Archive for the “Ammunition” Category
NRA-ILA Site Updates
Ammo Ban And Registration Proposal Getting Fresh Look
Friday, December 12, 2008
Happy Holidays: Now dispose of all of your ammunition! Every last round! From now on, you will be able to buy only overpriced ammunition that will be registered to you in a government database.
Not yet–at least for now. A small company, Ammunition Accountability–which wants to help anti-gunners price and regulate the Second Amendment out of existence, profit at the expense of our rights, or both–has found radical anti-gun legislators in 18 states willing to introduce bills pushing such nonsense.
But few anti-gun proposals are so overtly aimed at destroying the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. As we began noting on http://www.nraila.org/in January, so-called “encoded ammunition” or “serialized ammunition” bills would require ammunition manufacturers to engrave a serial number on the base of the bullet and the inside of the cartridge casing of each round of ammunition for popular sporting caliber center-fire rifles, all center-fire pistols, all .22 rimfire rifles and pistols, and all 12 gauge shotguns. In all but one of the bills, people would be required to forfeit all personally owned non-”encoded” ammunition. After a certain date, it would be illegal to possess non-”encoded” ammunition. Reloading would be rendered illegal.
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The folks from ammunition accountability are at it again this year. Although this piece of legislation keeps dying every time it is proposed, they are trying again. There tag line of saving lives one bullet at a time is comical at best. The system has many conceptual problems, including increasing the manufacturing cost of ammunition, as well as local, state and federal agency administrative cost. The thought that one could track a criminal through a registered bullet is a little far fetched.
What makes one think if criminals steal guns, and deface serial numbers on guns, they will not do the same for ammunition?
From WND:
Group asks states to track citizens’ ammo
Organization claims it is ’saving lives 1 bullet at a time’
By Chelsea Schilling
© 2008 WorldNetDaily
Legislation to trace ammunition is pending in several states, and many gun owners are concerned that it is just another attempt by anti-gun groups to violate citizens’ Second Amendment rights.An organization known as Ammunition Accountability is pushing to make coding technology mandatory across the nation. Its website claims it is a group of “gun crime victims, industry representatives, law enforcement, public officials, public policy experts, and more” who are “saving lives one bullet at a time.”
If states pass the legislation, manufacturers will be required to laser etch a serial number into the back of each bullet and the inside of cartridge casings, a patented process developed by Seattle, Wash., resident Russ Ford and his business partners, Steve Mace and John Knickerbocker.
According to Seattle Weekly, the men couldn’t find an ammunition manufacturer to agree to stamp bullets, so they hired a lobbyist to push for state legislation to require the laser coding. They launched the Ammunition Accountability website and successfully introduced bills in the following 18 states: Alabama, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee and Washington.
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Here is a great post from Snowflakes in Hell
Obnoxious Reloads
The Arizona Rifleman talks about problematic reloads, namely loads made from demiled components. You see, the United States government is forbidden from surplussing ammunition these days, thanks to our last gun hating Commander-in-Chief, Bill Clinton. But it’s not illegal to dismantle surplus into their components and sell those. I’ve been using such lake city brass for a while now. You have to be careful, because as he mentions, the components can get damaged or deformed as they are demiled.
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The Firearm Blog had information about the AR57 earlier in the year, here is an update. This AR57 is fully suppressed:
Sneak peek of intergrally suppressed AR57
The AR Five Seven is a one piece 5.7×28mm upper that attaches to a AR-15 lower and uses the 50 round FN P90 magazines. 57 Center posted a few photos of their new integrally suppressed AR57 model:
How cool is that!
An integral suppressor encompasses the barrel which is ported at various strategic points to bleed off gas. The advantage is that the suppressor does not extend much further than the muzzle, if at all, and its weight is distributed along the barrel instead of in front of the muzzle.
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Here is a great post from NSSF: Aiming for Accuracy
Media Gets it Right on Lead Ammo
After several weeks where all too many articles about eating game harvested with lead ammunition were negative, it seems as though more and more members of the media are understanding the true facts.
Take a recent article by Connie Mertz, “Lead ammo does not spoil harvested game.” This reporter took the time to ask all the right questions, understanding that “researchers” who have ties to anti-hunting groups may not be the most accurate sources of information when it comes to issues of game and ammunition.
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