Posted on 01/15/2009 6:56:58 PM PST by neverdem
Reloading ammunition in Pennsylvania may become a thing of the past if a bill currently in state legislature is passed.
According to the National Rifle Association-Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA), “in the last year, so-called “encoded” or “serialized” ammunition bills have been introduced in 13 states — Arizona, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Washington.”
The bills, if passed, would require all bullets and cartridge cases to be marked with a code and registered to the owners in a computerized database, therefore, reloading would be outlawed.
“It (the bill) would eliminate reloading because there would be no way to serial it (the ammunition),” Rollin Anderson of Anderson’s Gun Shop in Watsontown said. “A lot of guys that handload (reload) are not happy about it.”
Anderson sells a lot of materials for ammunition reloading or handloading, which is when you reuse the cartridges to make your own ammunition.
“It would hurt a lot of industries,” he explained. There are so many components involved with reloading that would no longer be needed if the bill is passed, he said.
“Reloading is cost effective and is more accurate,” he added. “It (the bullet) holds a better pattern.”
Ammunition you already own could also be at risk as many of the bills state that people would be required to forfeit all personally owned “non-encoded” ammunition after a certain date. Therefore, reloading would actually be deemed illegal.
“I think it’s ridiculous!” commented State Rep. Merle Phillips. “They’d take away reloading which a lot of gun owners do to save money. It makes no sense.”
Along with encoding and registering ammunition, there would also be a five cent tax on each bullet sold, therefore, a minimum $2.50 increase per box would be enforced.
“People would still buy the loaded ammo, but it’s a lot more expensive (than reloading),” Anderson said.
According to the Ammunition Accountability Web site, the legislation was prompted by a “newly forming group” that includes “gun crime victims, industry representatives, law enforcement, public officials, public policy experts and more.”
However, Angus McClellan of the NRA-ILA Grassroots said, “this is a proposal by a commercial enterprise that has a patent on technology to imprint the codes. They are trying to create a demand for their product by making it mandatory. The owner of the company admitted on NRA News that his lobbying firm put up the whole thing.”
Sample legislation obtained from the Ammunition Accountability Web site states, “Bullet coding is a new and effective way for law enforcement to quickly identify persons on interest in gun crime investigations.”
State Rep. Merle Phillips disagrees.
“Criminals can still steal guns and ammunition,” he said.
Trooper Matt Burrows of the state police agrees with Phillips and said, “It (the encoding) would help, but I don’t know to what degree or how it would be implemented.”
According to McClellan, the NRA-ILA has been successfully fighting the passage of this legislation so far.
He said, “These bills are pending and will likely die at the end of the sessions, however, they will likely be reintroduced next session and sessions thereafter and will certainly pose significant threats.”
For more information on the Ammunition Accountability Act, visit www.ammunitionaccountability.com. You can also visit www.nraila.org for additional information and to find out what you can do to prevent this bill from being passed.
Coni Marie Sheridan:
570-742-9671
coni@standard-journal.com
The British citizens have been disarmed. See how they feel about it. I doubt that American citizens will be so gullible or civil.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTq2NEUlhDE
Quite welcome,my FRiend,,,
That one gave me a chill tooo!
I guess the Sheeple on these threads have never even seen
these EO’s,,,
Otherwise they wouldn’t give us so much krap on the
BC threads,,,
IMO EO 11000 is Causis Belli !
They trust O’Bammy with that power...:0/
This is dumber yet.
The dont want the firing pin to stamp the brass.
They want an individual sn for every projectile!
Pure nuttery!
bttt
because of those votes or non votes, we have the the most leftist and fascist govt imaginable...
they will not stop.....
THEY WILL NOT STOP!
I voted for McCain (my mistake), but do you really think that electing him would have made a big difference?
Mac would have gladly thrown gun owners overboard in the name of "reaching across the aisle".
I don't see any Republicans standing up and screaming in outrage over any of this. They are too busy wishing Obama "success".
Well my FRiend, "success" includes this legislation as well as all of the other garbage that is coming our way. Mac is for it, right along with the rest of the RINO crowd. I am a lifelong Republican, but I am looking for a new Party that will represent me.
The Republican Party is dead to me.
They are just going to keep sucking up to Obama, and running RINO candidates in a weak effort to look conservative. To quote you:
they will not stop.....
THEY WILL NOT STOP!
Not frugal, proactive with anticipation! :))
(I swear I had paragraphs!)
they can have my rockchucker when they pry it from my cold dead hands.
Buying him out is rewarding him.
And he could just come up with a slightly different (though same) idea.
That is the one question that is never asked by the sheeple.
“We’re going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We’re going to beat guns into submission!” ~Senator Charles Schumer, 1993
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Notice how these guys never mention beating criminals into submission.
How are they going to put serial numbers on bullets fired by flintlock or percussion weapons? People cast their own bullets and can make black powder if necessary.
They arent.
They are just proposing making you a felon if you cast your own
>>>>“this is a proposal by a commercial enterprise that has a patent on technology to imprint the codes.<<<<
A patent on laser engraving? BS. This is a fairly easy technology. It certainly would add cost and not solve a single crime, but technologically it’s fairly simple. See the 10 second movie at the following site:
http://www.focusedlightengraving.net/
That’s precisely how this could be done.
File patents for processes that surround the laser engraving just like the Japanese and refuse to grants licenses.
Bump.
“We’re going to hammer guns gun owners on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We’re going to beat guns gun owners into submission!” ~Senator Charles Schumer, 1993
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