The Rude Pundit - Gun Nuts Losing Their Goddamned Minds Over Proposed Bullet Ban

[sir pball]

69. I'm pretty sure you're actually quite right..

NATO and by extension the US armed forces have recently changed to a newer type of bullet, which leaves mindbogglingly huge stocks of M855 on their hands with no real use for it - what better way to get rid of it than make rumbles of a "ban", ???, profit!

I say this because the ATF action is preliminary, no bans issued yet, and the bullets in question literally do not meet the definition in the law the ATF is citing...they have a very large lead slug behind the steel tip, while the law explicitly says a bullet must first and foremost be made entirely of non-lead material to even be considered " armor piercing." If I were prone to flights of fancy, I'd almost say somebody at ATK (owners of most of the US military ammo manufacturers) had the ear of somebody at the ATF..