Ammo Serial Numbers?

[Picknlittle]

I had someone from another forum contact me asking about legislation requiring ammo serialization. The only thing I've herd of is micro stamping by the gun, but they are saying something about having to register ammo by serial number as you buy it.

Anyone heard of this?

 

[EAdams]

Check out the Activism and Legal forums under Social Situations, there have been numerous threads.

Here is the one for TN and IL
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=335099

 

[TexasRifleman]

Here is an example introduced in Pennsylvania earlier this week:

http://www.huntingpa.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=523512

 

[Picknlittle]

Thanks,...I had no idea,....I wish some Memphis Democrats would stop having them.

 

[RecoilRob]

My favorite part of the proposed PA law, "Section 302. Duty of owner to dispose of ammunition.
6 On or before January 1, 2010, an owner of ammunition for use
7 in a regulated firearm that is not encoded by the manufacturer
8 in accordance with section 301 shall dispose of the ammunition".

Yea......right.

 

[230RN]

I just can't wait to dispose of cartridge #

386,836,026,299,355,376,759,264,285,209,295,203,634,289B

Wait a minute. I misread it. Make it #

386,836,026,299,355,376,759,264,285,209,295,283,634,289B

 

[GlowinPontiac]

how would they encode .22's?

the serial numbers would run into the billions rather quickly.......

 

[TexasRifleman]

how would they encode .22's?

Which is the point. The ammo makers will not be able to do this, so they stop selling ammo.

You didn't really believe this was about crime did you?

 

[ROMAK IV]

I think the California legislature passe the gun stamping thing after the serial numbered ammunition thing failed. You can see the problem with this, I hope, and they are right, it's only to harass people out of their guns.

 

[printcraft]

Are the morons talking about stamping the bullet or the brass? What about reloading? Do you keep your brass or leave it at the range for someone else to pickup? Next guy buy a box of reloads, what if he is a crook... uses it in commission of a crime and the ser. no. leads to YOU! WTH you have the same caliber of firearm right? Oh wait to be eligible to reload your own ammo you must pay a special tax and file paperwork when you transfer each piece of brass or bullet. (heavy sarcasm) Gradual erosion, the Grand Canyon started as a small stream. Same process for our rights.

 

[Bezoar]

the california idea was to have a firing pin that would imprint a unique serial number onto a primer when fired.
The bullet id system is basically a vin for each bullet made. THey must have gotten the idea from the diamond marketeers in america.

No idea how to do it correctly as all bullets would need it. Even bullets cast for a muzzleloader would need it as in essence your .454 roundball can still fit into a brass casing on top of 30 grains Pyrodex.
In a sense it can be done, but it would kill the production capacity in minutes. that would hurt the companies. that would hurt everybody.

who knows how to put a 30 digit serial number onto a .17 hmr bullet?

 

[bmoney13]

you can hire a bunch of those people from the mall that write your name on a grain of rice. I think that would be an effective production method. It follows the same thinking that the legislators used when coming up with this law.

 

[crazy-mp]

Would each round have its own number or would it be by the box? If it is by the box no problem I will take a pallet