Ammunition Accountability Legislation

[CurrieS103]

Does anybody have anything new on this?

http://ammunitionaccountability.org/Legislation.htm

[Texas_Bryan]

"Saving lives one bullet at a time"

I don't understand how the ammo accountability will save anyone.  It'll only help police and investigators capture the murderer, which with ballistic forensic of the bullet and bass case they can already do.

This sounds like a scam for a salesman to convince the government that they need his invention, and whats really bad about is that they want the government to force manufacturers to buy this scam idea from him.

Besides are they going to make ammunition transfers illegal, reloading illegal, and what about the millions of bullet out their now.

This is plain old outrageous.

[tombogan03884]

"Saving lives one bullet at a time"

I don't understand how the ammo accountability will save anyone.  It'll only help police and investigators capture the murderer, which with ballistic forensic of the bullet and bass case they can already do.

This sounds like a scam for a salesman to convince the government that they need his invention, and whats really bad about is that they want the government to force manufacturers to buy this scam idea from him.

Besides are they going to make ammunition transfers illegal, reloading illegal, and what about the millions of bullet out their now.

This is plain old outrageous.

That's exactly what it is, which is why, so far, it has been losing.

[ericire12]

Here is an article about it that came out yesterday:
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/713



Here is why the NRA says we should be opposed to this:

Reasons to Strenuously Oppose This Legislation

People would be required to forfeit all personally-owned non-encoded ammunition. After a certain date, it would be illegal to possess non-encoded ammunition. Gun owners possess hundreds of millions of rounds of ammunition for target shooting, hunting and personal protection. Consider that American manufacturers produce 8 billion rounds each year.

Reloading (re-using cartridge cases multiple times) would be abolished. There would be no way to correspond serial numbers on cartridge cases, and different sets and quantities of bullets.

People would be required to separately register every box of "encoded ammunition." This information would be supplied to the police. Most states do not even require registration of guns. Each box of ammunition would have a unique serial number, thus a separate registration.

Private citizens would have to maintain records, if they sold ammunition to anyone, including family members or friends.

The cost of ammunition would soar, for police and private citizens alike. The Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturing Institute estimates it would take three weeks to produce ammunition currently produced in a single day. For reason of cost, manufacturers would produce only ultra-expensive encoded ammunition, which police would have to buy, just like everyone else.