Read the citizens’ reports on the testimony for MD’s proposed ammo serialization bill, HB517. You’re basically required to turn in all non compliant ammo (yeah, like that’s gonna fly) and only use the encoded, serialized stuff…which, of course, is patented by one of the bill’s most ardent supporters, who came to testify in favor of the bill and had to admit that he stood to make bazillions of dollars if it passed.
In short, it’s a de facto gun ban by way of making ammunition impossible to come by (at least for law abiding folk…criminals will just import ammo from elsewhere).
Update: Kirk has a much more detailed rundown, give it a look. Shows you how desparate gun controllers are getting–they can’t take our guns away, and have pretty much given up on it…so now they’re reduced to this sort of malfeasance. Public rejecting your basic policy premises outright? Try a surreptitious end-around like taxing ammo out of existence.
Add this to the long list of gun control measures that only impact the law abiding.
[…] PGP has the skinny on Maryland’s ammo serialization bill, which would involve having all residents turn in all non-compliant ammo and only use the stamped stuff. […]
Pingback by Call me Ahab » Blog Archive » Maryland Ammo serialization — February 27, 2008 @ 8:45 am
We can thank Delegates Smigiel and Dwyer for bitch slapping both Burns and Russ Ford (the patent holder).
They, along with Shank and McComas, did a good job of handling this for us.
Comment by Norton — February 27, 2008 @ 5:14 pm
Better yet, be sure to pickup all your cases at the range. Otherwise someone might leave yours at their crime scene!
Comment by techres — March 1, 2008 @ 7:36 pm
Status as of March 3, 2008: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Judiciary
Comment by Kirk — March 1, 2008 @ 9:40 pm
A big shooting and some dirty liberal infernal scribbler writting some prutrid antigun editorial cartoon in some birdcage linner attacking our second amendment rights sometime you would personaly like to go to that very person and bust them over the head with their drawingboard and call its FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
Comment by Flu-Bird — April 7, 2009 @ 3:17 pm