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OSHA Moves to Regulate Ammuntion, the Dangerous “Explosive”
Category:I woke up this morning with a few aches and pains and a lot on my mind. The back is throbbing pretty good right now, but I know as soon as I get this coffee pouring down my throat things will brighten up.
It’s nice and quiet out this morning; not many people do anything before the seven o’clock hour here in Eagle Pass. I like it that way. It’s as close to living in the peaceful country as a person can get and still be inside the city limits.
I went to sleep last night with a little bit of a burden on my mind. The attack by many of our leadership in government within the country is unbelievable to me. It feels like a true reign of evil is in full gear to devastate the United States. I know, that seems a bit of a severe accusation, but think about it.
OSHA has proposed new “safety” regulations to protect us foolish and bumbling citizens from ourselves. Thank goodness we have a government that is willing to think for us. The safety measures would basically treat ammunition, primers and powder as explosives.
I have been around firearms, ammunition and explosives since I first entered the military at eighteen years old. I had been around firearms and ammo since I was old enough to peer at a sight post on my rifle. In that period of time, I have never seen a bullet explode on its own. As a matter of fact, I have had over four hundred rounds of ammunition strapped to my body in one of the hottest places in the world, Iraq, while doing some of the hardest physical missions I have ever been on. I know its crazy, but not one bullet ever exploded.
Ammunition is far safer than vehicle fuel tanks, gas tanks, aerosol cans; lighter fluid, indoor natural gas that powers your home, a Zippo lighter and I can go on and on.
OSHA’s regulations would prohibit possession of firearms in commercial “facilities containing explosives”. Imagine being a gun store owner trying to sell a gun but not being able to house that dangerous explosive, ammunition, in your shop. This regulation seems like it would devastate gun store owners, wait a minute, it would.
This regulation would also require an evacuation of all “facilities containing explosives” during any electrical storm. Hmm, now that would certainly hurt sales in places like Wal-Mart and sporting goods stores. What constitutes an electrical storm? If a bullet is now an explosive, would OSHA call a black cloud blowing by fifty miles to the north an electrical storm? Well, its better safe than sorry. OSHA will certainly need to go in and decide for us what an electrical storm is.
And last but not least, there will be no smoking within 50 feet of “facilities containing explosives.” That’s easy for Californians; smoking is illegal in that entire state. I’m not a smoker, but do enjoy a good cigar every now and then. And there have been quite a few times when I have lit up a fat and nasty cigar while my pistol, full of dangerous exploding ammunition was attached securely to my hip. Never once did one of those rounds go off by itself. I sure am lucky to be alive. Thank goodness OSHA has decided to look out for my safety by supervising me even more than the government already does.
Don’t take my word for it, if you are bored and feel like deciphering through 55 pages of crap that could be filtered down to a comprehensible 3 or 4 pages if the federal attorneys were cut out of the picture; here is the link to OSHA’s “Safety Regulations” that will save us all from ourselves.
I mentioned that I went to sleep with a heavy worry on my mind earlier in this entry. I can’t believe what some in leadership of this country are doing. They spend more time trying to disarm the law-abiding citizen than actually stopping the current violent and dangerous crimes that goes on in this country as it is.
If as much proactive focus was put into the illegal immigration problem as it is violating the 2nd amendment rights of Americans, we wouldn’t have an immigration problem. Hmm; interesting point to ponder.
I live about one mile from the Mexican border. Sitting here in my little computer room, I can look out my window and see Mexico. As you drive down closer to the river, you can look across and see many people lined up awaiting the chance to make their break for the United States.
I feel terrible for these people. They have nothing at all, just like the poverty stricken and homeless in our own country. Their livelihood is not made by working and earning a check obviously. I can’t see myself hanging out down by the river for days on end with a campfire going and hotdogs roasting over the flames awaiting my chance to illegally enter another country. I have to work.
More theft, drinking and driving, shoplifting, assaults, burglaries, drug sales, drug use and violent crimes in this small little town are committed by those that swim the river to enter this country illegally. When I go to work, I worry about my wife at home alone. I cruise by the place every now and then to make sure she is ok.
This town is under policed by a significant amount. The law enforcement here is extremely under-trained as well.
I would feel completely naked and defenseless if the government came in and took my only means of self defense, a firearm and my ammunition, away from me. I assure you, law enforcement would not suddenly become better at providing safety. They would be too busy enforcing OSHA’s new “safety” regulations.
If an illegal alien, while high as a kite, steals the local department store blind, the police will take hours to respond. If I light up my cigar in the Wal-Mart parking lot, I can assure you that the OSHA regulations would come down on me like an electrical storm. I’d probably be locked up for lighting a cigar within fifty feet of a building that sells “explosives”.
A few questions before I part. These are the questions and worries that weighed so heavily on my mind before I fell asleep last night.
What if the criminal element knew that my wife and I lay in bed at night without much of a means of defending ourselves?
Would OSHA come in and protect me should a violent criminal decide he would break in and assault me and my wife?
Would the police department suddenly have an incredible response time and actually be able to get here quick enough to “rescue” us?
Would criminals decide to follow these new OSHA regulations and turn in all their ammunition disarming them as well?
Why do our leaders in federal government seek to dismantle the Constitution that gives us our freedom little by little?
~Cole