As the Supreme Court contemplates the constitutionality of Washington D.C.’s gun ban, a group identifying themselves as Ammunition Accountability is fostering a movement advocating laser etching an alphanumeric serial number on the base and inside of every single round of ammunition manufactured in America.
Advocates boast of
“Law enforcement testing has already shown a 99% success rate in identifying the ammunition code after bullet recovery,” while readily admitting, “This system will not necessarily prove who pulled the trigger.”
Legislation is currently pending in Alabama, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Washington on this system.
States are seeking to redefine the gun control battle more as a “law enforcement” over an issue of broad based gun ownership, “to sidestep prickly Second Amendment concerns.”
Opponents inform us it would mean,
“Forfeiture of Currently-Owned Ammunition, A Separate Registration for Every Box of New Ammunition, Outrageously Expensive Ammunition Costs for Police & Private Citizens Alike and A Waste of Taxpayer Money, Better Spent on Traditional Police Programs.”
It goes without saying that criminals could easily beat the system by stealing or smuggling in their ammunition, defeating the stated purpose of the legislation or by using another favorite tool of theirs, a shotgun, whose ammunition contains pellets much too small to be engraved as well as their plastic shell would be near impossible to engrave.
If enacted, gun-owning citizens would be required to separately register every box of "encoded ammunition," with the information supplied to the police. Many states currently do not require registration of guns. Each box of ammunition would have a unique serial number, thus a separate registration.
Here again, most criminals don’t purchase ammunition legally, they just steal it or smuggle it in. The cost of purchasing ammo for your gun will skyrocket, as it will for the Police and Military as well.
Groups like the NRA, NSSF and Gun Owners of America have successfully blocked and lobbied for repeal of restrictive legislation that infringed upon our rights to own guns under the constitution. Gun grabbers have now devised a way to circumvent “prickly Second Amendment concerns” by attacking the ammunition, leaving us with empty guns, useless in self- defense.
It is up to those of us who are legal and law-abiding gun owners to pressure our legislatures at the state level to vote against this back door approach to disarming law-abiding citizens of America, while leaving criminals laughing.
You only have the rights you are willing to fight for.
6 comments:
Too Late Victoria...
I have already bitched about this to our state senators and Earl Blumenauer and my appropriate representatives here in the state..
But I do not have much hope on this.. simply put.. Ammunition Tagging will ONLY hurt legal gun owners and it is True back-door way to a gun ban.
But there are sworn officers of the law who do not acknowledge this fact..
I might soon be a violator of the law.. because I have ammo right now that is not tagged and I will not give it up.. nor will I submit to a gun ban.. I believe in the 2nd Amendment.. period. I am willing to go to jail over it if need to be.
I was warned years ago by an official (and smug) eco-terrorist that, "all we have to do is curb access to ammunition, and gun control becomes a non-issue." I opined at the time that hand loading would then become an underground industry, and thanked her for the rattlesnake warning.
Since then, I have been gathering lots of ammo and equipment. And so have my friends. We are prepared to get rich on the black market.
I still remember a quote attributed to Patrick Henry:
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel." The right to defend oneself with the most effective tool, that being a firearm, is a fundamental issue of liberty. It is also a fundamental right in the Constitution and while we can swallow certain commonsense restrictions (I draw the line at buying an M2 Browning on EBay), we should all regard fearmongering attempts to deprive us of this right as anathema.
I have known alot of Class 3 license holders who like to fire automatic weapons as a hobby.. It is very very expensive hobby.
One of them owned a M2 that he bought from a foreign government and refurbished.. Total cost of investment. $6K.. Total cost for him to fire one belt.. $690.
He later told me that he wished he never saw the thing.... because for him to sell it to another Class 3 holder.. the paperwork and fees alone would kill him.
There's a reason you only find the "Ma Deuce" in the hands of people with a helluva lotta cash: they're the only ones who can afford to buy and operate the things. In fact, that's how it is with practically any military weapon that we generally forbid civilians from owning. I, personally, would love to get an M2 or a Browning Automatic Rifle just for the joy of having them. In addition to looking mildly cool, they're historic.
I don't own a gun , but with this going on it might be the time to buy one . Then I eill stock up with lots of ammo. tthen make a huge profit on the black market !
Does it say if there is a 14 day waiting period to get your ammo ? That would give you time to cool off before you go and kill some targets !!!!!
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