Not sure how this issue makes it up the ladder of priorities in an agency. Well, really I do understand - political pressure from some politician who has big donors who don't like guns, or in this case, don't like ammo.
And now it is nice to see that pressure from the other side, a side I am aligned with, has forced ATF to reconsider a decision that they had a hard time explaining to most everyone. They struggled to explain the rationale for the decision and the process by which the decision was arrived at. They may still arrive at the came conclusion, but they are re-opening the comment period and state they have to reconsider issues not previously given consideration.
http://www.atf.gov/press/releases/2...-piercing-ammunition-exemption-framework.html
A group that has a ton of influence on these issues is the National Shooting Sports Foundation. Many do not know of NSSF and the influence they have. I am thankful NSSF is here when such craziness somehow enters the DC drinking water.
http://www.nssf.org/
Not that we need any further evidence that neither side can claim sole ownership of the political fringe. Too bad the folks putting this kind of pressure on the agency live in Congressional districts with such huge partisan support that any efforts to hammer them politically is cause for them to laugh.
Such is what we get when the two political parties get together on redistricting; very few districts have a real race based on ideas and leadership. Rather, boundaries drawn so dramatically favorable to one party or the other in such a way that politicians can just thumb their noses at any opposition, knowing their districts have been drawn so heavily to their partisan favor. End result, the real elections become the primaries for the party of favor, with primaries usually being dominated by the activist fringe on either side.
Will be interesting to watch how the agency responds to this pressure.
And now it is nice to see that pressure from the other side, a side I am aligned with, has forced ATF to reconsider a decision that they had a hard time explaining to most everyone. They struggled to explain the rationale for the decision and the process by which the decision was arrived at. They may still arrive at the came conclusion, but they are re-opening the comment period and state they have to reconsider issues not previously given consideration.
http://www.atf.gov/press/releases/2...-piercing-ammunition-exemption-framework.html
A group that has a ton of influence on these issues is the National Shooting Sports Foundation. Many do not know of NSSF and the influence they have. I am thankful NSSF is here when such craziness somehow enters the DC drinking water.
http://www.nssf.org/
Not that we need any further evidence that neither side can claim sole ownership of the political fringe. Too bad the folks putting this kind of pressure on the agency live in Congressional districts with such huge partisan support that any efforts to hammer them politically is cause for them to laugh.
Such is what we get when the two political parties get together on redistricting; very few districts have a real race based on ideas and leadership. Rather, boundaries drawn so dramatically favorable to one party or the other in such a way that politicians can just thumb their noses at any opposition, knowing their districts have been drawn so heavily to their partisan favor. End result, the real elections become the primaries for the party of favor, with primaries usually being dominated by the activist fringe on either side.
Will be interesting to watch how the agency responds to this pressure.
