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NickB79

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25. How exactly would a computer do such a thing?

Reply to AAO (Reply #23)

Mon Apr 1, 2013, 04:18 AM

Apr 2013

It would need to have info on not just ammo sales, but also ammo consumption.

Say every citizen were limited to just 100 rounds per month. I buy my 100 rounds, and my wife buys her 100 rounds for me. If I just stockpile it and practice with my pellet rifle in the backyard instead, I'll have 2400 rounds in a year. Even if I shoot my allotment at the range, the ammo my wife buys for me would still give me an excess of 1200 rounds every year.

Unless you had some way of verifying how much ammo is stored in a person's house, you have no way of enforcing such a law.

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Obama heads to Colorado to highlight new gun laws [View all] Robb Mar 2013 OP

1,000 bullets is now a "war arsenal"? ZOB Mar 2013 #1

And the 20 year old Adam Lanza had worked how long for DHS? mbperrin Mar 2013 #3

To be acccurate, Lanza didn't need to be proficient. ZOB Mar 2013 #4

All targets are helpless, except other armed people. mbperrin Mar 2013 #6

A thousand rounds on hand at any given time? hack89 Mar 2013 #8

The point is, it's a start. I personally believe that every round ought to be marked mbperrin Mar 2013 #17

That is an ambitious agenda there hack89 Mar 2013 #18

It has an impact. It gets people used to the idea that regulation of dangerous mbperrin Mar 2013 #21

Should it be lower? Maybe 50? AAO Mar 2013 #20

You can't enforce a law like that. hack89 Mar 2013 #22

A computer could do it without breaking a sweat AAO Mar 2013 #23

How exactly would a computer do such a thing? NickB79 Apr 2013 #25

It's the people that "SNAP" that I'm most worried about AAO Apr 2013 #29

But no one has snapped and shot a thousand rounds NickB79 Apr 2013 #31

How does a computer look into my house and count my rounds? hack89 Apr 2013 #28

A private citizen should have ZERO bullets. ZERO. Reinterpretation of the 2nd ASAP! graham4anything Mar 2013 #7

Have you ever read the Bill of Rights? ZOB Mar 2013 #10

Militias are the National Guard as interpreted by the 2nd graham4anything Mar 2013 #11

As you noted earlier, the Supreme Court disagrees with your claim. ZOB Mar 2013 #12

It don't matter. A reinterpreted 2nd by a new not corrupt court will change it graham4anything Mar 2013 #13

Well, we will see. I doubt that will happen. ZOB Mar 2013 #14

You are aware that in the Heller decision premium Mar 2013 #15

I would assume, you are aware that 2 liberal justices are new since then, don't you? graham4anything Mar 2013 #16

You are talking to someone who suggested that the .gov buy all the bullets. Socal31 Mar 2013 #24

Overturning Heller wouldn't have the impact you think it would NickB79 Apr 2013 #26

I didn't bring Heller into the conversation. It is meaningless to me. graham4anything Apr 2013 #27

Even a "complete reinterpretation" wouldn't do what you think NickB79 Apr 2013 #30

90% of the public used to smoke. 90% of the public now doesn't smoke. graham4anything Apr 2013 #32

And that took 50 years to change NickB79 Apr 2013 #33

its the slow time of the political cycle quadrature Mar 2013 #2

Good! thanks to the President for Cha Mar 2013 #5

I agree with Marcus on universal background checks hack89 Mar 2013 #9

Why was he silent before the election? Ter Mar 2013 #19