Friday, April 29, 2005

Another Creative Firearms Law in California

H/T to Ravenwood's Universe.
Sacramento -- Legislation that would require handgun ammunition to carry identifying markings that could be used to trace spent rounds at crime scenes back to the person who purchased the bullets passed out of a state Senate committee Tuesday.

Makes you wonder how they will enforce this. I mean, no other state requires this. And no one ever carries ammo across state lines.

What are they going to use for the "identifying marking?" Serial number? That will be interesting. Imagine the job of etching little 8 digit serial numbers on the cartridge and the projectile.

Brilliant.

1 comment:

Granted said...

Well, jeez, you know, maybe the fact that bullets tend to shred on their way through bone and after hitting concrete or rocks might just, possibly, affect the readability of that little number. Further, how distinctive must this number be? A globally unique identifier between each bullet and shell? That's at least a 16bit number. You'll have to wrap it around the bullet twice. Imagine a little .22 with this thing engraved on it. Well then, just mark each batch of ammo? It won't be an issue that Tommy the Thug bought a batch at the same time as Paul the Policeman, right? California is truly a special place.