White House says ammo ban will save cops’ lives
By Dave Boyer – The Washington Times – Monday, March 2, 2015
The White House said Monday that President Obama believes a ban on bullets commonly used with the AR-15 rifle will save police officers’ lives.
“We are looking at additional ways to protect our brave men and women in law enforcement, and believe that this process is valuable for that reason alone,” said White House press secretary Josh Earnest.
Mr. Earnest called it a “common-sense step.”
“The president has long believed that there are some common-sense steps that we can take … to ensure that we’re protecting the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Americans while also taking some common-sense steps to prevent people who shouldn’t have guns from getting them,” he said.
Mr. Earnest added, “This seems to be an area where everyone should agree that if there are armor-piercing bullets available that can fit into easily concealed weapons, that it puts our law enforcement at considerably more risk.”
A top official with the firearms industry’s trade association called the White House’s argument “bogus.”
“All rifle ammo made with lead ammo is able to penetrate a soft body ‘vest’ because of the high velocity of rifle rounds,” said Lawrence Keane, senior vice president and general counsel of the National Shooting Sports Foundation. “So banning M855 does not advance law officer safety. No police officer has ever been shot and killed with a so-called ‘armor piercing’ bullet fired from a handgun that penetrated a vest.”
It is hard to even take the White House spokesman seriously in the attached video. Even members of the press corp seem unimpressed by the latest spin from the White House on the ammo ban proposal.
As Lawrence Keane notes in the article, not a single police officer has ever been shot and killed with an armor piercing handgun round. The idea that this is somehow an epidemic that needs to be addressed is just a sham.
We are all for protecting the lives of Americas law enforcement agents, but again, as Keane points out ALL lead based rifle ammo has the potential to penetrate armor. So either the White House is A) completely ignorant on this matter and should not be making these kinds of decisions, B) Knows the truth and is lying anyhow to, or C) Knows exactly what they are doing.
The most dangerous of these is option C, because that means if they know normal lead based rifle rounds can penetrate armor, and they are using armor penetration as the basis to ban ammo – well you can connect the dots and see what is coming.
Gun proponents have been arguing all along that this is a back-door gun control method in the making. Perhaps there is a bigger picture here than most of us initially saw.
