{"id":34237,"date":"2015-03-10T21:02:58","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T02:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=34237"},"modified":"2015-03-10T23:33:25","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T04:33:25","slug":"atf-shelves-controversial-bullet-ban-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/atf-shelves-controversial-bullet-ban-proposal\/34237\/","title":{"rendered":"ATF shelves controversial bullet ban proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-33870\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/drradio407-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"drradio407\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/drradio407-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/drradio407.jpg 478w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is shelving a proposal to ban a popular but highly lethal type of bullet, amid opposition from gun-rights advocates and hundreds of \u00a0members of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>The agency said in a statement on Tuesday it would not seek to issue the final guidelines &#8220;at this time.&#8221; The proposal pertained to M855 &#8220;green tip&#8221; ammunition, used in the AR-15 rifle, which regulators looked at banning because it can pierce police body armor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2015\/03\/10\/atf-shelves-controversial-bullet-ban-proposal\/\" target=\"_blank\">More on FoxNews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/nra-forces-obama-to-wave-white-flag-on-proposed-ammo-ban-for-now\/34241\/\" target=\"_blank\">or read statement from NRA-ILA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The agency said in a statement on Tuesday it would not seek to issue the final guidelines &#8220;at this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":33870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,58],"tags":[3548,706,3547],"class_list":["post-34237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news-from-the-industry","tag-ammo-ban","tag-atf","tag-m855"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}