Cons are against it
Any questions?
The fact is Dukey, Obama appointed lobbyists from the big cable corps to the FCC like he promised not to, and now they’re going stick it to us.
Actually they’re NOT. They’re keeping an open internet with NO fast lanes for well heeled subscribers. It’s regulated like a utility. GHood for the FCC for once. Comcast and Time Warner and AT&T and Verizon actually lost one.
Alright, just looked it up, it looks like the opposite of what Obama’s FCC lobbyists he appointed were originally proposing.
You be wrong about this one - Alien
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How can a federal agency implement rule changes without public noticing it in the Federal Register, make the plan available for public scrutiny, and allow a comment period for the public and stakeholders?
Oh good, I wondered if anyone would come in an regurgitate The Faux Snooze talking points.
The only fucking thing you gotta know is allen west is against it - move on citizen
Well hold on there Big Duke, Allen Talks is buddies with god, he might know something.
Here’s the old article I was going off of… I bet the devil is in the details as always. 
Fox News talking point? I thought of this on my own. We get notices here at work all the time, particularly with EPA.
Hey, the internet isn’t broken so we must fix it!
I guess my concern is that I have read that that if “they” want to regulate something or other, that means they want to take it away/
In my experience it usually means they want to level the playing field in favor of their big corporate friends at the expense of the little peoples. And they usually claim to be protectin the kids or something while they’re doing so, this time they’re “savin the internet.” Prepare to pay more for worse service.
The goobermint typically ignores public comments anyways.
Your buddies just banned bullets for the AR-15.
Any questions?
Link?
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 5.56mm 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.
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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, 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-15s, some of which can be turned into pistol-style guns. “This will have a detrimental effect on hunting nationwide,” said the group.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at pbedard@washingtonexaminer.com.
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The only credible mention I can find on that is a proposal to restrict access to armor piercing bullets.