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The_Dunedan · 06-23-2005, 02:59 PM

The thing is, it's -not- just a PITA, it's financially impossible to sustain. Do you have any idea how much extra equipment would be needed, how much more time it would add to the production of each individual casing and projectile, and how much money that would all cost?

A typical ammuinition manufacturer can produce anywhere from several hundred-thousand to several million rounds per day. If each individual casing and projectile has to be laser-engraved with an individual number, you're talking about adding several seconds to EACH of those millions of rounds; to say nothing of the cost of purchasing, installing, and maintaining the machinery to do the engraving itself. This greatly-inflated cost gets passed on to the consumer. $.50/round for .22LR?! I think NOT! Then you've got the cost to keep the book-keeping system running, which would be a simply WONDERFUL excuse for California to raise their already-insane tax rates. And finally, you have the simple fact that ( contrary to VPC propaganda ) gun-owners ARE NOT CRIMINALS, and we object in ther strongest possible terms to being treated like them!!

As for engraving things onto the tail of the bullet; that won't work for one simple reason, and that reason is HEAT. A firearm is a firearm, after all, and lead has an extremely low melting-point. The exposed lead tail of the bullet is melted smooth by the heat of discharge; this would melt off any such number.
This entire proposal is nothing more than back-door gunbanning. If the ammo becomes too expensive to produce and sell, the manufacturer either goes out of buisiness, or moves to another state. If it becomes too expensive to buy, shooters give up and find another hobby. Criminals, it should be noted, will just go across the State Line to Nevada, pick up their ammo there, and shoot someone else. And hey, guess what? If the cops find an old, "pre-number" round of ammo in your posession, they get to fine you or lock you up! It's a felony! One more gunowner, and all their weapons, out of circulation which is precisely what those gungrabbing traitors are after in the first place. The requirements of this law are both physically and financially impossible to meet, and its' sole intent is to drive manufacturers and shooters out of California.

06-23-2005, 02:59 PM	#31 (permalink)
The_Dunedan Junkie	The thing is, it's -not- just a PITA, it's financially impossible to sustain. Do you have any idea how much extra equipment would be needed, how much more time it would add to the production of each individual casing and projectile, and how much money that would all cost? A typical ammuinition manufacturer can produce anywhere from several hundred-thousand to several million rounds per day. If each individual casing and projectile has to be laser-engraved with an individual number, you're talking about adding several seconds to EACH of those millions of rounds; to say nothing of the cost of purchasing, installing, and maintaining the machinery to do the engraving itself. This greatly-inflated cost gets passed on to the consumer. $.50/round for .22LR?! I think NOT! Then you've got the cost to keep the book-keeping system running, which would be a simply WONDERFUL excuse for California to raise their already-insane tax rates. And finally, you have the simple fact that ( contrary to VPC propaganda ) gun-owners ARE NOT CRIMINALS, and we object in ther strongest possible terms to being treated like them!! As for engraving things onto the tail of the bullet; that won't work for one simple reason, and that reason is HEAT. A firearm is a firearm, after all, and lead has an extremely low melting-point. The exposed lead tail of the bullet is melted smooth by the heat of discharge; this would melt off any such number. This entire proposal is nothing more than back-door gunbanning. If the ammo becomes too expensive to produce and sell, the manufacturer either goes out of buisiness, or moves to another state. If it becomes too expensive to buy, shooters give up and find another hobby. Criminals, it should be noted, will just go across the State Line to Nevada, pick up their ammo there, and shoot someone else. And hey, guess what? If the cops find an old, "pre-number" round of ammo in your posession, they get to fine you or lock you up! It's a felony! One more gunowner, and all their weapons, out of circulation which is precisely what those gungrabbing traitors are after in the first place. The requirements of this law are both physically and financially impossible to meet, and its' sole intent is to drive manufacturers and shooters out of California.