[Lazamataz]

Well, I am as pro-2nd as anyone, and I object to ANY ban on AP rounds. I’d do away with all the laws like that.

That said, the ATF is actually doing a pretty fair reading of the existing law. They’re right, AR handguns were not out there when this exemption was issued.

So I give them a minor nod for not making new law up out of whole cloth.

[caver]

“So I give them a minor nod for not making new law up out of whole cloth.”

But, why are they doing this now?

[Neidermeyer]

They’re right, AR handguns were not out there when this exemption was issued.

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This is a Savage in .308 ,, TC made .223 bolt handguns like this in 1986...

[RC one]

I wonder how many LEOs have been killed with AR pistols utilizing ss109 projectiles since 1986? I’m guessing-not a single one. By contrast, I wonder how many cops have been killed by young black men with regular old handguns firing cheap hardball style ammunition. This is just a parting shot at gun owners.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

ATF makes new law out of whole, or not whole cloth whenever it suits their non-2nd Amendment purposes.
Give your ‘minor nod’ to the Islamist in the White Mosque.

[OKSooner]

"That said, the ATF is actually doing a pretty fair reading of the existing law. They’re right, AR handguns were not out there when this exemption was issued."

Yes, you're exactly right. It's almost as if these stupid @$$h01e gun companies making them were just really giving them a pretext for it - which of course, begs the question about the Contender, etc. handguns which can be chambered for about any damn cartridge there is...

Those "AR handguns" are about as useful as tits on a boar hog anyway, so I hope they at least made a few bucks on them for the trouble they've enabled.