WOW: Rep. Bishop Introduces Bill To Gut “Sporting Purposes,” Prohibit Ammo Bans

[Outlander Systems]

Someone pinch me...

The National Rifle Association today announced support for H.R. 2710, federal legislation aimed at limiting the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) from using executive overreach to undermine the Second Amendment. H.R. 2710 was introduced by United States Representative Rob Bishop (UT-1).

“This important legislation would prevent arbitrary ammunition bans like the one attempted earlier this year by the Obama Administration,” said Chris W. Cox, executive director of the NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action. “With the support of America’s law-abiding gun owners, the NRA was able to beat back Obama’s attempt to ban ammunition used by millions of law-abiding Americans every day for target shooting, hunting, and self-defense. This legislation would fix the law to protect us from similar government overreach in the future.”

http://bearingarms.com/rep-bishop-in...bit-ammo-bans/

http://www.guns.com/2015/06/11/gop-l...-rule-changes/

This is pretty awesome legislation. And normally, I am for fewer laws than I am more.

http://cdn.bearingarms.com/uploads/2015/06/2710.pdf

(a) AMENDMENTS TO THE NATIONAL FIREARMS
6 ACT.—Section 5845(f) of the National Firearms Act is
7 amended—
8 (1) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘recognized as
9 particularly suitable for sporting purposes’’ and in-
10 serting ‘‘recognized as suitable for lawful purposes’’;
11 and
12 (2) by striking ‘‘use solely for sporting pur-
13 poses’’ and inserting ‘‘use for sporting purposes’’.
14 (b) AMENDMENTS TO TITLE 18, UNITED STATES
15 CODE.—Section 921(a)(4) of title 18, United States Code,
16 is amended—
17 (1) in subparagraph (B) of the 1st sentence, by
18 striking ‘‘particularly suitable for sporting’’ and in-
19 serting ‘‘suitable for lawful’’; and

[Greg Bell]

We need to get behind this!

[T2C]

This is a good step in the right direction and Mr. Bishop needs all of our support.

[nimdabew]

I am all for it, but does anyone have reason this has a snowballs chance in hell of making it?

[THCDDM4]

This is great!

Already emailed all my reps and sent the call out to everyone I know.

Start calling emailing and don't let up. A few minutes a day from everyone of us and everyone we know who would get behind this might just make a difference.

[Jellybean]

I am all for it, but does anyone have reason this has a snowballs chance in hell of making it?

Who cares!
How much shit do the anti's consistently fling at the wall until some sticks?
Might as well fling something back and let them play cleanup for a change... Even if it doesn't pass it will be fun to watch them running around in a hand-wringing panic over it.

[CatSnipah]

Unreal.

Go go go!

Glad to see someone listening to a vast majority of the population for a change, and protecting the people instead of trying to be a nanny.

[cbx]

Nice....."It's gonna be a good day today Tater.", In my best Ron White voice.

[Renegade]

I am all for it, but does anyone have reason this has a snowballs chance in hell of making it?

Brady Law failed first 5 times it was introduced. Gun grabbers did not quit even though they knew Reaga/nBush would not sign it. Make legislators go on record for this, those that do not sign, take action next election.

[SteyrAUG]

The language still sucks.

"‘recognized as suitable for lawful purposes’’ is still arbitrary enough for ATF to continue making "determinations." They will simply decide Firearm A is "not recognized as suitable for lawful purposes."

It's a baby step, but the sporter clause needs to be completely stripped. It didn't exist prior to 1968 and we don't need it now.