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Obama Decrees Ban On Ammo For The Most Popular Rifle In America
Submitted by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,
Because he can’t get Congress to approve the things that he wants to do, Barack Obama has apparently decided to rule by decree for the rest of his time in the White House. One of Obama’s latest moves is to try to ban some of the most popular ammunition for the most popular rifle in America. Previously, the Obama administration attempted unsuccessfully to ban the AR-15. That didn’t work, so now Obama is going after the ammunition. This is yet another example of the war on preppers that is going on all over the nation. Whether you are a gun owner or not, this assault on our constitutional rights should disturb you greatly. Barack Obama has promised to try to squeeze as much “change” as possible out of his last two years, and in the process he is “fundamentally transforming” America. But what will our country look like when he is done?
At the top of the Drudge Report today, there was a story from the Washington Examiner detailing this ammo ban…
As promised, President Obama is using executive actions to impose gun control on the nation, targeting the top-selling rifle in the country, the AR-15 style semi-automatic, with a ban on one of the most-used AR bullets by sportsmen and target shooters.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives this month revealed that it is proposing to put the ban on 5.56mm ammo on a fast track, immediately driving up the price of the bullets and prompting retailers, including the huge outdoors company Cabela’s, to urge sportsmen to urge Congress to stop the president.
And here is more on this ammo ban from the NRA…
As NRA has been reporting since the night the news broke, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) is moving to infringe upon the rights of law-abiding gun owners with a drastic reinterpretation of a nearly 30-year-old law regulating so-called “armor piercing” ammunition. So draconian is BATFE’s new “Framework” that it would prohibit the manufacturing, importation, and sale of M855 ball ammunition, one of the most popular cartridges for the most popular rifle in America, the AR-15. Not coincidentally, the AR-15 is among the firearms the Obama Administration has unsuccessfully sought to outlaw. If they can’t ban the pie, so the thinking apparently goes, they might at least get the apples.
In an effort to thwart BATFE’s attempted action, NRA has worked with U.S. Representative Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, to draft a letter to BATFE expressing the lawmakers’ opposition to the proposed Framework. To read a copy of the letter, please click this link.
According to the letter, “The idea that Congress intended [the ‘armor piercing’ ammunition law] to ban one of the preeminent rifle cartridges in use by Americans for legitimate purposes is preposterous.” It goes on to state that the law “should be construed in accordance with the American tradition of lawful firearms ownership, as protected by the Second Amendment.” This includes due consideration of “the many legitimate uses Americans make of their firearms including target practice, hunting, organized and casual competition, training and skills development, and instructional activities.“ The letter concludes with several pointed questions for B. Todd Jones, BATFE’s director, including why the agency bypassed the Administrative Procedures Act in proposing such a radical change to its prior interpretation and enforcement of the law.
The crazy thing about all of this is the fact that this ammunition has never met the legal definition of being “armor piercing”. So what the Obama administration is attempting to do is outside the law.
A recent Infowars article broke this down…
The ATF is trying to ban M855 AR-15 ammunition by declaring it “armor piercing,” despite the ammo containing lead which exempts it from the classification according to law.
To be considered “armor piercing” under 18 U.S.C. 921 (a)(17)(B), a bullet must have an entirely metal core or have a jacket weighting more than 25% of its weight, which wouldn’t include M855 rounds because their bullets are partly lead.
The definition in full:
(17)
(A) The term “ammunition” means ammunition or cartridge cases, primers, bullets, or propellent powder designed for use in any firearm.
(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.
(C) The term “armor piercing ammunition” does not include shotgun shot required by Federal or State environmental or game regulations for hunting purposes, a frangible projectile designed for target shooting, a projectile which the Attorney General finds is primarily intended to be used for sporting purposes, or any other projectile or projectile core which the Attorney General finds is intended to be used for industrial purposes, including a charge used in an oil and gas well perforating device.
Needless to say, this ban is creating quite a bit of panic among gun owners.
Many gun owners are stocking up on this ammo while they still can…
Word of ATF’s proposal sparked a run on ammo at some Springfield gun stores, and steep price spikes for steel-tipped military surplus ammo at some online ammo dealers. Rounds that sold for 25 to 30 cents apiece tripled at some some stores after BATF posted its proposal on its web site.
“We sold out of what we had in stock,” said Ryan Cook, manager of Eagle Armory in Springfield. “We didn’t have a lot in the store but I might have sold four or five cases after ATF’s statement came out. I called our suppliers but they said there was none available to order. It’s like the ammo shortage before. People are going to panic.”
Like I said earlier, even if you are not a gun owner you have got to be extremely concerned about this erosion of our constitutional rights.
We have a man occupying the White House that seems absolutely determined to stretch the limits of presidential power as far as they can possibly go.
And at this point he has become so arrogant that he doesn’t even care if Congress believes that what he is doing is legal. Just consider what he said during one recent speech…
Pres. Obama is daring Republicans to vote on whether or not his executive actions are legal.
