Carnitas
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Couple of interesting thoughts or observations....
On the PDF linked off the AG's site ( http://www.ag.ca.gov/newsalerts/2005/05-028.pdf ) its says "...unique sereial number for each handgun bullet within each box...." That means 50 sereal numbers per box. That drastically changes the complexity of the task. Now each box has 50 numbers attached to it. I'm not a computer guy so I dont know the bits and bytes but any way you dice it your database just got a whole lot larger.
Also, if you say "each" there's no longer the ability for the ammo manufactures to comply by creating larger units to sell. If it were 1 number per "sale" or "box" they could just put a thousand rounds in a "box" all with the same number and it would be a lot easier to coax that from the existing production methods.
Another thing that might be worth putting into the letters from the governor is the idea that seialized ammo only exists in theory. What would DOJ do if you asked them to show you an actual box of compliant ammo, with all the tamperproof packaging, and invintory codes that was created in a real production setting. I'd bet anything that that box doesnt exist. I've got money that says every searlized round that has been shot or produced to date has been placed, by hand infront of a laser that was programed by hand keyed entry, and loaded on a press with a production capacity no greater than the Dillon that's sitting in my garage. I bet the shell rack was picked up from the trash at the range and the cardboard box was created on a laser printer and glued together by somebody's secetary.
On the PDF linked off the AG's site ( http://www.ag.ca.gov/newsalerts/2005/05-028.pdf ) its says "...unique sereial number for each handgun bullet within each box...." That means 50 sereal numbers per box. That drastically changes the complexity of the task. Now each box has 50 numbers attached to it. I'm not a computer guy so I dont know the bits and bytes but any way you dice it your database just got a whole lot larger.
Also, if you say "each" there's no longer the ability for the ammo manufactures to comply by creating larger units to sell. If it were 1 number per "sale" or "box" they could just put a thousand rounds in a "box" all with the same number and it would be a lot easier to coax that from the existing production methods.
Another thing that might be worth putting into the letters from the governor is the idea that seialized ammo only exists in theory. What would DOJ do if you asked them to show you an actual box of compliant ammo, with all the tamperproof packaging, and invintory codes that was created in a real production setting. I'd bet anything that that box doesnt exist. I've got money that says every searlized round that has been shot or produced to date has been placed, by hand infront of a laser that was programed by hand keyed entry, and loaded on a press with a production capacity no greater than the Dillon that's sitting in my garage. I bet the shell rack was picked up from the trash at the range and the cardboard box was created on a laser printer and glued together by somebody's secetary.
