Obama/Clinton State Department To Stick Its Nose Into Sales of Imported Ammunition?

This comes from the Shooting Wire in an email to me via Marlin Arms. This is a problem if even parts of it are true. Vigilence is what got the shooting sports community through the Clinton years. The Obama years will be no difference.


Read this and PASS IT ON!

State Department Floating Ammo Import Ban

It looks like those who said the Obama Administration would strike while the iron is hot may have been correct, and the Administration may be doing it in a way that does not require them to even get a vote in Congress. In this morning's edition of the Shooting Wire, Jim Shepherd writes that Canadian officials have it on "good authority" our State Department may be on the verge of cutting off all imports of certain calibers of ammunition.

Ammos listed for this rumored ban include the .50BMG, 7.62x39mm Soviet, 7.62x51mm NATO, .308 Winchester, 5.56 NATO and .223 Remington. Additionally, we're hearing that an expansion of this proposed ban might be broadened to include the 6.8mm SPC, 9mm Parabellum, .40 S&W, and .45 ACP- among others. In other words, State Department officials may be floating a trial balloon to see if there are howls of protest, or whimpers of compliance. Canadian elected officials who have directed this information to me say the move seems to be motivated by "emboldened" anti-gun officials who think they have a kindred spirit in President Obama.

Shepherd continues that there may also be a plan to ban exports on certain firearms to Canada from the US, resulting in the State Department hammering gun manufacturers, distributors and exporters in the United States while simultaneously making firearms -and ammunition - ownership and acquisition more difficult for Canadians.Many in the pro-rights community have said since the election that Obama could circumvent Congress by using regulations in his various cabinet departments to attack gun owners. It appears that it may have already begun.

Regards,

Tom Smith
Mfg Engineer - Lever Rifles
Marlin Firearms Co.
100 Kenna Drive
P.O.Box 248
North Haven CT 06473-0905
Tel 1-203-985-3216

tsmith@marlinfirearms.com

One hell of an alert. Folks, you need have no doubt that the powers that be are testing the waters to see how the American public will react . . .

h/t to Jude Cuddy