Rumor of Ammo serialization bill...

[KBintheSLC]

You miss the point. These are not designed to "work" they are designed to make it impossible to meet the rules, so manufacturers stop making ammo.

A de-facto gun ban if you will. If you can't get ammo, what good is the gun?

Never ever believe these things are intended to "work".

110% True !!!
This is not about solving gun crimes. It's about getting rid of guns from the root... Ammo.
Manufacturers already have very slim profit margins. Therefore, adding this mark to every round that leaves the factory will just eliminate it all together. Deeming the business in that State useless.

 

[sonyhoppes]

I think their goal is to make ammo so expensive and/or difficult to make/own that nobody would buy it and the manufacturers would dry up because of near zero sales. Then they ban reloading components and importation of foreign/military surplus ammo. That way, the ammo left out there has become a finite nonrenewable quantity. Even the bad guys would be limited to what they have left. Next, the public and private ranges go out of business because no one shoots anymore. Then shooting on public and private land of any kind gets banned.

Sure, we'll get to keep and bear arms, but they would eventually be useless if/when people shot up all their ammo and/or have no place to shoot. I know I'm keeping part of my stash. But, should this happen, there goes the fun of target shooting, plinking, etc because ammo would be too valuable to "waste". The only saving grace might be a flourishing black market, but don't get caught with the stuff or ever use it in public! Then the criminals will have a huge advantage over law abiding citizens and they'll keep a steady black market flow going.

Whoops! Looks like KBintheSLC pretty much said the same thing and beat me by a minute!

 

[Eric F]

Yes folks Banning guns did not work Banning ammo could work and when that is over with they will ban reloading equipment
This is all real when they try and fail they will keep trying as there is no rule against continously trying a reword here and there until something passes. They will chip away until our rights are gone

 

[sonyhoppes]

Oh, but they'll say they didn't take our 2nd amendment rights away. You still have your guns and be able to carry them. Nothing says they have to be in operable condition. What's even more scary is if they ban all non-serialized ammo and require us to turn it in after a certain date. Get caught with old ammo and straight to felony land for you! That would suck as many of us have literally thousands of dollars tied up ammo. I know I do. I can see it now...every range pre-checking everyone's ammo and being able to legally confiscate the old stuff or at least report it to the authorities.

I don't see how serializing the bullet would work with all that high pressure and temperature, not to mention impact deformity. I would think serializing the casings would work better or using this microstamping crap. If so, I wonder if we'll have to report every fired casing, too. A casing can be picked up by anyone and reloaded. Other than having a VERY good alibi, there's no way to prove (on either side) that if that casing is found at a crime scene, the original owner didn't shoot it there. Sort of treating them like "stolen" casings like many states requiring that lost/stolen firearms must be reported within a certain amount of time which would protect the rightful owner if it were recovered at a crime scene.

On a side note, maybe I can pick up some Class III toys for $50 since no one will be able to shoot them.

 

[Henry Bowman]

Notice that the ammunitionaccountability.org people don't have anything on their website beyond a bare-bones treatment of the idea.

But they copy heavily from the website of the company who holds the patent on the technology (which is a spin-off of Ravinsforge, who owns the patents for the microstamping technology pushed on California).

 

[tmajors]

i read somewhere that the ammunition accountability website is owned by the company that has the patent for the device that does the engraving, and is also pushing this very bad idea in various state legislatures.

http://thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=341552
http://thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=341552
http://dustinsgunblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/unbelievable-attempt-at-ammunition-ban.html

Among other places. Think these were the first though, it's starting to filter out to the blogs and such.