Fairfax, Va. – The National Rifle Association (NRA) was instrumental in stalling the Obama Administration’s initial attempt to ban
commonly used ammunition for the most popular rifle in America, the AR-15. The announcement that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms
and Explosives (BATFE) will suspend its proposed framework to ban M855 ammunition validates the NRA’s assertion that this effort was nothing
more than a political maneuver to bypass Congress and impose gun control on the American people.

The new M855A1 is exceptionally accurate. It is a bit hotter. I shot it at 600 and it seemed to be shooting like my 80s with a little more windage and about the same elevation.

Surprising we didn't hear the media go back and say at Sandy Hook and the 2012 Colorado Theater shooters used M855.

So funny to see in the pajama media the words Temporary and On Hold, not using the words Stopped and reversed like conservative news.

White House says Barry still committed to Gun Control, Gun Lobby is just causing a delay.

Everybody be sure to thank the 2AHawaii members that voted for the turd.

Seems like it all stems from AR pistols. If you can even call them a pistol.

No is walking around with an AR pistol stuck in their pants.  Which the police associations have confirmed.

In all fairness, we poor folks in Hawaii don't get to vote for the president. The election is decided before the polls close in Hawaii so voting for the Pres here is only symbolic.

Seems like it all stems from AR pistols. If you can even call them a pistol.

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(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.

I believe a case can be made that it's only symbolic everywhere else as well.

http://www.captainsjournal.com/2015/03/12/atf-wants-to-go-after-all-5-56-mm-ammunition-not-just-green-tip/

ATF Wants To Go After All 5.56 mm Ammunition, Not Just Green Tip

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Recall when we speculated about why the ATF had decided to hold its “green tip” ban in abatement?  Well, the questions are answered.

    The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives on Thursday raised new concerns about surplus military ammo used in popular AR-15 rifles and pistols just days after pulling back on a proposal to ban the ammo because it could threaten police safety.

    In a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing, ATF Director B. Todd Jones said all types of the 5.56 military-style ammo used by shooters pose a threat to police as more people buy the AR-15-style pistols.

    “Any 5.56 round” is “a challenge for officer safety,” he said. Jones asked lawmakers to help in a review of a 1986 bill written to protect police from so-called “cop killer” rounds that largely exempted rifle ammo like the 5.56 because it has been used by target shooters, not      criminals."
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So speculation of course ran wild as to the exact intent of the ATF.  Are they stupid?  Do they not really understand the technical issues they are dealing with?  But today B. Todd Jones answered those questions.  They are concerned about all 5.56 mm cartridges.  Of course they are.  But that .270 pointed soft point, shot from a necked down 30-06 cartridge from my bolt action deer hunting rifle?  Yes, that’s the one.  It will penetrate soft body armor too – lead ball, soft point, all of it.  So will lead ball 30-06.  So will lead ball .308.  So will lead ball 7 mm.  Virtually all rifle rounds (except .22LR and .22 WMR) will penetrate soft body armor because kevlar is specified to 9 mm rounds (as regards mass and velocity).

Jones knows that.  The ATF at large knows that.  What Jones is telling the Congress is that he wants their help in banning rifle ammunition.  Rifle ammunition.  All of it.  They will start with 5.56 mm ammunition, green tip, lead ball, pointed soft point – all of it.  Then they will make it clear that all other rifle ammunition is as lethal as 5.56 mm ammunition, so they need a ban on that too.

If the ATF can ban ammo that was originally designed for and intended for use in rifles, not pistols, simply because a pistol version that accepts that rifle ammo now exists, then there is nothing stopping the government from having the ATF contract the manufacture of a pistol for each and every caliber of rifle round.  If the standard for banning the ammo is that stupid, then meeting that definition would be easy and effectively create a ban on all rifles.  No bullets, no guns.