Lawmakers won't be silenced over Obama administration's proposed ammo ban

Lawmakers are firing back at a proposal by the Obama administration to ban one of the most common bullets used with the popular AR-15 rifle, with more than 100 members of Congress signing a letter opposing the move on ammo.

Word of the  proposal by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to ban .223 M855 “green tip” ammunition came out on Thursday and prompted an immediate backlash from sportsmen. House members from both parties and some law enforcement officials were not far behind.

“[The ban] will interfere with Second Amendment rights by disrupting the market for ammunition that law abiding Americans use for sporting and other legitimate purposes,” reads the letter signed by lawmakers and addressed to ATF director Todd Jones.

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Obama to ban bullets by executive action, threatens top-selling AR-15 rifle

It’s starting. 

As promised, President Obama is using executive actions to impose gun control on the nation, targeting the top-selling rifle in the country, the AR-15 style semi-automatic, with a ban on one of the most-used AR bullets by sportsmen and target shooters. 

 The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives this month revealed that it is proposing to put the ban on 5.56 mm ammo on a fast track, immediately driving up the price of the bullets and prompting retailers, including the huge outdoors company Cabela’s, to urge sportsmen to urge Congress to stop the president.

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Wednesday night, Rep. Bob Goodlatte, the Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, stepped in with a critical letter to the bureau demanding it explain the surprise and abrupt bullet ban. The letter is shown below.

The National Rifle Association, which is working with Goodlatte to gather co-signers, told Secrets that 30 House members have already co-signed the letter and Goodlatte and the NRA are hoping to get a total of 100 fast.

"The Obama administration was unable to ban America's most popular sporting rifle through the legislative process, so now it's trying to ban commonly owned and used ammunition through regulation," said Chris W. Cox, executive director of the NRA-ILA, the group's policy and lobby shop. "The NRA and our tens of millions of supporters across the country will fight to stop President Obama's latest attack on our Second Amendment freedoms."

At issue is so-called “armor-piercing” ammunition, an exemption for those bullets mostly used for sport by AR-15 owners, and the recent popularity of pistol-style ARs that use the ammo.

The inexpensive 5.56 M885 ammo, commonly called green tips, have been exempt for years, as have higher-caliber ammunition that also easily pierces the type of soft armor worn by police, because it’s mostly used by target shooters, not criminals. The agency proposes to reclassify it as armor-piercing and not exempt.

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But now BATFE says that since the bullets can be used in semi-automatic handguns they pose a threat to police and must be banned from production, sale and use. But, as Goodlatte noted, the agency offered no proof. Federal agencies will still be allowed to buy the ammo.

“This round is amongst the most commonly used in the most popular rifle design in America, the AR-15. Millions upon millions of M855 rounds have been sold and used in the U.S., yet ATF has not even alleged — much less offered evidence — that even one such round has ever been fired from a handgun at a police officer,” said Goodlatte’s letter.

Even some police don’t buy the administration’s claim. “Criminals aren't going to go out and buy a $1,000 AR pistol,” Brent Ball, owner of 417 Guns in Springfield, Mo., and a 17-year veteran police officer told the Springfield News-Leader. “As a police officer I'm not worried about AR pistols because you can see them. It's the small gun in a guy's hand you can't see that kills you.”

Many see the bullet ban as an assault on the AR-15 and Obama’s back-door bid to end production and sale.

“We are concerned,” said Justin Anderson with Hyatt Gun Shop in Charlotte, N.C., one of the nation’s top sellers of AR-15 style rifles. “Frankly, we're always concerned when the government uses back-door methods to impose quasi-gun control.”

Groups like the National Shooting Sports Foundation suggest that under BATFE’s new rule, other calibers like popular deer hunting .308 bullets could be banned because they also are used in AR platforms, some of which can be turned into pistol-style guns. “This will have a detrimental effect on hunting nationwide,” said the group.

Islamic State fighters smash priceless relics in Iraqi museum

Islamic State posts video of its fighters destroying priceless antiquities dating back thousands of years. Mana Rabiee reports.