Discussing opposition to his executive amnesty orders at an immigration town hall Wednesday, Obama said he would veto the vote because his actions are “the right thing to do”:
“So in the short term, if Mr. McConnell, the leader of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House, John Boehner, want to have a vote on whether what I’m doing is legal or not, they can have that vote. I will veto that vote, because I’m absolutely confident that what we’re doing is the right thing to do.”
This is how republics die. When one man starts grabbing more and more power and nobody stops him, eventually a dictatorship is born.
This is not what our founding fathers intended. If they could see us today, they would be rolling over in their graves.
And a lot of Americans are getting fed up.
In fact, according to one recent survey only 47 percent of Americans still believe that Obama loves this country…
While the creepy #ILOVEOBAMA continues to trend on Twitter, fewer than half of American adults, 47 percent, say they believe that the president loves his country.
According to a survey conducted by Huffington Post/YouGov and released this week, a whopping 35 percent of Americans, more than one in three, believe that Obama doesn’t love the United States, while 17 percent said they weren’t sure.
The poll was conducted in the wake of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani telling a gathering in Manhattan that “I do not believe, and I know this is a horrible thing to say, but I do not believe that the president loves America.”
So what do you think?
Do you believe that what Obama is trying to do is legal?
And do you believe that Obama actually loves this country and everything that it is supposed to stand for?
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Precisely, in fact have none noticed the juxtaposition of timing with this relative to the FCC "vote?" Here am i, along with many regular Hedgers, with attention and anger being diverted from yesterday's incredible .gov power grab to yet, another on a long list of usurpations of our liberty.
These creatures, let's not name them 'elites', are waging a remarkable campaign against our (kids) future freedom, And we jump from one warming water-pot to another thinking we are retailiating/escaping by moaning and complaining; sad. I wish with each log off ZH, I'd be left energized and hopeful, but the reality is that I'm tired and even more concerned.
Ammo, I'll give ya ammo, sharpen your mind, body and spirit to be agile and alert. Be as gentle as a dove and as wise as a serpent. Pray that you will have the proper tools for the job, regardless of caliber, when you are called upon for the supreme sacrifice for your wife, kids, and community. Any sphere larger than that and we're right back to where we are now, crying about being ruled by those we have not concented to be ruled by.
Yes, if you look back, Chalky is accelerating his dictatorial powers!
He may have actually been ordered to start an armed rebellion by steadily building up the violence against US citizens.
But you miss the point.
First, this is 5.56mm NATO ammo, not .223. Second, the points are these:
1) Army surplus 5.56mm 62 grain green tip steel penetrators are the 2nd most sold ammunition on the market
2) This ammo was inexpensive and capable. I could buy 1000 rounds for $350 a couple months back.
3) This ammo is what our military uses. So banning it for citizens, gives TPTB an edge over us.
4) Most other 5.56 and .223 ammo is much more expensive and in fact not nearly as "barrier blind" as is this ammo.
This is just another step towards total government control by Obama, Jarrett, and their Communist friends.
Undoubtedly, but my point is that in the short run, the 855 ammo is but a small part of the total spectrum, but look at the online sales and everything is gone, not just the 855.
We have known that this was coming for years, never knowing quiet when but coming. How much do we stock pile? I don't know, but I do know we need to, and not in the last 24hrs.
If we lose our liberties, we obviously deserve to do so if what we see today means anything. Its coming, and has been for a long long time.
Like economist would say..."but we never saw it coming"?
Jesus Christ, these people are NOT communists! They're state capitalist control freaks!
Obama knows the history theory and practice of communism very well. Whatever you want to call him, he put a lot of energy and passion into that, starting in childhood under Frank Marshall Davis the card carrying communist, who very plausibly got busy with Obama's underage mom with just the right timing, and who Obama referred to as a father figure in his books, and who resembles Obama far more than the Kenyan write-in father. Ahem.
A similar action in the late 1700s or early 1800s might read like this:
"The government issues a ban on iron or steel balls that can be used in civilian muskets (black powder rifles) because of their ability to penetrate more than lead."
No constitutional right to ammunition.
...to keep and bear arms, SHALL not be infringed.
Now, if you want to be a "too cute by half" fuckwad, and argue ammo bans do not infringe on your God given birthright to be armed and defend yourself, well, go fuck yourself. I mean nothing personal, but I hope to live long enough to do my duty and send a couple of your type to hell.
Use a bayonet. He'll think it's ironic.
A State of Justice being one of the Requirements for a Democracy (Even if we now have a Military Republic)... it seems to me if the State of Justice Fails, THEN the people would need to have Arms & Ammo.
Else how do you resecure the State of Justice where Banks get Prosecuted by the DOJ & FBI?
I'm just saying if Fraud is rampant, financial report are falsified, Asset Sales are found to be Rife with Fraud (like in Sub-Prime Houses, Autos, Student Loans and Derivatives created there of)... well the Country has Fallen, and the State of Justice is known to have Fallen.
