The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives is looking for evidence of a rule that the government has exercised its Munitions List regulatory authority to cut off the importation of ammunition manufacturing equipment from China, Gun Rights Examiner was told today by a representative of ATF's Office of Public and Governmental Affairs.
Various runaround bullshit follows, with "We don't know" as the answer.
It should be noted that his inability to locate a ruling does not prove or disprove its existence. There may not be such a rule or there may be and it has just not been well-communicated throughout the Bureau or to the public. If it does exist, it may not even be new -- this just may be the first time anyone has called it to wider attention. That such a determination is not (yet?) listed with other Rulings proves nothing either, as that list being incomplete is deemed by some critics to be what those who make arbitrary decisions prefer. And it may be a ruling communicated via a private letter, not generally distributed beyond its intended recipient and potentially very difficult to track down (and possibly even requiring a Freedom of Information Act request to do so).
It wouldn't surprise me; it would fit very well with ATF and this administrations attempts to screw with gun owners in every possible way.
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Ammunition manufacturing equipment from China.
Like, perhaps, dies and a press made by Lyman or RCBS? To the willfully ignorant ammunition manufacturing equipment sounds like something Lake City or Remington would have, but the words cover even cottage-industry manufacture.
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