Posted on 01/28/2009 7:50:39 PM PST by neverdem
It's nice to be a member of the top 10% for a change.
I'm not the original poster of that information, but it is mentioned here, on a Gunowners.org forum(^), as being a concern of the GOA in 1996.
BTW: the little identification bits are called taggants, and iirc, already exists in larger explosives like dynamite.
Quote from the article on the forum:
Some in Congress felt that the taggants study was written carefully enough to gut the provision. That is, they say the study will be conducted by private industries, rather than the government. While this is certainly to be preferred (rather than having the BATF conduct the study), it still amounts to a compromise. Gun owners need to hold accountable the legislators who voted for this "compromise." Once these legislators have voted IN FAVOR of a taggants provision, it may be more difficult for them to vote against one in the future. Besides, what happens if technology improves one day and taggants really do become safe? Will these pro-gun Congressmen then swallow the idea of tracing gunpowder and registering ammunition?
Simple solution is to pour out the powder and replace it with a like amount of powder from your shotgun shells, etc.
Please don't do that. But if you must, don't stand near me at the range. :)
I sold all of my guns when Obama was sworn-in. I won’t need them now.
>I sold all of my guns when Obama was sworn-in. I won’t need them now.
A lot of them did that. Others lost them in tragic ice-fishing accidents, or sold to that nameless guy in the gun shop parking lot.
LQ
Indeed, I can think of several.
I'm not certain, but I think this is another case of someone who knows nothing about guns misusing the word "bullet". AFAIK, they're proposing to put the microstamp or laser engraving on the head of the brass cartridge case, not the heel of the projectile.
To make a long story short, when the sheite hits the fan, there will be several cops dead in the first few minutes sans weapons, and many Natl. Guard armories broken into by the next day. He wasn't kidding. Some of his exploits were in some bad places in S. America and Africa. He said why pay for guns that will be taken away because they know you have them when you can get the government to pay for them and maintain them for you until you need them?
I'm not sure how far the government wants to take this stuff, but I'm also not sure where the "last straw" or the "hair that broke the camels back", is quite yet.
I do know that many here seem to think they won't give up their guns, but I know England, New Zealand, and Australia seem to hand theirs over quite easily. I don't know where that invisible line is that so many say they won't cross. Ruby Ridge was just a first, then came Waco. When the BATF is killing your family, will their be any help coming, or will we all watch the 6 o'clock news and say "They must have been some of them "gun nuts". As radical as Idaho is in some places, they just carried signs outside the perimeter while a mans family was slaughtered.
Good Points.
Don’t forget New Orleans during Katrina. Lots of people willingly handed over their guns... or I should say, lots of law-abiding people did.
Actually, both plans are being pushed - the gun stamping the cartridge case as it's fired, and laser-engraving serial numbers on bullets.
As usual, these "crime control" measures wouldn't impact the actual criminals at all, and would in fact create many, many new criminals out of otherwise law-abiding Americans.
I agree. The Russians were a lot of things. Backward, technologically inferior tyrannical, oppressive ... and they were not stupid. As a matter of fact, given all their weaknesses, sometimes we were playing checkers while they were playing chess. Leftist in this country, on the other hand, depend on stupidity. It is required in order to advance the left, and misinformed “useful idiots” are the backbone of the Democratic Party.
My guess is that about 90% of them will give up and then shut up. Everybody talks in such hushed tones about the new american Revolution or the next Civil War. Not going to happen. This country will roll over and expire with but a small whimper. We did it to ourselves. The proof is in our society and in Christian eschatology. Think about it. If you're the prince of Darkness and you want your minions to gain control of an entire society and you're willing to wait generations what is the surest path to success? Education of course. You infiltrate all levels of education, public and private, nationwide. Then you gradually substitute your agenda for the traditional values already in place. At some point within, say, 40 or 50 years you look around and realize you're running things. If you're wildly successful, the stuff you demonize has spread like a cancer to the population and that has happened in the cases about gun control. In order to survive, our population will agree to surgical removal of the cancer.
We had better wake up, look at this! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTq2NEUlhDE
I recognize that I am somewhat exposed as to powder, primer and cap; but I'm working on that.
Welcome to the 19th century.
count me in
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