Reply #42: you are a smart individual iverglas [View All]

[bossy22]

you should be able to see when legislation is silly or almost impossible to enforce

this is one of these cases.

The legislation has numerous problems. First off it forces you to dispose of all non-encoded ammuntion, but the government isnt offering compensation. In order for such a confiscation of private property to occur the government must offer fair market value (unless its in conjunction with a criminal investigation). This bill includes no such garuntee.

Also what about ammunition changing hands...i know many shooters (as myself) who "bum" a box of ammo off a friend, or even a family that shoots together. What about reloading? Are we going to ban reloading? Confiscate reloading equipment?

How about the fact that a similar law was put in place by the 1968 gun control act (that required that all handgun ammunition purches must be put in a ledger by a dealer with the purchasers information and then repealed by the 1986 FOPA because the regulation really had no benefit to law enforcement.

Microstamping is atleast feasable (Even if its benefits are insignificant) but tracing ammunition isnt.

Don't forget there was a similar peice of legislation a few years back that wanted to tag powders...it got some play in state legislatures but was ultimately abandoned because it was not feasable.

So if you want to try to push gun controls laws, atleast push laws which make sense, cause something like this is just silly, unconstitutional (in many many many ways), and just plainly not feasable

I should mention that its being lobbied by the company that holds the patent....surely they are only interested in increasing public safety and not making money....