Obama Administration Abandons Plan To Ban Armor-Piercing Ammunition

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13. It's an ammo type used for legitimate purposes.

Not a single police officer has ever been killed with it. Not one.

So attempting to ban it has three obvious and detrimental effects:

1. Instantly drives sales of the proposed banned item.
2. Gives people 'ideas'.
3. Sets us up for another embarrassing political defeat on the overall issue of guns, and reminds everyone that as a political entity, we don't know what the fuck guns are, how they work, etc.

The problem with this ammo is not that it is 'armor piercing' in the context of a IIa or III police officer vest. The problem with this ammo is that it (and others that are armor piercing) can now be fired from a 'pistol' platform. Such things have been around for a while, but only recently have they gone into mass production outside many-thousands-of-dollars precision firearms from Thompson, who make things like Olympic Target Rifles.

Now we've got Oly arms, and a couple other manufacturers mass producing AR and other rifle-caliber 'pistols'. So, if you want to fix this problem; ban that. It's a classification problem. Like, truck manufacturers get around fuel economy and safety regs, by classifying large truck-based SUV's as 'farm equipment'. Just fix that bullshit. That's all you have to do. Simple tweak to the law, 'sorry, this is not a pistol, this is a short-barreled-rifle. Please register it as such if you can, have fun with your AOW fees, etc'.

It is not hard to fix this potential problem.