Ammunition Accountability Act

[Jim thingyen]

I believe this is unworkable. With the millions of rounds out there it would be years before the old ones were used, and the black market for shells without markings would be tremendous. Are we going to do house to house searches??

Here is what it is about...
All you politicians get to work DO NOT LET THIS HAPPEN!!!

Ok, lets get out there and let our state Legislature know that we do not want this bill passed, and petition them to vote no on this bill. We should keep after thim untill the bill is closed. By bombarding them with e-mails, phone calls, and letters.
Remember how Obama said that he wasn't going to take your guns? Well, it seems that his minions and allies in the anti-gun world have no problem with taking your ammo! The bill that is being pushed in 18 states (including Illinois and Indiana) requires all ammunition to be encoded by the manufacture a data base of all ammunition sales. So they will know how much you buy and what calibers. Nobody can sell any ammunition after June 30, 2009 unless the ammunition is coded.

Any privately held uncoded ammunition must be destroyed by July 1, 2011. (Including hand loaded ammo.) They will also charge a .05 cent tax on every round so every box of ammo you buy will go up at least $2.50 or more! If they can deprive you of ammo they do not need to take your gun!

This legislation is currently pending in 18 states: Alabama, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Washington.

To find more about the anti-gun group that is sponsoring this legislation and the specific legislation for each state, go to: ammunitionaccountability.org/Legislation.htm

Ammunition Accountability Act
SAMPLE LEGISLATION

An ACT relating to firearms and ammunition; requiring [AGENCY] to establish a statewide database to track coded ammunition manufactured and sold for handguns and assault rifles.

Section 1. Legislative Findings.
The State Legislature hereby finds the following: Each year in the United States, more than 30% of all homicides that involve a gun go unsolved. Handgun ammunition accounts for 80% of all ammunition sold in the United States. Current technology for matching a bullet used in a crime to the gun that fired it has worked moderately well for years, but presupposes that the weapon was recovered by law enforcement. Bullet coding is a new and effective way for law enforcement to quickly identify persons of interest in gun crime investigations.
(30% go unsolved.. what percentage of homicides will be solved with this technology? How will marking ammo improve solve rates when it can simply be altered before use, and unmarked ammo is currently available.)

Section 2. Definitions. For purposes of this chapter, "coded ammunition" means a bullet carrying a unique identifier that has been applied by etching onto the base of the bullet projectile.
(Most ammo is made of lead, simply pulling the bullet and removing the marks on it will render this law null and void. There are plenty of reloaders currently on the market. Criminals will know how to do it and those who do not would have been caught any way.)

Section 3. Prohibition on possession or sale of non-coded ammunition.
1. All handgun and assault weapon ammunition manufactured or sold in the state after January 1, 2009, shall be coded by the manufacturer.
(Impossible to achieve by January 1 of 2009. Current supplies are too large and would have to be destroyed at the cost of Millions to the Ammunition Industry.)
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a. The calibers covered by the coding requirement shall include:

[libhunter]

Excellent idea. This is awesome idea to control the number of guns that are in the hands of criminals and a really good way to track these nut cases that are making our cities centers of ccriminal activity.
How better to control things thatn a way to track the ammo that you buy. No gun control, contorl the ammo .. awesome.

[huntgal]

Oh boy another lib thnking gun control is a good thng.
You really need to reread the constitution & the history of this country and thw world.
Oppression is the what u get when u give up control.

[gunguygal]

I have yet to see any control.
Except a way to take our guns away.
First step is our ammo.
Law enforcement takes notes.
What do you do with notes.
Paper trail!

[morrow]

Don't the libs realize that a criminal defense lawyer will shoot holes completely through this bill? There is no way in heck that they can convict (much less on a capital case) by registration numbers. Look at the DNA cases thrown out. All this does is hassle the law abiding hunter. That's the difference between the Utipian seekers (translation: Californians) and realistic people. What people have done is stock up on ammo until the public realizes they got a snow job by the Annointed One.

[pat81]

The libs never post the drop in murders, rape, robberies and such when people are carrying. They cant because their entire basis for trying to take away our weapons. This bill would only make crime worse because your taking away peoples defense. I dont know what idiot thinks a criminal is going to use encoded ammo, especially since they arent shooting with guns registered to them to begin with. I see a new blackmarket being formed if this comes to light also. I can still think back to when ammo was cheap before clinton was in office. Noone mentions the millions of dollars in ammo our military has to burn now because it cant be sold to the public any more.