Posted on 12/15/2008 9:47:06 AM PST by epow
Legislation (SB 12) that would mandate, as early as 2010, bullet serialization -- the process by which each individual round of ammunition is identified and marked with a laser-engraved serial number -- was introduced, December 11th, by Senator Ronald Ramsey, Sr. in the Georgia State Senate. The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the trade association of the firearms and ammunition industry, has made clear that serializing ammunition on a mass production basis is not feasible from a practical standpoint and any legislation mandating such action could rightfully be considered a de facto ban on ammunition.
NSSF is encouraging all sportsmen, hunters and firearms enthusiasts to contact their state Senator and call the bill's sponsor, urging them to strongly oppose this would-be ammunition ban.
The domestic small arms ammunition industry produces between 10 and 12 billion ammunition cartridges a year at already low-profit margins. The three largest domestic manufacturers (who collectively account for the vast majority of the market) produce an estimated 20 million rounds of ammunition in a single day. Ammunition manufacturers could not serialize their product without hundreds of millions of dollars in capital investment to build the new factories that would be needed in order to meet the requirements of bullet serialization. The slowdown in the production process would result in what currently takes one day to produce into a nearly four-week effort.
Bullet Serialization is dangerous and not practical. This legislation which would mandate bullet serialization not only threatens law-abiding gun-owners but manufacturers' ability to supply the nation's law enforcement officers and military with high-quality ammunition.
Please call your state senator today and let them know that legislation mandating bullet serialization and also the destruction of previously owned non-coded ammunition will not improve public safety but rather put law-abiding citizens at risk.
Learn more about serialization at http://nssf.org/media/FactSheets/Microstamping.cfm
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.
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.
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.
Then let the revolution begin.
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.
How will they put serial numbers on my 20 gauge bird and buck shot?
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.
you for real?
They try that and all hell is going to break loose.
How is serializing going to actually work since bullets tend to fragment when they enter a body ... ?
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.
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.
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.
They’ll get my unmarked ammunition back the hard way...
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.
I don’t disagree they have that in the back of their collective minds. In the meantime, it’s a major, costly, PITA!
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.
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