Angie Craig: “the Fraternal Order of Police, 311,000 police, oppose what the Senator from Massachusetts has just said. Their official…”

“the Fraternal Order of Police, 311,000 police, oppose what the Senator from Massachusetts has just said. Their official organization says this is nothing more than a smokescreen to ban about 30 percent of ammunition that is currently in the market for the purpose of hunting, for the purpose of using in it a law-abiding way by sportsmen. Can a piece of ammunition, shot in a 30.06, that will kill a deer or an elk pierce certain types of armor? The answer is, yes, it can. The Senator from Massachusetts is truthful in that. But do we want to now summarily erase all of that from the market or do we want to do an official bona fide ballistic study, directed by the Department of Justice, to have a clear and clean understanding of what is, in fact, armor piercing and what is, in fact, a legitimate piece of ammunition that is used by marksmen, that is used by sportsmen, that is used in the legitimate business of hunting that we have longtime said is a great tradition in this country? Anti-gunners have always said, if you can't get the gun, go after the ammo--if you can't get the gun, go after the ammo. Clearly, the underlying amendment that we will debate next goes after the ammo. The Frist-Craig amendment says, whoa, wait a minute, let's make darn sure what we are doing is the right thing before we go there. No one is in favor of a cop-killer bullet. Shame on anybody who would accuse any Senator on this floor for being in favor of a cop-killer bullet.”