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“Ammunition Accountability” Yet another Liberal feel-good anti-gun rights idea!
November 28, 2008 | Tagged "nanny state socialism", Ammunition Accountability, anti-Second Amendment, microstamping | 3 Comments
What won’t they think of next? In addition to “Smart Gun” technology that has not been adequately tested, Liberals have come up with yet another way to inconvenience and harass law-abiding gun owners. Eighteen states are apparently considering “Ammunition Accountability” legislation.
According to a website promoting this idea, every single bullet made for certain caliber handguns and so-called “assault rifles” would have to be marked with a “unique identifier.” I suppose this marking could be an alpha-numeric serial number, Germanic runes, or Egyptian hieroglyphs. I would suspect serial numbers, teeny tiny, really small, itty bitty, itsy witsy, eenie weenie, microscopic serial numbers.
They could mark them by the box, or by the case, but wouldn’t it be so utterly cool, and oh so progressive, if an ammunition maker had to mark every single bullet with its very own, absolutely unique number. The retooling costs alone would be astronomical. Oh Joyous Day! Each round would cost a small fortune to manufacture! Think how many lives would be saved! It boggles the mind. No! It really does. It boggles the mind. You have to wonder about the people who come up with these things. (For those of you recently educated in public schools, this paragraph is an example of sarcasm.)
The marking number would be applied to the actual projectile base, making the process different from “microstamping,” which would put an identifier on the cartridge case from the firing pin of the weapon. What a unique idea! Police could trace a criminal shooter by matching a bullet at a crime scene with the stupendous, humongous, stupendous, gigantic, gargantuan database contained in “Big Brother’s” computer network.
Practical problems with this approach might be something like the following. Professional criminals would not use marked ammunition. There would be widespread non-compliance with the proposed requirement that all unmarked ammunition be destroyed or used within two years after the implementation of the law. This law would do nothing to hinder spree killers who often remain at the crime scene until they are stopped by police or armed citizens, or commit suicide.
This attack on gun ownership would raise the price of ammunition to prohibitive levels, create massive disrespect for police agencies, breed armies of informants, result in the deaths of officers and citizens, foster a huge black market in unmarked and fraudulently marked ammuniton, and cause many law-abiding ammunition makers to go out of business. Seems to me to be a really bad idea! Remember learning about how Prohibition corrupted law enforcement, promoted the rise of powerful criminal gangs, and degraded the respect of the general population for law and order. (If you were taking all self-esteem seminars, Marxist economics, and “New Games” classes in high school and college, take my word on this.)
Of course, few of the above consequences would apparently bother the Liberal backers of such propositions, since their goal seems to be the disarmament of the American People. Great Britain serves as a sad example of this kind of “nanny state” thinking. (See Category “Foreign Gun Laws.”) What are the Liberals planning that is so terrible that they fear free speech and armed resistance? (See my posts on the “Fairness Doctrine” for the free speech part of these schemes.)
Def Mech
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[...] “Ammunition Accountability” Yet another Liberal feel-good anti-gun … (If you were taking all self-esteem seminars, Marxist economics, and “New Games” classes in high school and college, take my word on this.) Of course, few of the above consequences would apparently bother the Liberal backers of such … [...]
Let’s not forget that this is happening under a Republican-dominated Congress with a Republican president.
As an outsider from the UK my understanding of the US Second Amendment is a little sketchy but I thought it wasn’t just about the “guns”. Surely it is also about citizens having the right to hone the skills to use these guns effectively if ever needed in the defence of freedom. If this ammunition accountability thing becomes law only a tiny wealthy minority will be able to afford the luxury of any real trigger time due to sky high ammo costs post June 2009, so the majority will either cut down dramatically, or quit shooting altogether. Then in 10 years time the USA will end up like the UK, as a country of passive gun collectors, not shooters.
Please can someone tell me that this whole thing is just a bad dream or some paranoid conspiracy theory with no shred of truth to it….