The One Word Dozens of House Members are Using to Describe Obama’s Proposed Ammo Ban

By Pete Kasperowicz

More than half the members in the House, including nearly every Republican, are calling the Obama administration’s proposed ban on a popular kind of ammunition “preposterous,” and say the government’s consideration of that ban is based on a brazen misinterpretation of federal law.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is considering a ban on M855 ball ammunition, which is widely used in the AR-15 rifle, the most popular rifle in the country. The White House has defended the ban as a way to protect cops around the country, because the ammo is “armor-piercing.”