[mvpel]

Such an amendment is no longer necessary since Kristine A. Iverson, the Labor Department’s Assistant Secretary for Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs, sent Rep. Rehberg a letter, dated July 16, stating that it “was never the intention of OSHA to block the sale, transportation, or storage of small arms ammunition, and OSHA is taking prompt action to revise” this proposed rule to clarify the purpose of the regulation.

... and yet ...

The OSHA proposal would have defined “explosives” to include “black powder, … small arms ammunition, small arms ammunition primers, [and] smokeless propellant,” and treated these items the same as the most volatile high explosives.

So why is Iverson lying? Or is she just stupid?

[Mr. Lucky]

The two aren’t mutually exclusive.

[Ancesthntr]

Either she’s lying, or stupid (in which case she was told by her lying bosses to feed everyone a line that everyone but her knew to be a BIG, STEAMING LIE).