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Obama administration ‘supports’ 2nd Amendment, but takes steps to prevent its exercise
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First it was Attorney General Eric Holder’s trial balloon about renewing and making permanent the ban on so-called “assault weapons.”
When that didn’t gain traction with Congress, the Obama administration — it appears — decided to take a different tack.
Several days ago, ammunition manufacturers were advised that the Department of Defense has decided to no longer sell empty, once-fired cartridge cases as surplus to companies that polish and reload those empties, recycling them back into the marketplace. Instead, the empty brass will be destroyed so that it cannot be re-loaded, for commercial use, for law enforcement training, for hunting, target shooting, for anything. The result is that at least one company has announced it may no longer offer remanufactured ammunition in two important calibers, 308 Winchester and .223 Remington. The significance may be lost on laymen, but not on devoted shooters. Gordon "The Shootist" Hutchinson thinks it is an outrage.
These are the two calibers for which an overwhelming number of semiautomatic sport-utility rifles are designed.
If you can’t ban the gun, dry up the ammunition supply. That seems to be the popular theory about what is behind this change of policy. My colleague, David Codrea, also weighs in on this controversy here.
Then came the announcement from the National Park Service that it plans to eliminate lead ammunition and fishing tackle from national parks by next year. While the announcement focused on eliminating lead fishing lures, sinkers and leaded line, and lead bullets used for culling animals — an idea that literally lit the collective fuse of the nation’s sportsmen — there’s something else afoot here. This would also prevent legally-armed, licensed private citizens from carrying traditional lead ammunition in their defensive handguns. A rule change that took effect earlier this year, amid considerable controversy, allows licensed concealed carry in national parks. But if you can’t carry common ammunition in those handguns, it may discourage citizens from actually carrying their sidearms under the new rule.
President Obama announced the other day that he is considering sending the National Guard to patrol our southern border. This isn’t to keep illegal aliens out, but to ostensibly prevent guns from the United States going south to equip drug gangs, a patently ridiculous notion because machine guns, grenades and rocket launchers are not typically available at gun stores or gun shows. But this is a manifestation of the “blame America first” mentality of the Left, and if you can narrow the blame to American gun owners and the firearms industry, all the better!
You can do something about this. Contact the White House and your congressional representatives and tell them to knock it off.
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