Posted on 04/26/2005 8:27:23 PM PDT by LouAvul
And if you were to "lose" your bullets or ammo and someone else were to "find" or buy some ammo from a "friendly stranger that you never saw again that had "your" numbers on them?
Carnac see a great big market in lost and found and unregistered ammo and bullets.
That's the ticket. Don't serial number the ammo which means it can't be sold in California. Print on each box:
Manufacturer's warning: This ammunition is not to sold or used in California. Purchaser assumes all responsibility for complying with all applicable state and federal laws.
What are they going to do when the police can't buy ammo?
This idea goes back to at least 1996 in California, and maybe earlier. I don't know which anti-gun group first thought this up (my bet would be either Garen Wintemute or the VPC, but that's pure speculation).
Even then, the idea was advanced with only the thinnest veneer of "crime tracing" as a justification. That's there for the gullible and half-awake. The purpose is exactly the same as the thrice-defeated bullet tax idea: to increase the cost, and drastically reduce the availability of ammuntion. You'll note the 1/2 cent "fee"* is tied directly to an information registry -- so it can be passed with a simple-majority vote, rather than the 2/3rds required for a revenue measure.
This could easily get through the legislature. It's up to Arnie to veto it in that case (doesn't that give you a nice warm feeling?)
I pray that Kalefornia votes this into law. They will need a Cray to keep up with the bullet serial numbers, and an additional beaurocracy equivalent to the one they already have. Think of the employment opportunities- they could even use migrants! How glorius! Everybody employed! No more crime on the streets!
Who'da thunk it?
Kalipolidiots need to be sued for wasting ........everything.
That's IT!!! Chronic wasting disease!
Explains everything.
Not to mention produce a state held list of all handgun owners. It's a threefer!
Uh...... no.
Actually in the base I believe. But laser etched, not stamped. Of course the base will deform as well, but much less than the rest of the bullet.
1/2 cent per round? That's about 25% on the cheapest .22 long rifle ammunition. .22 long rifle represents the vast majority of cartridges sold in the US, and presumably in California as well. It's a revenue measure disguised as gun control. :)
How is that different than what is done now with the 4473 forms for purchasing a firearm?
It's also no different, except for the serial number business, than the '68 to '86 requirement to sign for all handgun ammunition, including .22 rimfire that you intended to load into a rifle. That chapped my @$$ every time I bought a few boxes of .22 short to fire through my grandfather-in-laws Browning, while I was carrying a USAF officers id in my billfold, which is what I would use for the ID you had to show the little girl behind the counter.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
LOL.........sad ain't it !
It'll help catch the kind of crook who's stupid enough to go buy ammunition, give the clerk his real ID, then use the ammo to kill someone.
Of course, the stupid crooks are precisely the ones most likely to get caught anyway, so whether there'll be any net effect is iffy.
Oh yeah! Can you imagine the market for used brass and fishing weights? Gun powder will be next target of these idiots.
Lets make illegal aliens legal with full rights as citizens, tax the he!! out of the hard working taxpayers of the state, and give individuality to bullets, tax some more to cover the costs, and then we can blame the bullets on all crime.
Makes sense to me.....
Bleeping idiots.
"SACRAMENTO (AP) - A proposal to put a serial number on every handgun bullet passed a Senate committee Tuesday and law enforcement officials said they hoped the novel effort would spread to other states. "
And reloading your own is to become a felony with punishment to be imprisonment for life if one should do so.
SARCASM OFF/
What about lead shot? Are they going to try to inscribe numbers on every #9 birdshot pellet as well?
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