Banning 5.56 Ammo by 20 States

Citizen Watch Report ^

[davikkm]

NY Attorney General hates the thought of everyday Americans owning firearms. She works tirelessly to attack gun owners at every turn, including trying to run the NRA out of business. As if her current civil corruption trial of Wayne LaPierre isn’t enough, on Wednesday she launched a new front in her war for civilian disarmament: surplus Lake City 5.56 ammo.

[ansel12]

Prices would surely drop in the other 37 states if 20 states banned the sales.

[Jane Long]

Ping.

[ought-six]

A 5.56 is pretty much just a heavier .22 with more zip.

[G Larry]

Currently 60 cents/rd for 1000rd buy

[FlingWingFlyer]

I’ll just buy that stuff from Jose and Chuy on their trips back home to Mehico.

[Texas Fossil]

Yes, 30-06 is a serious weapon. Most of my stuff is 30 caliber and up.

5.56mmx45mm (aka .223) is not so much. But recently I built my first AR in 5.56mmx45mm NATO.

Favorite load is with a 80 gr Speer SemiSpitzer SP bullet, NATO primers, and close to NATO powder load. It is a hunting rifle. But will shoot the light stuff too.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I hate AGs with “Wide Load” signs hangin off their ass.

[Texaspeptoman]

Be careful around boats and lakes

[chickenlips]

As much as they would like to, 5.56 is not being banned in 20 states. They are asking that one manufacturer that produces it for the military be prohibited from selling their surplus ammo to the public. It would be 30% of the AR ammo supply taken off the market.

[ansel12]

Yep, “military-grade ammunition” is one of their new phrases.

[Levy78]

Trust me, 5.56 will split a wig.

[DesertRhino]

Olin has the operation contract. They supply military contracts and then are free to produce all they can over that for sale.
if they agree to the new conditions, any company operating that plant should face 100% consumer boycotts on everything else they build.

Leave the government without an operator or make them do it themselves.

[gundog]

It would be 30% of the AR ammo supply taken off the market.

Dumped into the other States. Other manufacturers would likely fill any voids in demand in the 20 States.

[Levy78]

Best load I ever shot in 5.56 is Mk-262. The mod 0/1 is a Black Hills OTM.

[CodeToad]

I don’t know, but perhaps a new career path is presented. Smuggling was always a prohibition favorite.

[Gaffer]

After Obama, Walmart was selling ammo cans of LC 5.56 SS109s and many people took large advantage of that. The SS109s are the steel rod core penetrator slugs.

[Paal Gulli]

They don't know enough about guns (ignorance is an article of faith for the hoplophobes) to ban anything and make it stick.

Italy banned everything to do with military weaponry. You couldn't even sell a magazine-fed rifle there if it could accept the magazine from an M-16/AR-15. Among other things, this meant the .45 ACP was banned.

So the wiseacres at Hirtenberger-Patronen shortened the .45's casing by a single millimeter (1mm) and seated the bullet 1mm further out so it could use standard Colt magazines. Headspacing still would have been a problem so Colt ran a batch of 1911 barrels with .45 HP chambers. So all you needed to do was swap the barrel on Ol' Slabsides and you'd have a .45 Hirternberger conversion with near as makes no difference identical ballistics to the .45 ACP.

Italy's law also banned the 9mm Luger (9x19) cartridge. So two Eye-Tie gun guys lengthened the case of the 9mm by two millimeters and, Bada-Bing, 9x21 GP. It probably would have died on the vine as the .45 HP had except the Israelis found military use for it and re-christened it the 9mm IMI. And now the 9mm IMI has taken hold in the open class of USPSA/IPSC competition.

We saw how many ingenious work-arounds people created for Klinton's Ass-Wipe Weapons ban, especially the evil geniuses at Franklin Armory (who makes ARs with barrels that are rifled but have no twist, and AR-15s that aren't semi-automatic, among others). This would be no different. There are hundreds of minor modifications could be made to the .223 Remington or 5.56 NATO cartridge that would dodge any law those morons could come up with.

A Kommiefornia-legal AR-15:

[Texas Fossil]

Yes. My thoughts, there are better weapons.

[RetiredArmy]

To the left, all ammo is “military grade” because all bullets regardless of caliber, causes holes in the bad guy’s @$$e$!!