Noooooooooooo.
Hey look, America's gun fetishists are sprinting to their local stores to buy armor-piercing bullets because they
really, really need armor-piercing bullets.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said this month that it planned to restrict the armor-piercing 5.56-millimeter “M855 green tip” rifle bullet because of new handguns that use the ammunition and pose a greater threat to the police. Previously, the millions of inexpensive green-tip steel and lead bullets sold each year were only for rifles typically used by target shooters and hunters.
Emphasis mine, to point out once again the arms race between our police forces and our criminals—sorry, I mean our law-abiding citizens who may someday need to murder armored deer. Another possibility might be to restrict these new handguns and allow the bullets, but there's not a chance in hell that will happen so forget it.
The proposal by the A.T.F. to reclassify the rifle ammunition started more than three years ago, before the Newtown shootings, and included meetings with members of the firearms industry, advocacy groups and law enforcement officials. After the 30-day comment period expires on March 13, the attorney general will have to make a final decision, officials said. [...]
But it has been a priority for law enforcement groups that have long pushed for restrictions on armor-piercing bullets.
Anyway, so that's going to be another huge deal because American patriots need their armor-piercing bullets to defend themselves against today's modern elementary school children, the ones that are now being given bulletproof backpacks and having their classrooms refitted with bulletproof chalkboards and whatnot. We'll see what happens.