California proposal would laser-brand id number on bullets

World News [New Zealand] ^ | 8 October 2004 | staff

[45Auto]

Bill (I Hate Your Guns) Lockyer must be smoking some bad crap. But he is right - the California Legislature full of goony birds will go right along with this lunacy.

[Michael Goldsberry]

Now these kooks want bullets to be registered?

Wow.

[Gefreiter]

And what, a box of .22 long's gonna cost $200 then?

[onyx]

And when someone steals your bullets....
the cops will drive right to your house to arrest you.
Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez.
Of all the stupid ideas, this one beats all.

[Ajnin]

This would only work on criminals too stupid to file off the id numbers. Better yet they could mismatch casings with the bullets and frame other people.

[Mikey_1962]

Laser ID on bird shot??

[VoiceOfBruck]

Why don't they just bar-code all the criminals?

[lormand]

"And what, a box of .22 long's gonna cost $200 then?"

Bingo!

Just like gasoline prices, which I am sure are making every wacko environazi as happy as a little girl.

[NRA2BFree]

I hope this is defeated, but like you, I fear it will fly through with little resistance. Another way to gain control over gun owners. I'm so glad that I don't live in CA. That said, if this 'plan' is successful, it could be bad news for all gun owners.

[RKV]

It seems these guys have never heard of an intertial bullet puller. For the price of a $20 tool you can put a new lead bullet in your case.

[RandallFlagg]

When are the loser gungrabbers going to stop treating every gunowner like a criminal?!
This is really irking me!

[Busywhiskers]

Another good reason to load your own.

[gieriscm]

I can see a whole lot of gun owners in Kali becoming reloaders...

[Constitution Day]

Not sure if you recall this article from last year, but it's a different marking procedure.

New tagging technique for bullets shoots holes in "fingerprinting" (5/8/2003)

[onyx]

You might want to read this.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"We have a database where they can put the number right in and then drive to the person's house whose bullets they were."

"Gee whiz officer...somebody broke in to my house last night and stole my ammo."

[snooker]

Get some wheel weights, put them in a pot, turn up the heat, put them in your $10 mold and be happy.

Or else just buy unmarked ammo on the Mexican border. There is usually a table for unmarked bullet ammo set up right next to the Freon R-12 sales table, right across from the crack table. They usually have all you want. </sarcasm>

[45Auto]

"We have a database where they can put the number right in and then drive to the person's house whose bullets they were."

This would require the registration of every round sold in California. How much money will this cost the taxpayers? The cost of ammunition will go straight through the roof. But, of course, that is exactly what Lockyer wants - to make it impossible to exercise the RKBA in California. The intent of the RAT-infested state legislature is to deny Constitutional rights. That has to be the sole logic behind this nonsense because it is so totally loony, that no sane person could possibly think it would work.

[NRA2BFree]

And when someone steals your bullets....

the cops will drive right to your house to arrest you.

Exactly! I don't know what the law is in CA about keeping loaded guns in your residence, but in NM we can keep our gun's loaded in the home. If our guns are stolen the bullets would belong to the gun owner. There's sure going to be a LOT of suits against police for false arrest, not to mention the headache for the cops.

[onyx]

Exactly.
I cannot keep abreast of CA gun laws,
so I needn't bother to comply... LOL.