De Facto Gun Registration Scheme Proposed in Maryland!

[Cavalier Knight]

Friday, February 01, 2008

House Bill 517, introduced by State Delegate Emmett Burns (D-10), would have drastic effects on the sale of ammunition in Maryland. HB517 would require ammunition manufacturers to encode a serial number on all ammunition for regulated firearms (handguns and “assault weapons”) sold in the state and register the ammunition to the purchaser. Only shotgun ammunition is exempted. All non-encoded ammunition privately possessed would have to be disposed of by January 1, 2009. HB517 would also create an extensive and intrusive database on all ammunition purchasers.

Ammunition sellers would be required to submit to the database, the name and address of all ammunition manufacturers and the serial number of all ammunition. Also collected in the database would be information about the purchaser of ammunition, including the name, date of birth, driver’s license number, serial number of ammunition purchased, and “any other information the Secretary (of State Police) considers necessary.” This database would be funded by a five cent per round tax on encoded ammunition, significantly increasing the cost of ammunition.

By raising the cost and burden on ammunition manufacturers and dealers, this bill will likely drive the firearm business out of the State of Maryland.

The House Judiciary Committee and the House Ways & Means Committee have scheduled HB517 for a hearing on Tuesday, February 26. Please contact the members of these committees and respectively urge them to oppose this dangerous bill and protect your Second Amendment rights.

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[ServiceSoon]

This type of legislation is showing up in many states.

 

[FPrice]

By raising the cost and burden on ammunition manufacturers and dealers, this bill will likely drive the firearm business out of the State of Maryland.

"Surprise, surprise."

Any other questions as to their real intent?

 

[Daemon688]

I wish gun/ammo manufacturers would have the balls to say something like:

"Fine, we won't comply. Instead we will sell nothing in your state including to all your police departments". I think that would kill bills like these pretty darn quick.

 

[CBS220]

There was a clause in the CA microstamping bill that pretty much said that if the technology was unavailable or unfeasible, then it couldn't be implemented. Wonder if this is the same?

 

[cpileri]

doing the math

A cool ADDITIONAL $250.00 on a case of 22LR!

C-

 

[RP88]

the ATF is widely against these kinds of bills.

I agree that ammo manufacturers should just refuse to sell to law enforcement in that state if they get treated that way. If Maryland doesnt want guns, then they wont have guns. period. Police should learn how to effectively throw rocks for now on, then. And as for criminal tracking, there are so, so, so many ways around the tracking.

 

[yokel]

This type of legislation is showing up in many states.

Not unlike an insidious disease, eh?


In a very real sense it may be the last card held by a movement increasingly ensnared in a resentful quest to marginalize the dignity of individuals and abrogate certain constitutional rights (such as domestic disarmament).