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Curb Chicago crime by tracking bullets
WGN NEWS ^ | 8-30-16 | TONYA FRANCISCO

Posted on 08/30/2016 11:00:06 AM PDT by Paul46360

CHICAGO -- An Illinois State Representative from Chicago is addressing the violence epidemic in the city, in a different way.

Rep. Sonya Harper, D-Chicago, represents some of the most crime-ridden communities, including Englewood and the Back of the Yards neighborhood.

Harper introduced her plan Tuesday for a bill that would require ammunition makers to stamp serial numbers on every bullet sold in Illinois.

(Excerpt) Read more at wgntv.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: ammo; banglist; bullets; chicago; chiraq; crime; dumbmove; guncontrol; guns; illinois; maryland; microstamping; secondamendment
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To: Red Badger

Why not ballistic ‘Bullet Print’ each gun....

They already do in many places. When you buy a new gun you get a fired case that can go to the police files. Each gun has a serial number also so when someone is killed and their gun retrieved they can go after the person that had the gun stolen in the first place. Criminals do no buy guns so why would they buy bullets?


21 posted on 08/30/2016 11:37:38 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: mountainlion

It’s the Gun Burglary Loop Hole, held open by the ‘Rats for their peeps.


22 posted on 08/30/2016 11:39:14 AM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: Paul46360

You already need an FOID card in Illinois to purchase ammunition. How is putting a serial number on every round going to stop criminals?


23 posted on 08/30/2016 11:42:12 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Paladin2

It’s the Gun Burglary Loop Hole, held open by the ‘Rats for their peeps.

I suspect it is a professional courtesy to the criminals for the criminals in office.


24 posted on 08/30/2016 11:42:20 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: dfwgator

Except that bullets are a fundamental part of EVERY functional firearm.


26 posted on 08/30/2016 11:58:41 AM PDT by Maelstrom (To prevent misinterpretation or abuse of the Constitution:The Bill of Rights limits government power)
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To: Paul46360

You can track a bullet from the gun into its target, that is all.

Attempting to track bullets by “grooves” or “smudges” or other patterns are a false method of putting “undesirables” behind bars, nothing more.


27 posted on 08/30/2016 12:00:38 PM PDT by Maelstrom (To prevent misinterpretation or abuse of the Constitution:The Bill of Rights limits government power)
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To: Paul46360
When do we start punishing brain-dead politicians who continually spew useless ideas and stupid thoughts?

It's like listening to a babbling two-year old.

It's absolutely infuriating to have these moronic so-called 'public servants' using their time trying to steal the rights of the people who pay their bloated, undeserved salaries...!

ARRRRGH!

28 posted on 08/30/2016 12:03:13 PM PDT by W. (Trump's here to either kick ass or chew bubblegum, and he's all out of gum!)
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To: TYVets

Yes, it was four years before they had actionable information. In Chicago, four years is a lot of lives lost from shootings.


29 posted on 08/30/2016 12:04:18 PM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man a subject)
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To: Paul46360

“Number 117. Who has bullet 117?”


30 posted on 08/30/2016 12:07:20 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: USMCPOP

um...TMI


31 posted on 08/30/2016 12:10:30 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Paul46360

Yes the numbers will be totally readable after the bullet is deformed.

But I reject the premise anyway.


32 posted on 08/30/2016 12:21:53 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Paul46360

are they supposed to stamp the projectile, the case, the primer, all of the above ?

what about the powder ? how will “Disarm Whites Now” track that ?

How does Illinois limit people who reload ?


33 posted on 08/30/2016 12:28:52 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( "Stop smiling and smirking like it's a funny thing !")
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To: USMCPOP

That is really used in nursing and medicine to help determine hydration and other bowel issues.


34 posted on 08/30/2016 12:30:56 PM PDT by coincheck (Time is Short, Salvation is for Today)
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To: Paul46360

Like illegal alien invaders, tracking criminals and gang members would be too hard. They stay “in da shadows” a lot. Track dem bullets.


35 posted on 08/30/2016 12:31:39 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Let's Make Our Government and Founding Documents Great Again!)
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To: Paul46360
For the demoncrats and the gun-control freaks, it's not about stopping crime. It's all about controlling the honest citizens. This hare-brained scheme isn't supposed to stop crime, and the freaks pushing it know that. They're not as stupid as they act. It's supposed to do two things:

1) Propagandize the idea that guns are bad.

2) Disarm "We the People".

That is all.

36 posted on 08/30/2016 12:33:39 PM PDT by NorthMountain (Hillary Clinton: corrupt unreliable negligent traitor)
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To: Paul46360
Do they understand just how many cartridges are sold every year? There's not room on the bullet to stamp the number.
37 posted on 08/30/2016 12:34:03 PM PDT by JoeFromSidney (,)
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To: Red Badger

I can change the ballistic print of any gum in less than 15 minutes.


38 posted on 08/30/2016 12:36:26 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Poo poo the polls at Trump's peril.)
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To: JoeFromSidney

They don’t care. See #36.


39 posted on 08/30/2016 12:37:24 PM PDT by NorthMountain (Hillary Clinton: corrupt unreliable negligent traitor)
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To: dfwgator

“It’s a lot easier to control the sale of bullets than guns.”

It’s a lot easier to control the bullets than it is to control the thug criminals, which they’re studiously not doing.


40 posted on 08/30/2016 12:37:27 PM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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