 4, The Economist mocked the NRA and Second Amendment supporters with a column that turned out to be an epic fail because it was built on numbers from a debunked Everytown for Gun Safety study, an erroneous claim that “armor piercing” M855 ammo endangers police, and a not-so-veiled attempt to undercut the push to arm women for self-defense on college campuses.
On March 29, the Mississippi Senate passed legislation containing a slew of crucial pro-gun proposals, one of which shields Mississippians from prosecution if the ATF or another federal agency revisits and institutes an AR-15 ammo ban in the future. The
Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY) plans to meet with incoming ATF director Thomas Brandon and talk to him about reviving the AR-15 ammo ban on the M855 round.
After a week of various Democrats expressing their disbelief that the ATF stopped pursuing a ban on the M855 round for AR-15 rifles, Representative Steve Israel (D-NY) is putting forth a broader ban intended to cover all centerfire “armor piercing”
On Monday, Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC) put forth legislation banning future ATF rifle ammo bans.
On March 12, The Washington Post (WAPO) reacted to the failed AR-15 ammo ban, which was one more gun control loss in a string of many others, by suggesting that President Obama is hurting the gun control movement with his hyperbole on gun crime statistics and America’s place in the world among gun-owning countries.
Still reeling from the ATF HQ’s announcement that the AR-15 ammo ban is off the table for now, The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times simply came unglued on March 12–describing the NRA as a “ridiculous” group that “aligned itself with violent criminals” to defeat the ban.
On Tuesday, Breitbart News reported that ATF Headquarters announced they were halting their AR-15 ammo ban less than a month after proposing it. That same day, The Washington Post declared: “That didn’t take long.”
On Wednesday, the day after the ATF scrapped its proposed AR-15 ammo ban, the Huffington Post (HuffPo) ran an article claiming one of the reasons the gun control lobby suffers “embarrassing loss” after “embarrassing loss” is because they spend their energies passing sloppy laws and then trying to enforce those laws in an offensive manner.
On March 10 the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) halted their proposed AR-15 ammo ban to reconsider the “framework” on which the ban rested.
Citing overwhelming response to the proposed ban on M855 rounds for the AR-15 rifle, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) has announced the ban on the green-tipped round is being halted for now. In a March 10
Wayne LaPierre said that the ATF’s proposed M855 ammo ban is a perfect segue into bans on larger caliber hunting rounds as well.
In response to the ATF’s determined march toward banning the M855 round for law-abiding citizens, Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) has introduced legislation to eliminate the ATF altogether.
On March 4, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA-6th Dist.) and 237 other lawmakers signed and sent a letter to the ATF expressing their opposition to the proposed M855 ammo ban.
On March 4, Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) executive director James Pasco said Obama’s proposed ban on M855 ammo is not necessary.
On March 2 White House press secretary Josh Earnest said the pending AR-15 ammo ban is a “common sense” way to save cops’ lives. Earnest also claimed the ban on M855 ammo is something that can be done while “protecting
The ATF’s basis for banning the M855 round requires that it can be fired out of an AR-15 pistol.
The New York Times reports that the ATF’s proposed AR-15 ammo ban has been in the works for over three years.
On February 26, Rush Limbaugh addressed the pending ammo ban for popular AR-15 ammunition by saying, “[Obama] wants to take guns out of everybody’s hands and if he can’t do that, he’s going to take the bullets that go in