Anybody got any idea just how much ammo is out there?
How many billions of rounds? How many billions of dollars worth of private property this kind of bill would make illegal to own, and do it in less than one year from now, if passed? Not to mention the fact that ALL ammo companies would have to shut down while they spent how much? on tooling to comply with this insane idea?
And what about those thousands (hundreds of thousands? millions?)of people who cast their own bullets?
And there would have to be some kind of centralized database, not only to track individual bullet serial numbers, but just to ensure that Remington, Federal, Winchester, Black Hills, Buffalo Bore, etc.etc.etc., didn't duplicate numbers. And who do you think they will make pay for that?! For foreign ammo, it is an easy fix, they just ban sale and importation.
I say follow the money, to the end of the trail, and find the varmints responsible. Then make it widely and publically known just how much they paid congressmen to push this kind of bill, and what they stand to gain from it. This has the potential to be the ultimate special interest profiteering. Look at the bill (now law?) in California that requires "microstamping" so that each handgun "stamps" the fired case with an individual ID#. I understand that the technology to do that (and the machinery) are patented, owned soley by one company, and ultimately one individual. There has been asbsolutely no mention of the government buying the machinery and issuing it to gun makers, nor of them even selling it to the gun makers who want to sell their legal products in CA. As it stands right now, all the costs of what amounts to an unfunded mandate interfereing with interstate commerce would have to be borne by the manufacturers, and so ultimately the cosumer. AND ALL of the profit from fees charged for using patented technology (as required by the {proposed?} law) would go to those individuals in the company that holds the patent!!!!! NOT the state!!!
At least with state mansdated auto insurance, you get a choice of companies competeing for your business, and so a choice of costs. Not so with the microstamping act. This diesn't seem right to me, how about you?
Somewhere out there are some folks who would profit, and likely profit handsomely from a law that requires individual ser#s on bullets. We need to find them, and expose them for the greedy monopolists they wish to be. Theere has to be something about fair trade practices or something that would pose a legal barrier to this kind of thing, besides the common sense of our elected representatives. Some do have it, but over all it seems to be in short supply, the very proposal of a ser# ammo bill proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that some of the folks we elected are not firmly in touch with objective reality. Do we really want someone either so ignorant and deluded, or so cynical and greedy making decisions and laws about other important issues? I don't.
