License to Shoot....

[Phillbo]

I'm not proposing this, just curious on the groups opinion of the idea.

You have to have a license to operate a motor vehicle and if you screw up you lose the license and can't drive.

Why not require anyone that want to purchase ammo be licensed? Obviously you would be required to take firearm training in order to get the license and probably an age restriction as well.


My first negative thought is that it would create a ammo black market.

Thoughts / opinions???

[Truckman]

The only reason you "need" a driver's license is to identify you to those in authority, and to create revenue for the government...You could drive just as well now whether you are licensed or not...I can shoot just as straight now as I ever could, and I've never had an ammo buyer's license...I carried a concealed gun on me for many years before I was licensed to do so...Now I do so with the blessing of the government, and I have not seen a difference......Ben

[wacojoe]

The Constitution tells me that I am entitled as a right to arm myself. You are not armed if your gun is empty.
Nowhere in the Constitution does it say I have a right to drive on public streets.

With that said, I would have no objection to a law/regulation requiring all bullets to be marked with a code to identify and track them.

[Truckman]

I would have no objection to a law/regulation requiring all bullets to be marked with a code to identify and track them.

With that said, how much of your own money would you be willing to contribute to the cost of implementing such a law?......Ben

[Mike]

......With that said, I would have no objection to a law/regulation requiring all bullets to be marked with a code to identify and track them.

Not much point in owning a firearm if you cannot afford the ammunition.

[Honda]

First you get a license, then they raise the taxes on the ammo, then they limit how much you can buy, then they ban it...................incremental method of eliminating our Constitutional right to bear arms.

[wacojoe]

No one would deny that spent brass and bullets marked in code by manufacturers to trace ownership would be very helpful in solving numerous crimes. These coding systems have been proposed for many years and seem entirely plausible to me and others. I do not believe such a required system would impinge on the Constitutional protections or prohibitions, and doubt it would add much expense to the ammunition. Similarly, firearms have been required to exhibit identifying numbers for decades with no real opposition. True, as even with home-built guns, ammunition could be hand-loaded to get around the law.

I am having trouble understanding why righteous gun owners would care beyond the minimal increase in costs.

[Independent Voter]

Are you saying that each box of ammo would have an identifying code ?. Then that code would be assigned to the person that bought the ammo and sent to the Govt. Have you even considered the number of boxes of ammo that are sold each day ?. There is NO WAY an individual code could be put on the ammo.

Additionally, if the markings on the bullet , the firing pin mark and the scratches on the case can be matched [ thank you to all my TV police shows } why is it pessary to stamp the boxes and bullets ?.