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·11250 Waples Mill Road ·   Fairfax, Virginia 22030    ·800-392-8683   Ammunition Encoding Legislation Introduced in Alabama!   Wednesday, April 02, 2008   Please Contact Your State Legislators Today! Last week, Senate Bill 541 was introduced by State Senator Rodger Smitherman (D-18). SB541 would require all handgun ammunition manufactured or sold in Alabama to be encoded with a serial number, and entered into a statewide database at the time of sale.  Encoded ammunition would be registered to the purchaser and would include the date of transaction, the purchaser’s name, date of birth, driver’s license number, and the serial number of the ammunition. ...

NSSF has identified increased anti-gun movement at the state level nationwide, most notably seen in legislation to require bullet serialization in Arizona, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Washington. Track all of these bills.

When U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy says the Bill of Rights guarantees Americans' "general right to bear arms," chances are very good the tone and direction of the long national debate over gun laws is about to change radically. At a high court hearing March 18, Justice Kennedy, considered the pivotal vote in this case involving the constitutionality of the Washington, D.C., handgun ban, said repeatedly the Founders intended citizens to have the right to own guns to defend themselves and their families against Indians, outlaws and wild animals, which is precisely what gun-rights advocates have argued for decades....

ASSEMBLY, No. 2490 STATE OF NEW JERSEY 213th LEGISLATURE INTRODUCED MARCH 10, 2008 Sponsored by: Assemblyman PATRICK J. DIEGNAN, JR. District 18 (Middlesex) Assemblyman HERB CONAWAY, JR. District 7 (Burlington and Camden) Assemblywoman NELLIE POU District 35 (Bergen and Passaic) Co-Sponsored by: Assemblyman Vas SYNOPSIS Requires handgun ammunition to be encoded with serial number. CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT As introduced. AN ACT concerning handgun ammunition and supplementing chapter 58 of Title 2C of the New Jersey Statutes. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: 1. a. A manufacturer or licensed wholesale dealer...

·11250 Waples Mill Road ·   Fairfax, Virginia 22030    ·800-392-8683   Anti-Gunners Launching Full-Scale Attack in Connecticut!   Tuesday, March 04, 2008   Please Contact the Joint Judiciary Committee Today!The anti-gun push is on in Hartford. This week, two proposals very dangerous to gun owners were "raised" and could soon be considered by the Joint Judiciary Committee.  Raised Bill No. 603 would require all ammunition sold in Connecticut to be coded with an individual serial number (ammunition serialization) and entered into a statewide database at the time of sale.  Encoded ammunition would be registered to the purchaser and would include the date of transaction, the purchaser’s name,...

HB 2833 Introduced by Representatives Garcia M, Lopez: Alvarez, Bradley, Campbell CL Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona: Section 1. Title 41, chapter 12, article 5, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 41-1772, to read: START_STATUTE41-1772. Ammunition coding system database; sale of ammunition; tax; fund; civil penalty; violation; classification; definition A. Beginning january 1, 2009, a manufacturer shall code all handgun and ASSAULT weapon AMMUNITION that is manufactured or sold in this state. This section applies to all calibers. b. Beginning january 1, 2011, a private citizen or a retail vendor shall dispose...

BELLEVUE, Wash., Feb. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today is calling on lawmakers in the states of Washington, Arizona, New York, Illinois, Hawaii and several other states to scrutinize legislation that would require ammunition coding, because it mandates a soul source monopoly for a Seattle-based company that owns the technology. Based on a story in the new edition of Gun Week, and a look at virtually identical legislation that has been introduced in several states, CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb said there are serious questions that need to be addressed about these...

On or after 01/01/2011 residents of Illinois will if this bill passes be required to dispose of all non-coded bullets in their possession.Said persons will able to transfer non-coded bullets to an heir or to a resident of another state....All of this is supposed to prevent gun violence. This along with a ban on any device that may enable a pocket knife to be opened with one hand.These knives would have to be destroyed,turned over to law enforcement or taken out of state. The nanny state of Illinois is on it's way,all in the name of safety...Criminal minded people will...

SENATE BILL NO. 1200 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY INTRODUCED BY SENATOR BRAY. Read 1st time February 26, 2008, and ordered printed. TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary. 5256S.02I AN ACT To amend chapters 407 and 571, RSMo, by adding thereto three new sections relating to the sale of ammunition, with penalty provisions. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows: Section A. Chapters 407 and 571, RSMo, are amended by adding thereto 2 three new sections, to be known as sections 571.175, 571.178, and 571.180, to 3 read as follows: 571.175. Effective January 1, 2011, a person...