BATFags temporarily pull M855 'green tip' ammo ban

[midnight rambler]

For now. Emphasis on 'temporarily'. They're 're-assessing'.

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2015/03/10/breaking-atf-pulls-ban-on-ar15-green-tip-ammunition-n1968508

[Cebu_4_2]

A little too much backlash for now...

[Ares]

LOL It was going to be out of the ATF's control as Congress was moving to reclassify the M855/SS109 round out of their jurisdiction. When you get a good portion of congress and 52 Senators saying you've overstepped your authority and were starting to draft legislation to remove even your jurisdiction over it, you know you fucked up.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/blast-40-of-house-oppose-obamas-ar-15-bullet-ban/article/2560867

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[Shami-Amourae]

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[Ares]

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[Glass]

a couple of threads on this so posted here.

We got a couple of stories on it and I got a question about one of them for the peeps here:


This time America's most powerful lobby group managed to block a move to ban the free sale of armour-piercing bullets for handguns.
The so-called green tip ammunition – which is designed to pierce helmets and body-armour – has long been legal in America for use in AR–15 rifles. These are the military-style semi-automatic rifles that have become the most popular hunting and self-defence weapons in the nation after their high-profile use in the massacres in a Sandy Hook primary school and a Colorado cinema.


The so-called M855 round, also known as the "cop killer", is now the second most popular ammunition for use in America's most popular rifle.


One popular recent YouTube video shows a man firing a green tip round through nearly six centimetres of steel and over a metre deep into a wooden log in his back yard.

link (http://www.theage.com.au/world/another-textbook-gun-law-victory-for-national-rifle-association-20150316-1lzz4v.html)

3 and a bit inches of steel? is that correct or are they mixing up types of rounds?

[Ares]

The so-called M855 round, also known as the "cop killer", is now the second most popular ammunition for use in America's most popular rifle.

Bullshit propaganda.... The M855 round has never even been implicated in a SINGLE cop shooting death.


One popular recent YouTube video shows a man firing a green tip round through nearly six centimetres of steel and over a metre deep into a wooden log in his back yard.

Six centimeters is hardly armor piecing and plate armor starts at an inch. M855 will not even penetrate ceramic plates. Any rifle round will penetrate soft body armor police commonly use.

[Glass]

yeah I know it's a beat up. Most australians are petrified of guns so they won't know any different.

I watching guys on YT penetrate about 1/4" steel plate but no way through even 1" of plate steel let alone 3" of plate steel. That would be nearly the skin of a tank.

[Dogman]

yeah I know it's a beat up. Most australians are petrified of guns so they won't know any different.

I watching guys on YT penetrate about 1/4" steel plate but no way through even 1" of plate steel let alone 3" of plate steel. That would be nearly the skin of a tank.

Have blown holes in 3/8 plate at 100 yards, can see .223 ap doing 1/4 easy and maybe a tad more, but not one inch or above ether glass, agreed.

[Glass]

jut watching some guys punching some .223, .308, 9mm into some rolled steel plate and some AR500 plate and some helmets. No green tip but interesting anyway.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYiNMIVxnFM

The AR500 plate looks interesting.

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