How do you resolve "Official Disregard for US Constitutional Powers, Rules, and Individual & States Rights?"
"Each of us has a natural right — from God —
to defend his person, his liberty, and his property."
-Bastiat
The Constitution does not grant rights.
The Constitution merely codifies rights that come from nature. Clearly, if ammunition is required to defend ourselves, our posessions, and our liberty, then ammunition is what we shall have.
I tend to agree with that!
I tend to agree with that!
Amen to that brother!
IMO, the question goes to who died and left him king to issue decrees?
That's the primary Constitutional Issue.
You really cant be that fuckin stupid. The fundamental right to self defense wouldbe a constitutional impossibility without the means. Firearms are the means. Just how the fuck do you propose to remove the means from the right without destroying the right itself???
"No constitutional right to ammunition."
...lol...wut?
"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."
Which part of "being necessary to the security of a free state" being infringed upon are you having a problem with exactly, counselor?
It is NOT written that way, its about the forethought of those who crafted language, knowing of the abuse of centralized power that was sure to come from what they were doing by creating ANY law, the ability of the people to oppose it and them with force upon force.
What are you a graduate of Columbia J-School?
yrbmegr, you ignorant SLUT...bwahahahahahahahaaa, come get mine!
You have the constitutional right to keep and bear arms, meaning no government can come between you and a gun (so I should be able to walk into a gun store and take one). But the Second Amendment, by its very words, does not prevent government from regulating, legislating, or otherwise controlling ammunition, accessories, or other gun-related paraphernalia that is not ARMS.
In order to bare arms, one must have the ability to roll up shirt sleeves, or where short sleeves, or wear a tank top, or wear no shirt at all. You cannot translate that to, because you have a body, and a right to it, that cannot also have the right to have arms and legs!
In order to bear arms, one must have the ability to shoot them, and thus possess ammunition to do so, that is all...
Follow that logic fella, I sure hope so, cause if not, you are missing your OTHER brain cell...please do get a basic eudmacation, it would serve you well in life!
"Bear" and "shoot" are different words with different meanings. One appears in the Second Amendment. The other does not.
If your gonna bear arms, you are also gonna shoot...you gonna go to war with a gun and no bullets? you gonna go to the shooting range for what? you gonna go hunting with an empty rifle?
one stands with the other.
I actually know the difference.
Jeez....just when you thought the ammo hoarding and shortages were over.....I guess the shooting sports industry must have made some sort of contribution to him to get this going. That is the only logical explanation....no others make any sense.
There is something either very big happening behind the scenes or this has got to be one of the cleverest marketing tactics by the gun industry that I have even seen.
I was at Cabelas earlier and .223 was completely out. Same at Cheaper than Dirt.
Absolute madness.
Noah Webster, Founding Father of the Republic.
The SS109/M855 cartridge is military ammo, pure and simple. While it is not a true "armor piercing" round it is capable of penetrating 3/8" thick steel plate as indicated in the following from Wikipedia (comparing the new enhanced version of the M855 round with the original version):
The M855A1 offers several improvements other than being lead-free. It is slightly more accurate, has better consistency of effect in regards to wounding ability, and has an increased penetrating capability. The round can better penetrate steel, brick, concrete, and masonry walls, as well as body armor and sheet metal. It penetrates 3?8 in (9.5 mm) of mild steel at 350 meters, which the M855 can only do at 160 meters.
As indicated in the text above, the SS109/M855 round really did not provide the type of performance needed by the military so they came up with the enhanced version - the M855A1. There are other types of rounds for AR-15's out there that have much better performance than the M855 so IMHO all this talk about the M855 being banned is just a distraction. Actually if a dedicated shooter wants best performance in any type of round hand loading is the way to go.
Thanks for a good post.
But, as for hand loading, try that when it's all out war.
I would rather have a 1000 rounds of factory-loaded ammo, any day. Consistant performance, and I know what the rounds are going to do.
In an all out war against tyranny, it will be best to have many magazines of pre-loaded, factory ammo.
It will not matter if you have 10 rounds of +P ammo. What will matter are tactics, communication, and the proper usage of force.
Obama and Tim Cook can hire a new poster child for FCC title II internet advertising… iWatch, Gay marriage, legalizing drugs, tribal iJogging footwear, and research in addressing bipolar symptoms after coming down from a meth induced elevation.
Fuck you Obama, owning guns is a right under law.
Atomizer, law has Nothing to do with it. Our constitution and Bill of rights simply enumerate that with which we are born.
No man can give us this freedom, and no man shall take it away. We can only give it away. I do not wish to give it away, and hope, when the situation requires, I have the balls to do what needs to be done.
12 Gauge Dragons Breath
winks
It's fun
You read my mind Atomizer.
