[panaxanax]

>>”They plan to put microscopic flakes in the powder with serial numbers on them.”<<

Not doubting you at all. Do you have a link?

Simple solution is to pour out the powder and replace it with a like amount of powder from your shotgun shells, etc.

[bobby.223]

uh, no.

[Dead Corpse]

Different kind of powder. Some powders can be multi-purposed, but shotshell powder has a different size/burn rate than rifle and pistol powder.

[chuckles]

I don't still have the link, but it was an idea out there in the Clinton era. They had several ideas to identify shooters and try not to have the NRA raise a ruckus. If the gubmint didn't actually "take" your gun, what's the harm with alterantive ID methods? I'm sure you've heard the others, like a microscopic number or symbol on your hammer to imprint the primer or test fire the gun at the factory or point of sale and recover the bullet and cartridge to warehouse it with the buyers name and info. The flakes in the powder came about sometime around the OK City bombing I think to mark ANY explosive, even fertilizer. Where it came from, who the manufacturer was, and they would regulate the sale, so you would have to buy it with ID that would be recorded with the info on the box of shells. It looked as small as glitter flakes and held all kinds of info in a bar code or numbers. When fired, the flakes went everywhere and were easy to find.

The Dems have 50 years of gun grabbing ideas laying dusty on the shelf. With Obama and both houses in the crazy camp, they have already dusted off several and are putting them on the docket. With the Dems in control, I think it will be more of a blunt instrument like gun licensing or just an out and out ban. There is no need for the sneaky stuff when Obama has already told us, "He won".

I think a great deal will depend on the resistance they get when this stuff is implemented. We may as well get used to screaming about every mention of Second Amendment restrictions. After the drubbing the Dems took after Clinton lost the house and Senate, the Dems ARE "gun shy" about getting too froggy. Was it the tax hike, gays in the military, gun control measures, or a combo of items that gave them the largest drubbing in history. I think, in the South, it was gun control measures. The Blue Dogs, just couldn't vote for gun control and keep their seats. They have such a majority now, I think we may have some real trouble.

[ArrogantBustard]

Simple solution is to pour out the powder and replace it with a like amount of powder from your shotgun shells, etc.

It would be sort of amusing if the crooks would replace rifle powder with a like volume of pistol or shotgun powder ...

But ... PLEASE!!!!

Don't Do It.

[mountainbunny]

Not doubting you at all. Do you have a link?

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. :)