Bar codes and bullets
Do-gooders Yvonne Carrington Payne and Carolyn Funches, establish their creds as do-gooders in an article sent to us by Daniel about their latest efforts. Apparently, they cook dinner for the homeless, make women’s shelters, and raise money for the needy. but what that has to do with their efforts to put barcodes on bullets, I have no idea.
Specifically, they want bar codes on bullets as a way of tracking killers and reducing gun violence.
“There are too many unsolved shootings,” Funches said. “Take the bullets and trace them back. It will connect people to who bought the ammunition.”
Yeah, but like everything else, law abiding citizens are the ones who will foot the bill for it. If I shoot someone, you won’t need a bar code because I’ll be the first to tell the police that I did it, but, I’ll also be paying for the ammo makers to put the bar code on bullets. Even if the barcoding begins today, there are millions of unmarked bullets out there. I have ammo I bought nearly twenty years ago, not to mention the thousands I’ve bought in recent months that won’t be marked.
This is just do-gooders feeling good about themselves by “doing something” even if it’s just pissing in the wind.
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And God knows that criminals always empty the guns of ammo when they steal or otherwise obtain them, right? So many ways this doesn’t make sense or could lead to the arrest and prosecution of innocent people.
And how would the bullets be bar coded? Stickers? Lasers? Bullets have a tendency to deform or fragment when they hit things, and rifling scores the bullet when they’re fired, which would probably render a bar code fairly useless anyway.
I assume, then, that they are talking about casings. How would hand loads be tracked? What if those crazy gun owning killers pick up their fancy bar coded casings?
Another bit of insanity that needs to stop. Right now!
Handing more and more control to criminals while making life more difficult for law abiding citizens is just more of the same from the leftist playbook.
teddy; not to mention if the criminal shooter is using a revolver and dumps the spent case in a dumpster 150 miles away from the scene?
This is stupid on so many levels, but then, no one ever accused the do-gooders of being smart or using common sense.
When all else fails, punish the law abiding citizen. Saddle him or her with more costs. I would address the idiocy of these people and this idea, but that’s already been handled quite well in the first four posts.
In the article one of the “ladies” says that a buyer of ammo should “have a gun permit”. What about those weapons that don’t require a permit, like rifles or shotguns? Now, to obey the law, we’d have to get permits for those weapons? Again, like OT said, stupid on so many levels.
Luncacy. Absolutely lunacy.
Do these people realize how many bullets and manufactured and fired every year? Because of the sheer volume and the need to avoid duplication of numbers fo each bullet over a 10 or 15 year span, the bar code number would have to be huge.
Ritards.
Any NRA reloaders on this site? I think you already know the answer to this one…
I was going to put on my Master Of The Obvious hat and point out that bullets rarely remain intact after impact, but my shipmate teddy996 beat me to it. This has to be THE most idiotic thing I’ve read lately. My IQ dropped even thinking about it. Great Scott, what a capitol idea–reduce police and forensic specialists to the equivalent of Walmart employees, shuffling along and beeping with their barcode scanners. (aside: someone needs to invent a sarcasm font like, yesterday.) And what about shotgun pellet rounds, hmmm? Eeety bitty teeny tiny bars that can only be read by nanobots? Someone call DARPA, we’ve got a job for them!
Baaaaaaaaaaaaa….
The majority of the people in our country absolutely make me want to puke my guts up.
I sincerely hope both these idiots end up in a life and death situation where owning and know how to effectively use a fire arm would have saved them from death–or worse.
Perhaps their attackers will listen to their reasoning and pleas for some kum ba ya bull shit.
I think not, and two more morons will be jerked from the gene pool of life.
Anyone who thinks this is in any way feasible has no idea what they’re talking about. I’m not a rocket scientist, so I avoid advising astrophysicists as to how to do their job. I do know far too much however, about ballistics, forensics, and how firearms-related crimes are investigated. This idea is pure and utter bullshit. I can’t even wrap my head around the stupidity level that must have been involved in coming up with such asinine horseshit.
better to put bar codes on ghetto punks and their half-wit
white trash cousins in the wild.
In the mean time, learn to cast your own bullets. Lead WILL get the job done.
Here’s a thought for reducing gun violence, have the ATF STOP GIVING THE SHIT TO THE MEXICANS!!!
If they can’t get grab the GUNS, use the backdoor. Remember the the SMART GUNS attempt? Joe
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This is actually a brilliant idea. I am really ashamed at myself for not thinking of this myself sooner. It took two people who probably have one tenth of the knowledge that I have about political affairs to think of this. I who has recived so much training from some of the world’s best thinkers was outsmarted by a couple of comparative amatures.
Yes there would be a slightly higher costs for ammunition but the money saved by preventing crimes would make up for that ten fold if not 100 fold.
Even if the ammo has been stolen police will know where it was before it got stolen. That in and of itself could be a very good clue to help finding a predator.
Of course selfish people do not like to pay even the slightest cost or take the slightest risk to promote the general welfare of society.
Now do not get your jock strap in to an uproar. I am not calling anyone here selfish. First of all it would be hypocritical of me to do so. Selfishness is like a Bell Curve. Most of Liberal and Conservative alike are bunched up very tightly in the middle. Then even for those who are not the flatter sections of the bell it is quite hard to draw any line saying that someone is selfish or saintly until you get out to the very edges.
In this case a person C o u l d coldly say that it is those who would want this measure that are more selfish becasue they refuse to take the same chance to be murdered that the rest of us take, and want instead to lower the chances.
Of course I tell you this in the strictess of confidence because I would not want my fellow liberals to know that I was making fun of them.
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