Aside from sawing one of my dad’s three iron to engage in a bottle rocket wars between two teams. No one got hurt. We also ran various configurations with gun powder & dropped a blue tip match. Hours of adolescent laughter.
What ass wipe Kommander in Chief doesn’t realize, an old talent to reshell bullets still exists. It will cut into Obama’s revenue expectations to pay off ObamaCare, ObamaNet investment tranches.
/LOL
We were wicked kids. Grew up without liberal beliefs. Still do today. We use to go fishing with H-100's strapped to rocks. All you needed was your net. No government fishing licence needed. Fishing poles were for sissy's.
Kaboom. Fill the iced cooler with fish. Just laugh at the shit we did as kids..
"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
Thomas Jefferson
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear
arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in
government."
Thomas Jefferson
Rebarrel them for 5.45x39
As democracy is perfected, the office of the President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be occupied by a downright fool and complete narcissistic moron.
–H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920
As the traitor of Obama and his gangs cannot take your guns away they're talking your bullets away.
The 2nd Amendment to our Constitution is a HEDGE against a tyrannical government.
When the government fears the people, you have Liberty.
When the people fear the government, you have Tyranny.
The whole point to the 2nd Amendment is that American Citizens have the God-given Right
to Keep And Bear the SAME ARMS as does our MILITARY.
The 62 grain XM855/M855 green tip steel penetrator 5.56mm is the same ammo that is used by our military!
Banning, or proposing to ban, by decree of the ATF, the same ammo for civilian use is UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
Already, as citizens, we are not allowed to have:
Full Auto
Apache Attack Helicopters
Tanks
Howitzers
RPG's
Grenades, and much more.
And now, through REGULATION, a US government agency (at the asking of Obama) is proposing to ban the Army surplus ammo for civilian use!
This is a Direct attack on our 2nd Amendment. Period.
Banning this ammunition is akin to having to fight the British in 1776 with pistols whilst they had muskets.
Simply put, 62 grain M855 ammo in 5.56 is a barrier-blind ammunition designed to go through steel and kill the target in cover.
And they would like to keep that advantage.
So, keep buying your 55 grain sporting round. I'll keep buying the 62 grain green tips as long as I can...
How about MK318 Mod 0 SOST?
I've been looking at an M-1 Abrams, but... - MPG is going to be rough. - Parking at my work and home isn't quite big enough.
Impeachment time.
Necessity is the mother of invention girls and boys.
We have all heard of the plastic guns that can be made in a 3D printer. Ever heard of an air gun. Pump gun, etc? How many ways can you make a pressurized gas? I used a rented propane nail gun a few years back.
Ammo? How far are you trying to shoot? You want tht special bullet for line distances. But at 50 yards or closer? Deer slugs? Multiple dear slugs? Waded aluminum foil? You can use a 3D printer to fabricate with almost any king of material. Certainly cermaics - which you can then bake in a kiln. Certainly lead. No mold/casting/cooling required.
A high end sling shot - wrist rocket - will kill with a wad of aluminum foil.
Be careful Herr Soetoro. You might just have made the situation you so detest much worse in your coordinate frame than you can possibly have imagined?
What's that? You want to inspect my house and sieze my 3D printer? We might have a little altercation over that.
Gosh, where are all the freedom-loving Putinistas? Surely they have something to say about this development threatening the major resistance movement to the nascent NWO.
Knuckles, you're right (no pun intended). That pendulum swings both ways.
Once they ban all the ammo there will be other means. The govt sucks at fighting guerilla warfare.
If there comes a time for guerilla warfare in this country, the central government will have long since ceased to exist.
You are right. Read...
Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla
by David Kilcullen
ISBN-13: 978-0199737505
Littoral, densely populated, highly networked, feral mega-cities.
Mogadishu, Sao Paulo, Karachi, Mumbai, Lagos, Dhaka.
The list will soon include Los Angeles, New York, and Houston.
The 5.56 is the .223 Remington round. So not really a big problem, unless you use military surplus. Also something for a few people who make fun of my rifle habits.
M1A1 BITCHEZ!!!!
Wrong.
You can shoot .223 caliber rounds in barrels stamped 5.56mm, but you cannot shoot 5.56mm rounds in chambers marked for .223.
So this is a widely held misconception. Even the manufacturer's manuals tell you this.
The 5.56 round yields more pressure and is dangerous to shoot in .223 barrels.
The .223 caliber round is more of a sporting round. Yes, the 5.56 round in question (M855 NATO) is military surplus.
But that's the whole point: We simply must be allowed, per the 2nd Amendment, to purchase the same ammo as does our military!
And the one specifically in question is desgined as a heavier, barrier-blind, bullet that can penetrate steel and then kill the enemy.
Not to mention the M855 surplus rounds are the 2nd best selling round and (used to be) cheap to buy in bulk.
Regardless the 223 rem, the M855 and the ss109 all penetrate soft armor worn by police. The whole political argument is fucking retarded....
Correct.
