OSHA Threatens Civil War Hobby- Serious

[1stMaine]

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Comrades,

Yes indeed. Indeed it does.

Respects,

[unclefrank]

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For those of you not a member the NRA, another reason why you should be.

[Marc29thGA]

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Yes comrades, looks like we may have dodged the cannon ball for now!!

Great job to all who wrote to their Reps and made comments on OSHA's site.

[Dreamer42]

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It's official. It has now made national news thanks to a very popular conservative radio talk show. The NRA and many grassroots gun-clubs and associations are all over this thing. Evidently OSHA had no intention to impose such demanding restictions - yet they have publically admitted to just that judging the verbage used in expressing intentions to correct the
"missunderstanding."
We should hear more news on this before the week is out. Those of you who contacted your representatives deserve a pat on the back. Well done!

(Join the NRA Join the NRA Join the NRA Join the NRA Join the NRA)

Jay Reid
Dreamer42
9th Texas/165th NY (version 1863)
82nd A/B (version 1944 - 1945)
USMC (version 1943 - 1944)
45h ID (version 1940 - 1945)

[mtvernon]

Re: OSHA Threatens Civil War Hobby- Serious

From the NRA website:

Labor Department Announces It Will Revise
Overreaching OSHA Explosives Rule



The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced it will significantly revise a recent proposal for new “explosives safety” regulations that caused serious concern among gun owners. OSHA had originally set out to update workplace safety regulations, but the proposed rules included restrictions that very few gun shops, sporting goods stores, shippers, or ammunition dealers could comply with.



Gun owners had filed a blizzard of negative comments urged by the NRA, and just a week ago, OSHA had already issued one extension for its public comment period at the request of the National Shooting Sports Foundation. After continued publicity through NRA alerts and the outdoor media, and after dozens of Members of Congress expressed concern about its impact, OSHA has wisely decided to go back to the drawing board.



Working with the NRA, Congressman Denny Rehberg (R-MT) planned to offer a floor amendment to the Labor-HHS appropriations bill this Wednesday when the House considers this legislation. His amendment would have prohibited federal funds from being used to enforce this OSHA regulation.



Such an amendment is no longer necessary since Kristine A. Iverson, the Labor Department’s Assistant Secretary for Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs, sent Rep. Rehberg a letter, dated July 16, stating that it “was never the intention of OSHA to block the sale, transportation, or storage of small arms ammunition, and OSHA is taking prompt action to revise” this proposed rule to clarify the purpose of the regulation.



Also, working with the NRA, Congressman Doug Lamborn (R-CO) gathered signatures from 25 House colleagues for a letter, dated July 11, expressing concerns about this proposed OSHA rule. The letter calling the proposal “an undue burden on a single industry where facts do not support the need outlined by this proposed rule” and “not feasible, making it realistically impossible for companies to comply with its tenets.”



The OSHA proposal would have defined “explosives” to include “black powder, … small arms ammunition, small arms ammunition primers, [and] smokeless propellant,” and treated these items the same as the most volatile high explosives.



Under the proposed rule, a workplace that contained even a handful of small arms cartridges, for any reason, would have been considered a “facility containing explosives” and therefore subject to many impractical restrictions. For example, no one could carry “firearms, ammunition, or similar articles in facilities containing explosives … except as required for work duties.” Obviously, this rule would make it impossible to operate any kind of gun store, firing range, or gunsmith shop.



The public comment website for the proposed rule is no longer accessible. The Labor Department will publish a notice in the July 17 Federal Register announcing that a new rule proposal will soon be drafted for public comment. Needless to say, the NRA monitors proposed federal regulations to head off this kind of overreach, and will be alert for OSHA’s next draft.

We will post the letter to Congressman Rehberg shortly.

[csuniforms]

Re: OSHA Threatens Civil War Hobby- Serious- Thank You!

Well Thanks to all who took the time to contact their Political Representatives and everyone else they knew to get this real threat off the stove. We enjoy a great hobby and I personally enjoy shooting with the NSSA my Fayetteville, 55' Rifle, Maynard Carbine and the old Model 42' musket .69. All of this might have gone away.

Thanks Again,

Tom Arliskas
Cadet Gray and Butternut Brown
CSuniforms