The Stupidest Ammunition Law Ever Conceived
BY Herschel Smith
7 years, 10 months ago
Springfield – Ammunition for handguns in Illinois could be required to have serial numbers under legislation being pushed by three Democratic Chicago area lawmakers.
“It’s another attempt in my opinion to harass gun owners,” stated Dan Cooley, owner of the Bullet Trap in Macon. “Ill-conceived and poorly thought out. It’s impossible.”
The measure pending in the House Judiciary Committee would make it a misdemeanor for selling or possessing ammunition without a serial number after January 1, 2019. Illinois State Police would be responsible for a centralized registry of all reports of handgun ammunition transactions. A tax would also be placed on ammunition purchases.
“What you develop, you develop the black market like you do for drugs,” Cooley said.
Macon County Sheriff’s Office Lieutenant Jon Butts says his agency does not need serialized ammunition to assist in their investigations.
A similar measure failed to make it out of committee in 2016.
(House Bill 0271 – Sponsor Rep. Sonya Harper, (D) Chicago)
I can see it now. Serial numbers get etched on ammunition casings, the casings explode in the faces of the users because the casings are designed a certain way to be able to sustain SAAMI rated pressures for that cartridge, and people lose their eyesight or have scarring to the face and hands.
Just brilliant. Only the progressives folks. Only the progressives.
On February 10, 2017 at 8:32 am, Duke Norfolk said:
Of course it isn’t really intended to work, just to throw up obstacles (including increased costs) to RKBA. That they would just create black markets, criminalize good people, etc. isn’t their concern at all. Nothing new under the sun, right? (They are really stupid too, no doubt.)
On February 10, 2017 at 12:46 pm, Archer said:
Right. And if a few law-abiding gun owners get injured, maimed, or killed using the legally-mandated serialized (read: intentionally damaged) cartridges, so much the better. It’ll serve to discourage the rest of them.
A feature, not a bug.
On February 10, 2017 at 1:26 pm, Duke Norfolk said:
Yep, as it ever was.
On February 10, 2017 at 11:14 am, Backwoods Engineer said:
Plus, I can make as much ammo as I can shoot with my reloading press. Nobody in Illinois has a reloading press? The. Stupid. It. Burns.
On February 10, 2017 at 8:19 pm, Blake said:
Illinois is trying to out California California.
On February 11, 2017 at 1:05 pm, Col. Douglas Mortimer said:
SMDH!
One of the many reasons I vacated Gulag Illinois years ago.