Proposed “Safety” Regulations Would Dry Up Ammunition Sales

NRA-ILA ^ | July 03, 2007 | NRA-ILA

[skimbell]

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has proposed new rules that would have a dramatic effect on the storage and transportation of ammunition and handloading components such as primers or black and smokeless powder. The proposed rule indiscriminately treats ammunition, powder and primers as “explosives.” Among many other provisions, the proposed rule would: Prohibit possession of firearms in commercial “facilities containing explosives”—an obvious problem for your local gun store. Prohibit delivery drivers from leaving explosives unattended

[LukeL]

It is nearly impossible for a fired bullet to ignite any explosive period. The only way it can happen out side of phosphorus, tracer, and other rare rounds is to have the muzzle flash be insanely close to the fule source.

Of course all gun shop owners will do is keep all firearms or ammo in a separate locked room.

[poobear]

This would also kill the fireworks industry. The Zambelli family might object to this. They store and ship tons of “black powder” explosives.

[Calpernia]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1563271/posts?page=108#108
20. Occupational Safety and Health

Covers Firearms!

Healthy People 2010 Objectives
Injury Prevention

The following objectives are a distillation of the injury prevention objectives from the Official HP2010 Site. This list includes the objectives contained in Chapter 15: Injury and Violence Prevention, the “official” list of Related Injury Objectives from Other Focus Areas, and additional objectives we believe are important to the field. Click on the objective number to view the full text of that objective.

Developmental objectives are those for which baseline or tracking data is judged to be insufficient. Developmental objectives may be deleted if a satisfactory data source isn’t identified by 2004.

Objectives listed at the link.

[Calpernia]

See link at post 23 for objectives.

[Calpernia]

Now that explains are new crack down on fireworks this season. :(

[zeugma]

I commented in another thread earlier today that we need to pull a page from the lib's book and have our conservative representatives continually propose legislation aimed at reinforcing gun rights. Every time they knock a proposed bill down our reps need to submit another one. That's how they're doing it to us.

I was at a 'town meeting' with my congresscritter Sam Johnson, who is generally a fairly conservative guy. During the Q&A part of the meeting, I asked him if he could tell me what the bill number was for any bill he'd proposed or sponsored that would eliminate the 1934, 1968, and/or 1986 victim disarmament acts.

He started sputtering about such a thing not being possible to get passed. I told him I didn't care, and that we should have the gun grabbers wasting their time trying to stop good legislation like this rather than us spending all their efforts stopping their crap. 

Keep in mind that at the time we had a publican house, senate, and presidency. 

Even pols that are fairly decent on the 2nd don't really support it.

[B4Ranch]

Have you read the public comments. The first two are interesting.

[Calpernia]

I saw that link and didn’t click over yet. I’m multitasking at the moment :)

Thanks for the bump to remind me though.

[TexanToTheCore]

“Try reading the OSHA proposal instead of the bs article.”

I did and the Analysis by the NRA-ILA is correct. The section on small arms ammo and storage propellants is ridiculous.

For instance, you would only be able to display 50 lbs of propellant in a store.

These are regulations that are not due to any exposions or incidents, but are due to another set of beaurocrats trying to regulate shooting out of existence.
I would suggest posting your comments to them and copying your House Rep and Senator. It is very clear that this is designed to shoot down the gun industry.

[B4Ranch]

Did you click the link?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1860041/posts?page=47#47

The comments are Eagle Eye’s.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Sounds like it's time to kick the research into phased plasma energy weapons into high gear.

[Alas Babylon!]

Should OSHA exclude small arms ammunition, small arms primers, and smokeless propellants from the requirements of proposed paragraph (c)(3)(iii)?

Yup. That is exactly what you should do, OSHA. Glad we could help!

[El Gato]

“NRA OPPOSES RESTRICTIONS ON EXPLOSIVES!!!

At least some explosives are arms, in the Constitutional sense.

[NRA2BFree]

So, how do we stop this crap? If we can't stop it, how do gun owners get around it?

Get rid of the anti gunners!

[Coleus]

the 4th of July isn’t as fun as it used to be.