According to The Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers' Institute (SAAMI), .223 is loaded at 40K psi. Military 5.56X45 is loaded to 50K psi.
Make sure the rifle is stamped "5.56X45." If in doubt, just use .223.
Wrong! If they ban the m855 round, that represents 1/2 of the options we have in ammunition to shoot.
You know that you can shoot .223 out of your 5.56 rifle, right? Alot of the varmint rounds are a hell of a lot more devestating than the military ball stuff and it will still go through soft armor.
I assume you're taking about the M1A. It's a capable rifle, but I like my AR-10 better. Got both.
An M1A1 is a main battle tank. You probably don't have one of those. I'l admit, it would be far superior to a 5.56 rifle!
Wendigo, Actually the M1A1 was the 30 caliber folding paratrooper carbine manufactured by GM's Inland division from 1943 through 1945. The military has so many things designated M1, M1A, M1A1-A2 etc it's mind boggeling. Lynn
State of Wyoming Constitution:
Sec. 24. Right to bear arms. The right of citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and of the state shall not be denied.
Sec. 7. No absolute, arbitrary power. Absolute, arbitrary power over the lives, liberty and property of freemen exists nowhere in a republic, not even in the largest majority.
Enough said.
Now, if anyone is curious about these rights, I'll be shopping at Walmart
exercising my right to Open Carry my S&W 1911TA .45 w/Crimson Trace laser sometime next week (no permit needed)...
And next week, I'll be outside, in my backyard, practicing with my Armalite AR-10 7.62 x 51mm with Burris Eliminator III Ballistic LaserScope,
with bullet-drop and windage compensation for one shot takedowns at 750 yards...
looks like I now have more "gold" than I previously thoght I had.
its baby steps with the gun grabbers.
The reason the government is going after this ammo and this rifle is because in a revolution they would be the most effective weapon and ammo in the hends of the peoples.
Surely, this is evidence enough that the banking cartel which controls the government has a slavery plan for the American people. And slavery only works when the guards have the guns and the slaves are prisoners.
J.R. I find it difficult to disaggree, with you.
That usd/jpy chart looks OVERSOLD.
Ha! Obama knows how to boost the economy, just start a little gun or ammo scare and watch the money fly out of peoples wallets.
underground machine toolin' is probably undergoin' a nice reniassance as we speak.
You can build perfectly functional firearms in any competent machine shop with parts from an automobile junkyard.
ZH sleeping on the job. This has been out for some time. Non the less, here is my advice. Grab your 7.62x39 or whatever East Bloc ammo ASAP. WHY? WAR.
Zero is just a paid cover moron for the wealthy elite. He studied Constitutional law so he could better fuck it. He and his colleagues are viewed as a laughing stock by many internationally red crayons and all.
Most every donkey has a fundamental inability to understand the concept of inalienable rights. Arms means firearms and ammunition not just some types of firearms and some types of ammunition.
Actually, I am not sure he has ever read anything.
Unless his dad, Frank Davis, had him read some Marx aloud while Frank was giving him a BJ.
As Professor Moriarty says in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows:
"You see, hidden within the unconcious is an insatiable desire for conflict.
So you're not fighting me, so much as you are the human condition.
All I want to do is own the bullets and the bandages.
War on an industrial scale is inevitable.
They'll do it to themselves, within a few years.
All I have to do is wait."
Of course, this statement could also be made by Lucifer.
I think this guy is mentally unstable. Does this facist son of a bitch realize he is going to be a common citizen of Kenya again in less than two years , his records will be released and he will be outed as a homosexual in absolute disgrace.
While I don't like the idea of government banning one particular type of ammo, there are (or could be) plenty of alternative bullets to that one.
Frankly, if you're shooting 5.56, you're a pussy. That thing has no knockdown power at all, and you're going to have to go for headshots anyway. The major reason it was adopted was so that troops could carry more ammo. If you're into "spray and pray", it's a great bullet.
The ban is on civilian use of military grade (army surplus) 5.56mm 62 grain green tip steel penetrator ammo.
It will go through steel and then kill the person behind it. It is much more powerful (3200 fps*) than you are giving it credit. The kinetic energy
of the bullet at 100 yards or even 300 yards will rip your guts out and leave you DEAD. Sure there's more powerful rounds, but the
5.56x45 and the M16 were designed in the '60's to provide a short to medium range combat rifle capability to the US Army.
Your comments reflect utter ignorance in the field of weaponry.
All combat weapons are a compromise of power, weight, ammo availability, effectiveness, and ease of use.
By far, the spray and pray weapons of choice world-wide are the AK-47 variations. My Windham Weaponry M4 5.56 will be VERY effective, when the time comes.
And, FYI, the main reason they WANT to ban this ammo, is to give the government an EDGE versus civilians. Period.
Correction: 3200 fps is most 55 grain 5.56mm x 45mm. Most 62 grain 5.56mm x 45mm is around 3025 fps.
