Posted on 12/15/2008 9:47:06 AM PST by epow
Legislation (SB 12) that would mandate, as early as 2010, bullet serialization -- the process by which each individual round of ammunition is identified and marked with a laser-engraved serial number -- was introduced, December 11th, by Senator Ronald Ramsey, Sr. in the Georgia State Senate. The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the trade association of the firearms and ammunition industry, has made clear that serializing ammunition on a mass production basis is not feasible from a practical standpoint and any legislation mandating such action could rightfully be considered a de facto ban on ammunition.
NSSF is encouraging all sportsmen, hunters and firearms enthusiasts to contact their state Senator and call the bill's sponsor, urging them to strongly oppose this would-be ammunition ban.
The domestic small arms ammunition industry produces between 10 and 12 billion ammunition cartridges a year at already low-profit margins. The three largest domestic manufacturers (who collectively account for the vast majority of the market) produce an estimated 20 million rounds of ammunition in a single day. Ammunition manufacturers could not serialize their product without hundreds of millions of dollars in capital investment to build the new factories that would be needed in order to meet the requirements of bullet serialization. The slowdown in the production process would result in what currently takes one day to produce into a nearly four-week effort.
Bullet Serialization is dangerous and not practical. This legislation which would mandate bullet serialization not only threatens law-abiding gun-owners but manufacturers' ability to supply the nation's law enforcement officers and military with high-quality ammunition.
Please call your state senator today and let them know that legislation mandating bullet serialization and also the destruction of previously owned non-coded ammunition will not improve public safety but rather put law-abiding citizens at risk.
Learn more about serialization at http://nssf.org/media/FactSheets/Microstamping.cfm
I would never have expected to have to fight this kind of nonsensical anti-gun bill here GA, but here it is on our doorstep folks. Time to let you GA state Senator and your district assemblyman know that we won't put up with this crap here in GA. Advise them that if they want to keep their seat in the State Assembly they had better be sure that this proposed outrageous and totally unworkable bill never even reaches the Assembly floor.
For the children.
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Can someone more knowledgeable about gun law explain why this is a problem? Is it too expensive, or so infeasible as to ban many weapons? I’m a firm believer in the 2nd amendment. I’m also a firm believer in giving law enforcement the tools it needs to fight crime.
Can someone more knowledgeable about gun law explain why this is a problem? Is it too expensive, or so infeasible as to ban many weapons? I’m a firm believer in the 2nd amendment. I’m also a firm believer in giving law enforcement the tools it needs to fight crime.
This must be today’s extreme stretch.
In a word, "yea".
Buy your own reloading equipment and buttloads of primers WHILE YOU CAN. If this kind of BS passes the first thing that will be illegal will be reloaders.
Well, with this nonsense going on in conservative states, the only advice I have is to buy, buy, buy.
Use your tax refund, cash, bonus check /sarc, etc. to purchase ammo.
www.ammunitiontogo.com
Don’t worry. Ammo will always be worth more than you paid for it.
Ammunition: The New U.S. Currency
[especially in the event of anarchy]
Too many liberal Yankee urban ex patriots are moving into the south and other traditional American areas, taking their big city mentalities with them.
Trust me - I know. I grew up in New Jersey and watched the invasion of Sullivan Law idiots from New York City and anti-gun people from Philadelphia pour into New Jersey overwhelming this state with the their urban, liberal crooked big-city politics.
My guess us that a lot of this stuff originates in the Atlanta area which is, in effect, an island of northern liberalism in traditionally conservative Georgia.
Another big cause for this is liberal black urban politicians who are successfully shifting the blame for neighborhood blight, gang warfare and drugs from its prime cause - fathers without families and children without parents begetting more children - to one of the symptoms but not a cause - gun violence.
These twin issues are a serious threat to the constitutional liberty of all Americans.
Easy. The point is to make ammo prohibitively expensive and it's also a step to registering ammo like they do in Europe. Since they can't ban guns they'll try to ban ammo.
tag check.
Do you feel comfortable with the gov't having a complete real time inventory of all your possessions,communications,and whereabouts?
Please don't tell me "if you are doing nothing wrong,it won't matter";you do realize there are so many laws and regulations that it is already humanly impossible to be in complete compliance?
You don't have to be an expert on firearms to know that this is the usual:
Yes, it is expensive and unfeasible. Worse than that it is that it will do nothing to reduce crime or assist law enforcement leading to more "helpful" laws like banning firearms altogether.
You want to give law enforcement tools to fight crime?...reform the culture and the ruling political class to stop making excuses for the criminal class in this country.
Most of these bills (I did not read the GA one) have a provision mandating that you turn in all unserialized ammo/bullets, usually without compensation.
Get caught with an unserialized projectile, go to jail.
Yes. The lasers required to do this would require a massive retooling and run at _LEAST_ 150k per Yag marker. Automation costs could be way more than that.
I’m also a firm believer in giving law enforcement the tools it needs to fight crime.
What makes you believe this will help solve any crime? It will be exactly as effective as ballistic fingerprinting. Look that up if you need to know just how effective that has been.
This is a blatant violation of the 2nd amendment and 5th amendment. When taxes were laid on ink for printing presses, it was deemed an infringement on the 1st amendment. The tax was overturned. Forcing people to destroy existing ammunition stock WITHOUT COMPENSATION is a direct violation of the 5th amendment "takings" clause.
Government has no business using the legislative process to further the commercial aims of this company nor to trample on Constitutionally protected rights.
Making possession of unencoded ammunition a crime isn't giving law enforcement a tool to fight crime. It's giving them a means of entrapment of law abiding citizens.
My first thought was it would make ammo very expensive. Secondly, it would limit the freedom of ammo manufactures to run their business the way they see fit. My next thought was, why isn’t someone sponsoring legislation to limit the speech of the press? Because “shall not be infringed” is still in the constitution.
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