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.
