Crafty indeed!
So I wonder if this affects ammunition for Police Depts?
Eternally responsible... - so who gets popped for ammo used later by a criminal with the serial number coming back to a Police Dept?
Reloading, as some Depts do reload I would hazard to guess and what about expended cases in training and quals?
Again, who gets popped if that brass is traced back to a Police Dept?
I can see where this might not get passed, at all, or severely rethought.
i.e. UK banned all knives and it dawned on folks, this meant knives for cooks and chefs to prep food.
It sure will cost money to implement, and enforce.
It will not look good the first time a crime is done with a firearm, already not legal in part of IL, and not be able to trace back where that ctg came from, to appease the voters and tax payers that had to pay for all this .
Then again, BP and homemade bullets are not a new thing, and single shot, and O/U, and SxS shotguns do not expend brass and really hard to serial number all them pellets.
Single shot .22 is another one , that does not leave brass...
Emotions for votes...I really see this biting some butts on both sides of the fence, and the antis getting bit the hardest.
Like NO ammo sales to IL, including Police Depts., so ammo mfg cannot get sued at all...
Oh it would hurt the law abiding a lot, not affect the thugs so much.
Police need ammo, they will run out, and will need reloading supplies...
Even gun grabbers might concede and do their side more harm advocating some ammo sales and reloading so Police can protect them.
Slippery slopes and tangled webs for sure.
If the ammo mfg are really Pro Gun, I'd stop all sales to Police Depts in a hearbeat.
Cut Police Depts off at the knees first and send a message before all this comes up.
Time to play hardball...
Ammo mfgs and Distributors quit selling to Police Depts.