LaPierre: 'Next 700 days are the most dangerous' for 2nd Amendment

The National Rifle Association is warning that the administration's plan to ban one type of AR-15 ammo is just the first step in taking away all hunting rounds, a backdoor bid to impose national gun control.

"He can ban their guns so he's going to ban their ammo," said Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the NRA, the nation's largest organization promoting the Second Amendment.

His warning was the latest chapter on a new bid by the administration to ban the popular 5.56 M855 "green tip" ammunition used by AR-15 rifle.

Last month the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives moved to classify the round as "armor piercing" and then ban it, claiming it is a threat to police as more people buy AR-15 style pistols. AR type rifles are among the nation's most popular.

Without getting into the issue that the round currently isn't made of metals considered in legislation as armor piercing, LaPierre told Fox's Lou Dobbs that if the administration succeeds in banning the small 5.56 ammo because it can pierce body armor, then it will likely come after even bigger rounds.

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