And Kinetic Energy; Ke = (1/2) m * v^2
It's all about the velocity (though more mass tends to hold the energy better, down-range. Hence there's always a trade-off).
Yep, it sure is. "It will go through steel and then kill the person behind it." Everything you say. I'd like somebody now to list the deaths of law enforcement officers shot and killed with this ammo in this country by US citizens in the last ten years. Please list on....
Follow. the. money.
McConnell and Boehner. Two tits on a bull.
twin twats...useless...no more conservative than hitlery...houston, we have a problem!
Went to Walmart today and the entire rifle ammo shelf was empty - apparently the third run on ammo since Obama took office has already started. People were not just raiding the 223/5.56 ammo but also grabbing any caliber that could be shot from a rifle.
The shelves were overflowing two weeks ago - so apparently our "Dear Leader" has can check off another "mission accomplished" - shelves are bare and 223/5.56 ammo prices are up - if you can find any at all.
I'm wondering how much longer the 100+ million gun owners will put up with this lawlessness? I've already written my congressmen and the ATF for all of the good that will do.
Order on-line if you can - easy, fast, and great prices...
Read my lips:
It is all gone.
Maybe there's a run on M855, but check Slick Guns, Gunbot.net, Wikiarms, etc. It looks like someone is slowing down Gunbot big time.
Zero is the best firearms salesperson in the world and DiFi is right behind. Dirty Harry is very good too when he isn't serving as a punching bag.
Prices are up for sure, but I see in stock. Some states, counties, and cities have restrictions on shipping ammo.
You would have to expect as a matter of course that Chalky would order DDOS attacks on all ammo websites.
Er... no, it isn't.
http://gunbot.net/ammo/rifle/556/
http://ammoseek.com/ammo/5.56x45mm-nato?ikw=M855
Um, okay, you're right. The same box of 1000 rounds that I could buy at Cheaper Than Dirt for $349.95 two months ago,
is now $699.50 per your links.
Looks like I've got some buying to do, next week.
You're right.
And this info (about the proposed ban) actually went out about 10 days ago.
Even my local Tactical Supply store has run out of 62 grain 5.56 LAP.
Cheaper Than Dirt sold out immediately, of their popular Lake City XM855 62 grain green tip steel penetrator ammo.
Two months ago, I could buy 1000 rounds at CTD for $350. I should have bought more.
My Walmart is out of stock on just about any and all ammunition. If you try to talk about this to the Walmart guy,
he will ignore you and turn around.
There are reports that Walmart PULLED ALL OF THIS AMMO IMMEDIATELY.
One guy said he had just bought 1000 rounds of it, and then when this news hit, he went back to his Walmart
and they told him it was all gone. This was after they had told him (the week before) that they had so much
of it on hand, in pallets, by boxes of 1000 rounds, that they could never sell it all!
So is Walmart in cahoots with the ATF? When there's a proposed ban, knowing that the Walmart owners are
mostly Obama lovers, does Walmart instantly pull the ammo from the shelves?
The Tylers should do some investigating to find out whether Walmart instantly pulled their stocks
of this particular ammo off of their shelves, when the ATF proposed ban was announced (or even before it was announced).
P.S.
I, too, have written Barrasso, Enzi, and Lummis.
Nary a word.
P.S.S.
The MSM media, including Fox News, is complicit, as they have barely discussed this, or "Net Neutrality".
Now that pot is legal, the runners from outside the country have a new and profitable item to bring in. And bring it in they will.
All I have to say is....
Molon Labe, bitchezzz
Oballm'855 can KMA!
He can stick his executive order in his brown hole! pucker up you miserable communist carbuncle...you are festering wound upon our land!
can't wait until 2016...oh wait...we'll just get more of the same, ugh
I'm not such a believer of putting huge numbers of projectiles down range......... Unless you're talking metal storm or something similar..........if you're serious about this you need to be a lot smarter ..... Analyze tactics and response and plan accordingly they put snipers at 500 yards. You put em at 1000...... or zero the high ground but whatever you choose it has been shown again and again the mind is where the war is won or lost........
I prefer this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnxkfLe4G74
it will soon be gone, enjoy it while it lasts
I've owned/collected semi-automatic rifles for 15 years now. I have Chinese made, Russian made SKS's, American made AR's. Anyone who has been even half paying attention since Obama was first elected has been stockpiling since 2008. I certainly have.
The "prepper" reference for an AR rifle is a bit cliche. Better or comparable "prepper" weapons exist depending on the situation required
The Tactical Semi-Auto .22's are almost as lethal if I can get enough rounds off at the targets head. rounds are incredibly cheap and easy to store by the thousands. 110 round clips are also light when loaded.
