From Savetheguns.com
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There are many states where there are current bills in the legislatures to mandate encoding on the base of bullets and cartridge cases. Here is a list of these states:
Alabama
Arizona
California
Connecticut
Hawaii
Illinois
Indiana
Kentucky
Maryland
Mississippi
Missouri
New Jersey
New York
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Tennessee
Washington
Please see the following link. This is a full interview on NRANews.com between Cam Edwards and Russ Ford of Ammunition Coding Systems. Cam makes a fool of this guy, who clearly has not done his homework. I cannot believe this guy is pushing this legislation without proper testing. It seems as if they wish to profit from another bite out of the Bill of Rights.
http://blip.tv/file/744188
The interview is also available in five parts on YouTube here:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=gppekgor-jE
Here are the Web sites of the group pushing ammunition encoding:
http://www.ammunitionaccountability.org/
http://www.ammocoding.com/
We are in the legislative process in eighteen (18) different states, yet there have been no high capacity testing for this technology. There are about twenty-two million ammunition cartridges made in the U.S. alone each and every day, yet this laser etching has only been done by hand on ammunition so far.
Ammunition makers unequivocally state that they would have to retool, reinvent and reorganize the entire ammunition manufacturing process to comply with these proposed laws. If these laws are passed, it would essentially be a defacto ban upon ammunition in the states above in which these laws are passed and signed.
Ammunition manufacturers would not be able to supply the demand for ammunition, therefore due to the basic principles of supply and demand, ammo prices would skyrocket and our gun hobbies would be put on ice for the foreseeable future.
The Ammunition Accountability Web site above has a subtitle that says:
"Saving lives one bullet at a time." That claim is flatly preposterous.
They do not explain how they propose to keep violent criminal thugs from killing each other because of a simple alpha-numeric string of characters on a bullet, when the threat of life in prison or the death penalty is not enough of a deterrent.
I encourage you to directly contact them for more information after listening to the interview linked above. If your state is listed above, please go to the following Web page to see the legislation for yourself and contact your own legislators:
http://www.ammunitionaccountability.org/Legislation.htm
In some of these bills, you can be fined and/or jailed for possessing unencoded ammunition after a certain date. At this time I would request that you do a few specific things:
<<Action Plan>>
Watch the video interview linked above if possible. (dial-up customers might not get good performance.)
Contact them at www.ammunitionaccountability.org and www.ammocoding.com and give them heck after you listen to the interview and visit their Web sites.
Ask them how a laser etched alpha-numeric number will affect the decision making process of a violent criminal thug and how murders will be prevented when these thugs steal their guns and ammunition in the first place.
Ask them why we're in the legislative process, mandating ammunition makers to do this, when there has been no high capacity or large scale production testing that could produce 22 million error-free cartridges per day.
Ask them how handloaders will be fined, regulated or even imprisoned for making innocent ammunition reloading mistakes. This new wave of legislation, which will probably go federal after we get a new President in January 2009, is the most dangerous anti-Second Amendment legislation I've seen in quite a while.
It will double, triple, quintuple or even more, the cost of ammunition if this legislation becomes law. Ammo makers could not keep up production of twenty-two million rounds per day. There's no doubt that ammunition supplies will very quickly dry up, making firearms virtually useless.
With only 4% to 5% of gun owners being members of the National Rifle Association, I would not be surprised if this ill-conceived proposed legislation becomes law very soon in your home state. How would you feel if your local gun shop, Wal-mart or sporting goods store had no ammo to sell you? Please take action and pass this around.
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There are many states where there are current bills in the legislatures to mandate encoding on the base of bullets and cartridge cases. Here is a list of these states:
Alabama
Arizona
California
Connecticut
Hawaii
Illinois
Indiana
Kentucky
Maryland
Mississippi
Missouri
New Jersey
New York
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Tennessee
Washington
Please see the following link. This is a full interview on NRANews.com between Cam Edwards and Russ Ford of Ammunition Coding Systems. Cam makes a fool of this guy, who clearly has not done his homework. I cannot believe this guy is pushing this legislation without proper testing. It seems as if they wish to profit from another bite out of the Bill of Rights.
http://blip.tv/file/744188
The interview is also available in five parts on YouTube here:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=gppekgor-jE
Here are the Web sites of the group pushing ammunition encoding:
http://www.ammunitionaccountability.org/
http://www.ammocoding.com/
We are in the legislative process in eighteen (18) different states, yet there have been no high capacity testing for this technology. There are about twenty-two million ammunition cartridges made in the U.S. alone each and every day, yet this laser etching has only been done by hand on ammunition so far.
Ammunition makers unequivocally state that they would have to retool, reinvent and reorganize the entire ammunition manufacturing process to comply with these proposed laws. If these laws are passed, it would essentially be a defacto ban upon ammunition in the states above in which these laws are passed and signed.
Ammunition manufacturers would not be able to supply the demand for ammunition, therefore due to the basic principles of supply and demand, ammo prices would skyrocket and our gun hobbies would be put on ice for the foreseeable future.
The Ammunition Accountability Web site above has a subtitle that says:
"Saving lives one bullet at a time." That claim is flatly preposterous.
They do not explain how they propose to keep violent criminal thugs from killing each other because of a simple alpha-numeric string of characters on a bullet, when the threat of life in prison or the death penalty is not enough of a deterrent.
I encourage you to directly contact them for more information after listening to the interview linked above. If your state is listed above, please go to the following Web page to see the legislation for yourself and contact your own legislators:
http://www.ammunitionaccountability.org/Legislation.htm
In some of these bills, you can be fined and/or jailed for possessing unencoded ammunition after a certain date. At this time I would request that you do a few specific things:
<<Action Plan>>
Watch the video interview linked above if possible. (dial-up customers might not get good performance.)
Contact them at www.ammunitionaccountability.org and www.ammocoding.com and give them heck after you listen to the interview and visit their Web sites.
Ask them how a laser etched alpha-numeric number will affect the decision making process of a violent criminal thug and how murders will be prevented when these thugs steal their guns and ammunition in the first place.
Ask them why we're in the legislative process, mandating ammunition makers to do this, when there has been no high capacity or large scale production testing that could produce 22 million error-free cartridges per day.
Ask them how handloaders will be fined, regulated or even imprisoned for making innocent ammunition reloading mistakes. This new wave of legislation, which will probably go federal after we get a new President in January 2009, is the most dangerous anti-Second Amendment legislation I've seen in quite a while.
It will double, triple, quintuple or even more, the cost of ammunition if this legislation becomes law. Ammo makers could not keep up production of twenty-two million rounds per day. There's no doubt that ammunition supplies will very quickly dry up, making firearms virtually useless.
With only 4% to 5% of gun owners being members of the National Rifle Association, I would not be surprised if this ill-conceived proposed legislation becomes law very soon in your home state. How would you feel if your local gun shop, Wal-mart or sporting goods store had no ammo to sell you? Please take action and pass this around.