{"id":22590,"date":"2015-03-12T19:20:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T23:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=22590"},"modified":"2015-03-12T19:20:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T23:20:53","slug":"atf-halts-ammo-ban-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/22590\/atf-halts-ammo-ban-for-now\/","title":{"rendered":"ATF Halts Ammo Ban, For Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After announcing plans to confiscate certain kinds of ammunition through a <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2015\/03\/09\/the-obama-administrations-m855-ammo-ban-is-blatantly-lawless\/ \" target=\"_blank\">new and textually dubious regulation<\/a>, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is reconsidering. Indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you for your interest in ATF\u2019s proposed framework for determining whether certain projectiles are \u2018primarily intended for sporting purposes\u2019 within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. 921(a)(17)(C). The informal comment period will close on Monday, March 15, 2015. ATF has already received more than 80,000 comments, which will be made publicly available as soon as possible,\u201d reads a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atf.gov\/press\/releases\/2015-03-021015-advisory-notice-those-commenting-armor-piercing-ammunition-exemption-framework.html \" target=\"_blank\">statement from the bureau\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough ATF endeavored to create a proposal that reflected a good faith interpretation of the law and balanced the interests of law enforcement, industry, and sportsmen,\u201d the statement continues, \u201cthe vast majority of the comments received to date are critical of the framework, and include issues that deserve further study. Accordingly, ATF will not at this time seek to issue a final framework. After the close of the comment period, ATF will process the comments received, further evaluate the issues raised therein, and provide additional open and transparent process (for example, through additional proposals and opportunities for comment) before proceeding with any framework.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though I\u2019m glad to see a federal agency rethinking a bad policy change for the stated reason that the \u201cvast majority\u201d of 80,000 comments oppose the move, I suspect the real reason for the sudden about-face is because ammunition confiscation through regulation is an issue that will make it virtually impossible for Democrats to get elected in swing districts.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the reason, it\u2019s great to see some level of responsiveness from a federal bureaucracy that ostensibly exists to serve the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After announcing plans to confiscate certain kinds of ammunition through a new and textually dubious regulation, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is reconsidering. Indefinitely. \u201cThank you for your interest in ATF\u2019s proposed framework for determining whether certain projectiles are \u2018primarily intended for sporting purposes\u2019 within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. 921(a)(17)(C). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2613,2320,2645,300],"class_list":["post-22590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-atf","tag-gun-control","tag-guns","tag-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22590"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22596,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22590\/revisions\/22596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}