"Dying of the light" is very interesting

Ever wonder what's really going on....take a look at this clip from the movie " Dying of the light" where long time CIA operative Nicolas Cage makes some remarks that are quite interesting !

Click below to watch the clip mentioned above...



Here's the trailer for "Dying of the Light"

U.S. Senate Democrats invite Netanyahu to meeting during visit

(Reuters) - Two senior U.S. Senate Democrats invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday to a closed-door meeting with Democratic senators during his upcoming visit to Washington, warning that making U.S.-Israeli relations a partisan political issue could have "lasting repercussions."

Senators Richard Durbin and Dianne Feinstein extended the invitation "to maintain Israel's dialogue with both political parties in Congress," according to a letter to the Israeli leader seen by Reuters.

Netanyahu has faced criticism at home and abroad for his plans to address Congress on Iran's nuclear program on March 3, just two weeks before Israeli elections and at a sensitive point in international negotiations with Tehran.

The Israeli leader accepted the invitation from Republican leaders in the U.S. Congress, who broke diplomatic protocol by consulting neither Democrats in Congress nor Democratic President Barack Obama's administration.

"This unprecedented move threatens to undermine the important bipartisan approach towards Israel - which as long-standing supporters of Israel troubles us deeply," Durbin and Feinstein wrote.

"It sacrifices deep and well-established cooperation on Israel for short-term partisan points - something that should never be done with Israeli security and which we fear could have lasting repercussions," they said.

Critics have accused Netanyahu of placing his ties to Republicans above Israel's relations with the United States, its most important ally. U.S.-born Ron Dermer, Israeli's ambassador to Washington, is a former Republican political operative.

Although some Democrats have said they would not attend Netanyahu's speech to the joint meeting of the House of Representatives and Senate, the session proposed by Durbin and Feinstein would be in addition to the address. It is not intended as an alternative, a Durbin aide said.

The two senators have not indicated publicly whether they planned to be at the Israeli leader's address, their spokesmen said.

Obama has declined to meet Netanyahu during his trip to Washington, citing what he has said is U.S. protocol not to meet world leaders shortly before national elections. Israelis are due to vote on March 17.

Durbin is the No. 2 Democrat in the U.S. Senate. Feinstein, who has been in the Senate since 1992, is the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee and a senior member of the Appropriations and Judiciary committees.

The letter was sent on Monday evening. The Israeli Embassy did not have an immediate response to the invitation.

ISIS video shows indoctrination of kids as young as 5

The latest disturbing video from ISIS shows what the Islamist group touts as the next generation of jihadist killers, pint-sized terror trainees who appear to be as young as 5 participating in drills and reciting verses from the Koran.

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Just 12 years old and has better sense than some grown citizens....

Jihadists Launching Attacks On U.S. Soil From Tennessee Base!

They are in your neighborhood. They walk the streets with you. They shop, dine and eat with you. They have launched Jihad for years, bombed, murdered and defrauded many Americans inside the USA and it has gone largely unnoticed by it’s inhabitants.
Known terrorists have infiltrated our nation, bought up rural farms, gathered loyal followers and are training for Jihad against you and your family.

This is not a group that just assembles on their privately purchased property and are just living the American dream, watching ballgames and eating apple pie.
Jamaat Al Fukra, MOA, and Soldiers of Allah have moved into the neighborhood and just happen to be one of the most feared terrorist groups in existence. They are led by Islamic Terrorist Sheikh Mubarack Al Gilani from his headquarters in Hancock NY and his home in Lahore Pakistan.

Gilani has known ties to Hamas, The Muslim  Brotherhood, Al Qaeda, ISIS, Osama Bin Laden and Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman (The blind Sheikh) and many others.
Jamaat Al Faruq, Muslims Of America camps are spread all over the US and in Tennessee.
These groups have an extremely violent recent past that includes mass fire-bombings, murder, bank robberies, fraud and weapons charges.

The FBI, DHS, State Department and the local police have been watching this group for years, have arrested many and provided surveillance of property for years. In recent years they have backed off and this is very concerning. With the following statements made by various federal agencies I am very surprised they are not US enemy number one.

