At the end of February, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms issued a lengthy epistle on “determining whether certain projectiles are ‘primarily intended for sporting purposes.'” Anyone who ...
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — A proposal to ban a bullet that can pierce armor has upset the gun industry and its supporters. The bullet in question is the M855 “green tip,” which is used in the popular AR-15 ...
TRUE: The BATF has proposed a reclassification of "5.56mm constituent projectiles of SS109 and M855 cartridges" from "primarily used for sporting purposes" to "armor piercing ammunition." FALSE: ...
A popular type of ammunition for AR-15 semiautomatic rifles won’t disappear from shelves after a federal agency reconsidered a proposed ban. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ...
The gun lobby marshaled thousands of comments from gun owners and sparked an outcry in Congress last month to defeat a regulatory proposal that would have banned a certain type of ammunition, but the ...
The White House said Monday that President Obama believes a ban on bullets commonly used with the AR-15 rifle will save police officers’ lives. “We are looking at additional ways to protect our brave ...
White has a legitimate question as to why the M855 green tip ammo is so popular with American sportsmen. Well, the answer is not that people want to use it against the government or law enforcement or ...
President Obama failed to enact his anti-gun agenda legislatively because it is at odds with what the American people want. So he has pulled out his cellphone and his pen and gone to work. This time ...
The old joke about government covering up wrongdoing is, “Move along folks, nothing to see here.” But that’s exactly what the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) told Americans ...
At the end of February, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms issued a lengthy epistle on “determining whether certain projectiles are ‘primarily intended for sporting purposes.'” Anyone who ...