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Originally Posted by SPF2245
I'm curious how the bill deals with the actual marking of the bullets...seems like another left field attempt to get re-election votes by supporting/creating a bill with no hope of ever being passed just due to technical problems. I will say this, it would be nice to be able to go to a drive-by shooting crime scene, collect the shell cases...run the code on the case...and arrest the idiot who bought the bullets. But, that won't happen in my lifetime...
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Well said about the political aspect.
As far as actual effectiveness against stopping crime.....it's a long shot.
The problem becomes one of legacy. Even if you wanted to have everyone register their guns and their ammo and their knives and whatever, you have millions of each out there right now that are unaccounted for.
It's not like a criminal is going to walz into Wal-Mart, pass a background check and walz out to go to his drive by shooting.
If criminals can't get unregistered bullets legally, what makes anyone think they'd think twice about buying them illegally? Again, it only punishes the law abiding citizen and has little to no effect on the criminal.
There have been some proposals from time to time like this, and they all fail, either because of constitutional issues or implimentation. There was a proposal that all guns that are manufactured or sold in the US have to have ballistics registration..(and that those registrations be accessible to law enforcement efforts), but that's been squashed.
It's no different than On-Star or any of the other in vehicle assistance services provided nowadays. If that stuff ever became admissable in a court venue, you'd see every car buyer out there drop that crap immediately.
It amounts to an unjustified invasion of privacy. Banning something altogether has it's contsitutional challenges.
In the end, I think the decentralization of the Federal Government is working. I welcome it. If you're gay and you want to get married....fine, move to California or Mass. If you want to live in a place where only the criminals have guns...move to Cali or Mass. If you want to live someplace where they make kids say the pledge of allegiance and the state capital has the ten commandmants out front, move to the South. It's easy.
I would never move to Cali simply based on the fact that I own a .50 rifle. (among other things). Some people might not move to conservative states because they have no marital recognition (or tax breaks). Fine with me.