My crossbow is absolutely deadly - and the target will never hear it coming if used properly (nor will anyone else)
But my favorite defensive prepper weapon is my Benelli - the semi-auto shotgun - granted its limited in rounds but good luck avoiding that spray if you're in my way. the bonus is the 12 gauge is super easy to roll your own
oh - obama and anyone who supports him sucks - just for the record. bring it :)
15 years of gun experience and still calling them clips. Unless it's a garand a mauser or a Mosin then it ain't a clip...
nope. ive been collecting semi auto rifles for the last 15. my gun "experience" as you called it, goes back 35 years to my youthful days of hunting with my grandfather. i also said "roll your own" which wasnt the proper way to say buy a freaking loader you douchebag
So I would ask every congressman: Did you swear an oath to the Constitution of the United States, or did you swear an oath to the President of the United States?
Please cut and paste this to every senator and represenative in your district. Regardless of an R or a D after their name, they must be made aware that we know that both intend to screw us all for their own gain.
The British tyrant went after the colonist's powder and ball in 1775. Look how that turned out. Obama really has declared war on American citizens.
Already more Americans have died by the hands of obama's illegal alien invaders than have been killed by terrorism. And even now he plans to quadruple the number of ISIS supporting Syrian "refugees" brought into this country. Obama decreed Border Patrol agents must let drunk illegal aliens go, free to kill innocent law abiding American citizens and that the BP would not be held accountable for any deaths that occur. A drunk illegal alien means more to obama and the progressives than an American citizen life.
And of course you might remember the progressive hero obama GAVE HIMSELF the power to kill American citizens with out judicial review anywhere anytime. Only a murderer does that.
I live in fear for my life and my family's lives, Obama and the progressive criminals infesting the Federal Government clearly want us dead. The only reason to disarm a law abiding population is to be able to kill them without resistance.
Obama is clearly a murderer, has commited thousands of murders(not counting fast and furious) and must be arrested immediately.
Grimaldus
The largest army in the world is America's Heartland Patriots. Somewhere between 150-200 million law abiding gun owners, wives of gun owners, and children of gun owners. We/They all know how,when and what to shoot. Barack Hussein's muslim marxist arrogant elitism has already alienated the police forces, the entire military, through denigration and castigation. Leadership is not obtained by beating it into the followers. It is earned. Barack has no one standing with him to protect him and to carry out his dictates. It is April 1775 all over again. We are standing at the birdge at Concord. Barack is a cornered rat.
Obozo works for the UN.
He's a foreign agent.
Arrest him.
From Rahm Israel Emanuel to Michael Bloomberg, from George Soros to Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, from Barbara Boxer to Dianne Feinstein and on and on and on...
South Africa, and be not fooled, this is YOUR fate also Whites in America, UNLESS and UNTIL you RISE UP!!!
http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/
I put my faith in God and the Mauser
~Boer General Ben Viljoen
'You must carry your gun and your Bible together at once'
~ Afrikaner Werner Selzer, 2010
http://www.nrahq.org/
http://gunowners.org/
http://www.gundigest.com/article/ObamaExpose/
When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."
--Rudyard Kipling
"The Gods of the Copybook Heading"
The modern democracies of the West, with their philosophies of the stomach and the stock exchange, cannot inspire the people nor protect them. They despise nationhood and despise race. But without our national and racial backbones how shall we stand erect? With quicksands as our foundation how shall we build? How shall we be true to ourselves if we have no selves? Our race is what we are; it is our form. It is our fathers and mothers and brothers and sisters and wives and children. They are the race. How then shall we count it of little worth? Shall we despise our own flesh and blood? Is that what modern democracy is supposed to mean? Is that what Christianity is supposed to mean?
White man, think again! by Anthony Jacob, Johannesburg 1965
"In the late 1700's the madness of the French Revolution...infected many Frenchmen, and the Black plantation workers were encouraged to revolt. When they did they brutally murdered every White man, woman, and child in the colony and declared Haiti a republic. What had been the richest and most productive part of the New World promptly sank back to an African level of squalor, misery, and poverty. The roads and cities built by the French fell into ruin. A peculiarly African mixture of anarchy and despotism took the place of French law and order."
"Haiti was the model for the future. Every European [White] nation is moving toward the Haitian solution of the race problem...Just a few more whites to eliminate, and paradise will be here."
Sold 8 cases to a local gun shop yesterday for a 48% return. Moral hazard profits... I was just sitting back and waiting.
Everybody needs to armor up and buy real steel core armor piercing ammunition for higher caliber rifles. .308, 30-06. .303, whatever. Make it the most popular firearm and ammunition sold in 2015.
They want a fight. We should fight for our lives, because after the ammo, that is exactly what they are going to start taking.
FUCK THEM.
Its hard to argue with most sentiments here. I would only add that proficiency will be as important as any potentiality of the weapon or ammunition. Given that IF the worst were to occur, where we would have the real need for sustained self defense, ammo will always be of limited supply, so we best make sure we can operate and maintain our systems and most importantly be able to hit at what we aim.
Aim small, miss small...if it comes to that my friend!
I remain very concerned that "they" would not have acquired over a billion rounds of ammunition unless they plan to use it. On us!