1n 1998 the State Department provided a Patterns of Global Terrorism report on Jamaat Al Faruq that described them as an “Islamic sect that seeks to purify Islam through violence.”
In 2007 an FBI record that was recently declassified in May 2013 said this about Al Faruq in File number 199M-HO-61310

“The MOA is now an autonomous organization which possesses an infrastructure capable of planning and mounting terrorist campaigns overseas and within the U.S.”
“The documented propensity for violence by this organization supports the belief the leadership of the MOA extols membership to pursue a policy of jihad or holy war against individuals or groups it considers enemies of Islam, which includes the U.S. Government.” Additionally, The Clarion Project, a non partisan group that investigates Islamic extremism said that in 2002, a State Department spokesperson said the following when asked why MOA stopped appearing in the Department’s annual terrorism reports. 

The State Departments reply was: -“Jamaat ul-Fuqra has never been designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. It was included in several recent annual terrorism reports under ‘other terrorist groups,’ i.e., groups that had carried out acts of terrorism but that were not formally designated by the Secretary of State. However, because of the group’s inactivity during 2000, it was not included in the most recent terrorism report covering that calendar year.” Because, they were essentially quiet in 2002, they were not included in the report.

In 2005, the Department of Homeland Security issued a report listed Jamaat ul-Fuqra (and specifically MOA) as a possible sponsor of a terrorist attack on the U.S. Remember, these people live in your neighborhood untouched by local, state and federal agencies and we are the enemy?

Another FBI document gathered by The Clarion Project by requesting FOI items verifies MOA and Jamaat Al Fuqra are a terroristic threat and guilty of conspiring to commit bombings in Canada and the US. (You may see the FBI report on the link below)
http://m.clarionproject.org/document/fbi-document-jamaat-ul-fuqra-moa-1993-activity-dallas
Another FBI document declassified   9 months ago shows Texas land purchases by MOA and Jamaat Al Fuqra were being used to set up terrorist camps in the USA.

http://m.clarionproject.org/document/fbi-document-jamaat-ul-fuqra-moa-1991-texas-land-buy
A  1992 FBI report on a Texas Terrorist camp owned by MOA and Fuqra linked with bombings in Canada from a US based camp. The FBI deemed these groups armed and dangerous.
http://m.clarionproject.org/document/fbi-document-jamaat-ul-fuqra-moa-canadian-terror-plot
Here is yet another declassified FBI report regarding bombing of a  Hindu Temple in Canada  launched from within the USA by MOA/Fuqra.
http://m.clarionproject.org/document/fbi-document-jamaat-ul-fuqra-moa-1993-canadian-terror-plot

In 1991 an FBI report of Fuqras US branch MOA presence in Texas
http://m.clarionproject.org/document/fbi-document-jamaat-ul-fuqra-moa-1991-terror-activity
This FBI document caught MOA/Fuqra operatives using aliases, fake social security numbers, fake birth certificates etc, to assist with criminal activity.

http://m.clarionproject.org/document/fbi-document-jamaat-ul-fuqra-moa-1992-criminal-activity
Jamaat Al Faruq, MOA under the tutelage of Sheikh Mubarak Al Gilani have not been the model US citizen simply seeking a rural place and a great place to raise their family. They have in fact been very busy being the terrorists we know them to be.

Remember, these folks live by you and are in your neighborhood and have committed the atrocious crimes below. These crimes were committed by the same groups that have terrorist camps all across our nation and in Tennessee.

Sadly, these guys still roam freely and are able to train for future Jihadist activity in your backyard to kill you where you live. At this point, it’s not it might happen it’s when will it happen.
Please read the activity below and you tell me if they are trying to coexist and display love peace and harmony.

I think by reading these atrocities you will look differently upon the green pastures where they train to eventually kill you and take your property.
It’s the big picture folks and to date we haven’t seen it. Perhaps this recorded activity will change your mind, maybe not. At least you have been informed.

The one thing that remains constant is Al Gilani used Al Faruq\MOA to launch Jihad against America from these homegrown terrorist camps, your neighbors. It is true be has been basically silent since 2001 avoiding DHS and State Department radar but they will start up again in the near future. They are training for something and you are not gonna like it.