ATF Shelves Ban on M855/SS109 Ammo

[Fort Tom]

Excellent article.  Makes point clearly, without all of the legal jargon.

 

Thanks.

[Cali_Ed]

Might just sell my 556 and just use my sweet sweet 308. Either buy a bolt action or just bunch of powder and projos

[slugger43]

^^^   All the time, man. 

Oh hell, yeah!  That's one cool pic.  Gotta send that to the two Turd Senators from Washington State who hate guns.    

[planeflyer21]

This article is from The Federalist.  Best piece I've seen yet on all the M855 crap.  It's a long-ish read, but very well worth the time:

 

The Obama Administration’s M855 Ammo Ban Is Blatantly Lawless

 

Great article, very thorough.

 

With the author's reference to "the people who wrote the law knew how ammunition is manufactured", intentionally choosing a careful wording, I would make the same claim about the "lack of a third decimal place" denoting .22 ammunition.

 

In manufacturing, when a blueprint calls out a tolerance for a non-critical dimension, a lack of a third decimal place denotes a plus/minus tolerance of 0.015".

 

Using the author's same reasoning about the lawmakers' ammunition knowledge, surely enough lawmakers in 1986 had metal shop when they were in highschool.

[Sisco]

I don't particularly like M855 and was thinking of selling my inventory at a premium right after replacing it with M193. Not ripoff pricing, mind you, but make enough to help fund another purchase. I bought it back in the day of 27 cents a round,  PMC X Tac, and 32 cents a round Lake City. Think I will sit tight for a while.

Edited March 11, 2015 by Sisco