It looks like those who said the Obama Administration would strike while the iron is hot may have been correct, and the Administration may be doing it in a way that does not require them to even get a vote in Congress. In this morning's edition of the Shooting Wire, Jim Shepherd writes that Canadian officials have it on "good authority" our State Department may be on the verge of cutting off all imports of certain calibers of ammunition. [More]I'd heard stirrings on this, but held back because of this "rumor control" piece from NRA-ILA:
Additional rumors have recently been circulating about stopping gun and/or ammunition imports. And once again, NRA and representatives of firearm importers know of no real measures proposing this, yet.Who knows what's going on?
[Via John54 and Vanderboegh]
8 comments:
This may be a blessing in disguise. Perhaps it will stir up the American ammo making machine.
Now, if we could just adress the foreign weapons. FYI, the only small arms manufactured by an American company carried by our troops is the M4(M16).
If the euro weenies decided to put the screws to us - we would be in trouble.
Maybe remchester would go back to manufacturing our sporting arms - instead of importing crap from Serbia, Turkey etc/. Or tool up to produce military small arms again.
Well, to answer your rhetorical...
The NRA is not the group in the "know"...
Turns out it's an ammo EXPORT ban. State is going to reclassifiy military calibers as Arms Control material, so US manufacturers can't sell to Canadian civilians. (Per shootingwire.com)
Try and get ammo from China. This crap has already happened we are just seeing the number of countries start to be added to the list we have already.
Last post makes sense - state would only be involved in export - not import.
I can tell you from bringing things into New Zealand and from NZ to here, that they have turned the US export into a nightmare.
"[Dept. of] State is going to reclassifiy military calibers as Arms Control material."
Just like Mexico does. 9mm, 5.56mm(.223-cal.), 7.62, .308, the parade begins.
North American Union. United we fall to the lowest common denominator of the lowest, commonest socialist country.
The .204 Ruger uppers are starting to make sense to me now.
The Shooting Wire report is... not exactly clearly worded. I read it 3 different times and have at least that many takes on the subject.
It could have been written more clearly.
Dear Anonymous. I coun't dissagree more. I was afraid people would look at the import ban this way. This is step one in a plan to regulate ammo out of the hands of the average Joe. We need a supply that can't be touched by US regulators. If they pass an import ban they will then regulate ammo in a way that drives the cost through the roof. Don't be fooled into thinking this is good for jobs.
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