The ATF Did Something Smart... For Once. Oh Wait, Hold That Thought.

According to BBC, the ATF's attempted ban on M855 ball ammunition for 5.56x45mm rifles had been declined. Once the ATF had proposed this ban, "in the name of police safety," there was great opposition to the bill, as all firearm owners instantly recognized what the bill was truly for: backdoor gun control. Over 50 United States senators had written to the ATF in protest to the ridiculous ban that stated the M855 round was "armor piercing." The argument is that any rifle round, whether it has a steel core, such as the M855, or not, it will punch right through a police officer's Level IIA body armor. A man named Tim, the host of Military Arms Channel on YouTube, created a video to prove this. In the video, he had shot a Level IIIA ballistic plate (that is one level of protection above Level IIA) with a standard 5.56. He's even passed through Level IIIA with handgun ammunition. If you are interested in this topic or in firearms in general, I highly recommend his videos. Tim was one of the average citizens who had written to the ATF in an attempt to repeal the ban. All those who disproved of the unjust ban had stated that the whole point was not to protect police, but instead to limit the law-abiding citizens' ability to use firearms. If someone does not have ammunition for their firearm, what is the point of having it? Due to the fact that the bill was backdoor gun control, it was quite clearly an attack on the Second Amendment, and therefore unconstitutional. Of course, the anti-gunners, the ATF in this case, claimed that when the original law that banned "armor-piercing" handgun ammunition was created in 1986, handguns that shot rifle rounds were not manufacture, but this is a lie. Anything with less than a 16-inch barrel is classified as a handgun, unless there is a stock on it, then it is a short barreled rifle (SBR), and there were handguns shooting rifle rounds as far back as 1967, possibly sooner. While all these wins for the pro-gunners may be great, the best was definitely when the ATF backed off on their attempt to ban M855. However, according to Alex Jones, who I personally do trust for reliable information, in less than a week, the ATF has already begun its second assault on M855, trying once again to ban it. This second ban is not simply going after the M855 ammunition, but all 5.56x45mm rounds. There is no possible way that this ban could pass if the first one did not, but anti-gunners will try anything they can to get rid of the law-abiding citizens' ability to protect themselves.