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Proposed OSHA Regulations Could Shut Down Ammunition and Firearms Industry

Note: As of 7/9/2007, the comment period has been extended to 9/10/2007 -- meaning we have time to motivate shooters and freedom advocates nationwide.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the government agency that enforces it’s arcane and often ridiculous workplace safety rules, is proposing new regulations that will affect the manufacturing, transportation and storage of small arms ammunition, primers and smokeless propellants.

As it currently stands the proposed regulations would force the closure of nearly all ammunition manufacturers, effectively collapsing the industry by forcing the cost of small arms ammunition to skyrocket beyond what the free market will bear.

Adding these new regulations to the already skyrocketing price of ammunition -- due to the rapid increase in prices in the metals markets, the demand on ammunition for the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and South Africa ceasing to sell surplus ammunition (due to pressure from the gun-grabbers in the United Nations) -- will undoubtedly destroy the small arms ammunition market.

This is a gun control in a very insidious wrapping, and must be stopped.

I wish that I could say this was hyperbole or exaggeration. The cost to comply with the proposed regulations for the ammunition industry, including manufacturer, wholesale distributors and retailers, will be massive. The cost of compliance with these new anti-gun regulations could easily exceed $100 million.

These ridiculous regulations would make doing business in the ammunition industry practically impossible. One of the new regulations would require ammunition and smokeless propellant manufacturers to shut down and evacuate a factory when a thunderstorm approached and customers would not be allowed within 50 feet of any ammunition (displayed or otherwise stored) without first being searched for matches or lighters.

Make no mistake, this is an attempt to ban gun ownership. By forcing ammunition manufactures out business, and artificially inflating the price of ammunition to prohibitive levels through outrageous regulation changes, OSHA will affectively prevent the use of firearms.

Nation Association for Gun Rights is urging all gun owners – that’s you -- to contact OSHA directly to inform them that the proposed regulations constitutes a "significant regulatory action" as defined in Executive Order 12866 (1993) Section 3(f)(1) in that it will clearly "adversely affect in a material way" the retail sector of the firearms and ammunition industry, productivity, competition and jobs and that the annual compliance cost for all retailers of ammunition will far exceed $100 million dollars.

E-mail or fax your concerns (at 202-693-1648) to OSHA today.

Your letter must include the following: Docket No. OSHA-2007-0032 (Formerly Docket No. OSHA-S031-2006-0665 and OSHA Docket No. S-031)

Please fax your concerns to: 202-693-1648 (include the docket number and Department of Labor/OSHA on the cover sheet and in the reference section of your letter).
Please e-mail the letter by visiting www.Regulations.Gov and following the submission instructions.

Read the full proposed regulations here.

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