Ammo Ban

While we're writing comments in a vain hope to head off the ATF...

Have our comments ever changed what they've planned on doing even once?

All of this goes away if we could get a different, smaller, group to just eliminate the regulatory jurisdiction from the agency in question.

Congress could pass a law exempting M855 tomorrow.

It's their fault that BATFE has any authority at all in this matter.

It's OUR fault that Congress does nothing about it.  Collective our.  I am sure every one of my readers gets out there and votes and votes for liberty expanding candidates...

The thing is the loyal opposition isn't pro-gun for the most part.  They are merely not anti-gun.  I think we've got a bit of Stockholm Syndrome going on here sometimes.

The thing about M855 is that it really is armor piercing ammo according to 18 U.S.C. §§ 921(a)(17) (B) (i) because it has a steel core in it.  It's actually a miracle that we got an ATF ruling exempting it in the first place.  Ooops, I was right the first time.  The steel core isn't the entire core, so it doesn't meet the AP construction standard in the law, which means the exemption was applied erroneously in the first place.

What needs to change is the law.  That means someone in Congress has to actually introduce such changes to the floor.  Something that's been conspicuously lacking from the loyal opposition for a long damn time.

On the "plus" side of the coin is that with both the US Army and USMC going to "green" projectiles from green-tip projectiles...  Production of M855 was going to stop soon anyways.  Just look at the ready supply of .30-06 M2 AP...

There is even less doubt that M855A1 is an AP round with its entire composition being steel or copper alloy.

And judging a round AP based on composition is stupid.  .50 BMG M2 ball is a lead core FMJ, and it's going to punch thicker armor than even the most exotic 5.56 round made.  Changing the composition of the bullet makes it armor piercing compared to ball ammunition of the same type.  And even then not by much depending on the composition and thickness of the armor.