NOTICE TO THOSE COMMENTING ON THE ARMOR PIERCING AMMUNITION EXEMPTION FRAMEWORK
Thank you for your interest in ATF’s proposed framework for determining whether certain projectiles are “primarily intended for sporting purposes” within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. 921(a)(17)(C). The informal comment period will close on Monday, March 16, 2015. ATF has already received more than 80,000 comments, which will be made publicly available as soon as practicable.
Although ATF endeavored to create a proposal that reflected a good faith interpretation of the law and balanced the interests of law enforcement, industry, and sportsmen, the vast majority of the comments received to date are critical of the framework, and include issues that deserve further study. Accordingly, ATF will not at this time seek to issue a final framework. After the close of the comment period, ATF will process the comments received, further evaluate the issues raised therein, and provide additional open and transparent process (for example, through additional proposals and opportunities for comment) before proceeding with any framework.
Free translation: Yeah, great, you people still have email accounts and each others’ phone numbers. We’re just going to go wait patiently over there for a couple of years and see then if you’re paying attention. Which you probably will be.
Gotta love government bureaucrats… What’s that? ‘Says who?’ Well, I don’t like to preach on religion here, so…
Moe Lane
PS: Background here.
See, Moe, I’m not sure you’re right on this one. I mean, they said they’re backing off, but I simply don’t trust them not to declare it so, and let Obama veto the bills that force their hand. Until they actually don’t try this, say, until the next President is around, then maybe I’ll believe it.
And within the ATF are a bunch of people who are seething at the ignoramuses that decided to draw further attention upon all of them.
“We got it good here so please, please, please just SHUT-UP! I got a mortgage, Melissa’s braces are there for another two years, and Jason is checking out colleges, and…did I say shut-up already?”
That’s the problem with a large bureaucracy. You got the missionaries and you got those who just want a quiet life with a steady paycheck. After the past six years I’m going to bet there is a lot of anger under the surface directed at the former from the latter.
We should be shooting them in the back as they run and track the rest down to their lairs, drag them out and set them on fire as a warning to others. And that’s only if we’re feeling kind. You don’t want to know what my nasty response is.
Are you talking about the “missionaries” or the rest of the ATF? Because I think that distinction is somewhat important.
I work in a bureaucracy, you see, and there are plenty of people there who are not the “missionary” type at all.
I am referring to the types of people that are so desperate to take away rights in this country that telling them “no” isn’t working.
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I’m a government contractor myself. Believe me, we have a hate for people like that on account of most of us being gun owners.