Stay thirsty my friends!
Those big cartridges can drive most any composition bullet you'd find in a hunting store through any body armour out the back side too. 7mm Magnum, the popular hunting chambering, will splash through 3/4" of hard carbon steel, from memory of childhood plinking vs .243 or .220 swift, which had about the effect of the .308 or very nearly same 7.62 NATO. In soft points. Now, a penetrator round, remind me what is the point.
blame obama all you want. i blame limp dick congress for allowing it. worthless pimps.
Blame the citizenry of the USA. They have unplugged from responsibility and engagement, This nation is ripe, I mean Chekist/gulag/Buchenwald ripe for culling. And most people would just shut up and sit quiet becasue they didn't want to jeopardize their pension/tax refund/mortgage payment abilility.
I give us 2-4 years. And I do not blame the joos, nor worship Putin, love GMO tech, don't fear Fukushima, etc...
Bumbo Claught mon...
I would concur with you, well except the GMO part, but the American sheeple are asleep at the wheel, AND are ignorant to what America stands for!
I give us a few or more months...by the fall at the latest, the experiment will either be dead, or we will be fighting for our very existence at the very least.
Do you have Jamaican roots fella? If so, you would be very aware of the years 1971-72...
Seriously! I can't believe how easily people are sucked into fighting irrelevant issues which thereby accept the fundamental error the predators depend upon!
Think about the phrase "armor piercing ammunition".
If it is legitimate to ban "armor piercing ammunition", then it is also legitimate to ban "skin piercing ammunition" or "paper piercing ammunition". Or for that matter, they can simply define "armor" as being "on atom thick" (in which case ALL ammuntion is "armor piercing ammunition".
Don't be suckered! ANY prohibition of ANY weapons is utterly invalid.
Don't be suckered to fight a battle that accepts their false premises!
High Frequency Algorithm trading bots are people too. Just like Offshore Labor Globalization to avoid paying taxes. Everyone is just people dodging taxes. Isn’t that right Grandpa Warren? Won’t those irretrievable IRS emails burn some assholes?
/Sarc
ummm, you may want to re-read the post, Obozo, by executive decree, the tyrant is banning ammunition, not weapons. So, with that said:
Don't be suckered! ANY prohibition of ANY AMMUNITION is utterly invalid.
There, fixed it for ya!
But you had the gist of it...
If you ban one part of a weapon that makes it not work, you have banned the weapon. Simple as that.
I was point out the falacy of your argument because he did not ban the guns, oh he has tried and failed at that, he now tries do outlaw the ammo. Now you come back to be with the same BS arguement? The round is not a part of the weapon, it is a supply to the weapon.
Okay, dimwit, when they ban you from breathing air, we will ALL say "they didn't kill you, they just banned your air". Putz.
This is precisely like saying prohibiting you from opening your mouth and typing is not a violation of free speech, because your mouth is not speech. Based upon your game, anything can be justified.
+100!!
Here is a link to all 7 types of 556 ammo:
http://www.armystudyguide.com/content/army_board_study_guide_topics/m16a...
If the 855 ban happens, the rest will be next!!
Anyone else seeing different? Looking at Gunbot.net and the prices of in stock .223 and 5.56 don't look much different than before this news.
UPDATE: Never mind - it looks like Gunbot is not accurately seeing out of stock notices. In stock, but at much higher prices.
I have lost a lot over the past few years, but could always get unlucky and lose more.
Any rifle round can go through soft armor like cops wear (non plate).
In this economy, I can't afford an AR-15. My 30-06 will do just fine. I can knock a fly off a nipple at a half mile.
By any measure of common sense, the Tyrant should have already been impeached and convicted.
Of course, having (in reality) only 1 political party, that will not happen.
Rest assured, he will probably do everything in his power to create a confrontation between The People and his Outlaw Regime. I did not think in 2008 it would be as grotesque a parody of a Republic as we now have.
We are the Resistance.
I agree. And he will only become more dangerous and more aggressive as his legal days of his term near an end.
Well, next we could wind up with his illegal term!
I would consider Martial Law under his order just such a thing
You?
technically it's Bush's 4th term
Jackass Zero and Hold'em continue to pursue illegal legislation and actions that have nothing to do with fighting actual crime.
BATF should be administering a fucking hell of a party not being such tools.
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This is akin to removing the 50 caliber ball from the 1770’s flint locks.
Nothing more, nothing less.
They are moving against us, like a chess game.
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V-V
When is it going to be the time, to start thinking about the time, that it'll be the time to start pushing back, hard?
And how hard will you push back?
Find an armory near you.
Get armed immediately, or soon.
Your ass is grass if you don't.
When the government is the criminal everyone must be ready to make an armed arrest.
MAKE YOUR OWN AMMO, DO NOT OBEY
Its good to be the king
Just ignore the idiot. These aren't laws and they don't matter. Disobey and nullify.