NRA ALERT: OSHA's Proposed New Regulation RE: Ammo and Reloading

[dglockster]

NRA ALERT: PROPOSED "SAFETY" REGULATIONS WOULD DRY UP AMMUNITION SALES
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has proposed new rules that will have a dramatic effect on the storage and transportation of ammunition and handloading components. The proposed rule indiscriminately treats ammunition, powder, and primers as "explosives."

The public comment period ends July 12. To file your own comment, or to learn more about the OSHA proposal, go to http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main. Click on the first box in the "Search Documents" section, scroll down and choose "Occupational Safety and Health Administration" then hit the submit button at the bottom of the page. When the page pops up, the title you want is the second one on the list. It is titled "Explosives." The last two columns on the right will permit you to read the document and to submit comments electronically, or by fax or mail.

 

[Car Knocker]

Under discussion here: http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=285452

 

[obxned]

I don't know when these proposed rules were made public, but I am surprised that the comment period is nearly over before the NRA issues an alert. Is the NRA doing anything else, or is this another of the new NRA ‘behind closed doors’ deals?

 

[alsaqr]

"I don't know when these proposed rules were made public, but I am surprised that the comment period is nearly over before the NRA issues an alert. Is the NRA doing anything else, or is this another of the new NRA ‘behind closed doors’ deals?"

The proposed rules were made public on 12 April, 07. i'm a 50 year member of the NRA and have always had a lot of trust in them: Now,i'm not so sure. Called the NRA representative at the ILA the other day. It was readily apparent that he had not read the proposed OSHA reg.

Read my comments on the other thread.

 

[Art Eatman]

I forget where, but I read that SAAMI had asked for a simple clarification of an existing rule, and the next thing anybody knew, here came this garbage from OSHA.

This has hit national news as well as the Internet, and the NRA and SAAMI are busily involved in fighting it.

Unless you make a career of watching out for this stuff, it easily sneaks by. I noticed that at the website for comments, there were over 500 rules up for adoption. You darned near need to make that web page your home page, just in self defense from the government. But that would mean a heckuva lot of reading...

Art

 

[SIOP]

NRA probably doesn't like this because it wasn't their idea and they didn't have a chance to trade off any of the few rights we have left for it.

 

[JohnBT]

Yeah, sure. That was a real informative post.

John