Bullet Serialization Threat in Georgia

Email From National Shooting Sports Foundation ^ | 11/15/08 | unknown

[epow]

HERE is the official Ramsey bio, a typical ultra-liberal Democrat representing a metro Atlanta district where crime is high and where many of the crime weary residents have the totally mistaken idea that more gun control is the answer. If you're a GA voter let your state Senator and Assemblyman know what you want done in re this proposed bill.

[Eagle Eye]

A ban on ammo is essentially a ban on the right to bear firearms.

If we can’t load them then they just become clubs and projectiles.

[PeterPrinciple]

Can someone more knowledgeable about gun law explain why this is a problem? Is it too expensive, or so infeasible as to ban many weapons? I’m a firm believer in the 2nd amendment. I’m also a firm believer in giving law enforcement the tools it needs to fight crime.

---

This is all because some wacko in Seattle Washington has a patent on the process. He invested 200,000 in this. He has the patent not the applied technology. He can't sell it any way except to make this required by the govt.

It sounds very good on the surface, but once you dig deeper it is BS. This is just another backdoor way around the Constitution.

If you want to give law enforcement the tools, look at consequences, not intent.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Expensive, in the first place. Many of us also make our own bullets and reload cases. This would become next to impossible if not illegal.

[MahatmaGandu]

Get caught with an unserialized projectile, go to jail.

Then let the revolution begin.

[demshateGod]

When junk like this gets passed (I know it hasn’t passed and probably wont for now) but when it does, we need governors and other politicians to say, “The legislator is our of hand, the people of _____ should in no way attempt to keep this ‘Law’”.

Of course, he could just veto the bill and save his words. How do I say this? I trying to say that local conservative leaders should fight harder for the constitutional rights of it’s constituents to the point of advocating disobedience to tyranny.

[Pfesser]

How will they put serial numbers on my 20 gauge bird and buck shot?

[gitmo]

I think we’ll see ammo-swaps. Put a thousand rounds into the bucket and pull out a random 1000 rounds. Somebody will come up with a machine to do the counting for you, just like those change machines at the grocery stores.

[CGASMIA68]

you for real?

[KellyM37]

They try that and all hell is going to break loose.

[Jackson57]

How is serializing going to actually work since bullets tend to fragment when they enter a body ... ?

[EdReform]

A company called "Ammunition Accountability" is pushing a law in multiple states to force the adoption of their ammunition labeling technology.

The "company" needs to be put out of business.

[PrairieRoot]

Excellent idea. Or, if they serialize the rounds, I plan to buy a lot, wait an hour and then call the police to report them stolen.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

It isn’t intended to solve crime, it is intended to chip away at gun rights. There may be some well intentioned fools involved, but the forces really behind gun control actually encourage crime, it empowers them.

[JamesP81]

I’m also a firm believer in giving law enforcement the tools it needs to fight crime.

And I'm a firmer believer in securing people from unreasonable search and seizure, which serialization of ammunition is. The last clause of the 2nd Amendment is 'shall not be infringed'. What exactly do you think 'infringed' means?

[Edgerunner]

They’ll get my unmarked ammunition back the hard way...

[JamesP81]

They’ll get my unmarked ammunition back the hard way...

Molon Labe. This is one law that a freedom loving citizen is under no obligation to obey.

[suijuris]

Is it too expensive, or so infeasible as to ban many weapons?

In a word, "yea".

If I may add my 02 cents. One of the primary reasons for amendment 2 was that the citizens may, some day, need to protect themselves from out of control government. Serialization of bullets would aid an out-of-control government to track down the patriots and quicly stamp out dissent.

[stevio]

I don’t disagree they have that in the back of their collective minds. In the meantime, it’s a major, costly, PITA!

[tbpiper]

Please don't tell me "if you are doing nothing wrong,it won't matter";you do realize there are so many laws and regulations that it is already humanly impossible to be in complete compliance?

This is a very good point. Also consider 'doing nothing wrong' very much depends on who's defining 'wrong'. As an example, saying something against homosexuality, biblicly based or not, may criminally 'wrong' as it is in Canada.