18 States Are Attempting to Implement "Micro-Stamp Encoding" on Fire Arms and Ammunition-Truth!

18 States Are Attempting to Implement "Micro-Stamp Encoding" on Fire Arms and Ammunition-Truth!

Summary of the eRumor:
A forwarded email warning that several US states have bills in process that would require that all firearm ammunition be encoded with a micro-stamp in order to keep track of ammunition sales. The email goes on to say that any non encoded ammunition sold would be subject to a tax.

The Truth:
Angus McClellan, a spokesperson from the National Rifle Association Institute For Legislative Action (NRA-ILA), told truthorfiction.com that the bills are real, pending and will "likely die at the end of the sessions."

According to an NRA-ILA web site, this was a process that was recommended in 1969 by President Lyndon B. Johnson's National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence to provide "a system of giving each gun a number and the development of some device to imprint this number on each bullet fired from the gun."

Those who support the encoding process hope that it will aid law enforcement to solve crimes but the NRA-ILA's concern is that the underlying "real purpose is to price handguns beyond the reach of many Americans, by requiring firearms to be made with the gadgetry necessary to create the markings, or to ban handguns by requiring that they 'micro-stamp' more consistently than is technologically possible."

McClellan told truthorfiction.com that as of January 2009 they have been successful in preventing passage of this legislation but there is a chance of its passage in California or one of the New England states. He also said that this issue "remains at the top of our list of legislative priorities. We'll keep everyone posted on our website and in our magazines if they try to seriously pursue passage in any state, or in the U.S. Congress."

The NRA-ILA has a fact sheet on the issue and link to the NRA News interview posted on their web site.

Click for NRA-ILA website

updated 01/07/08

A real example of the eRumor as it has appeared on the Internet:

Subject: Ammunition Accountability Act

The 2008 Legislative session has begun, and the Ammunition Accountability Act is being introduced across the country. Below is a list of states where legislation has already been introduced: Alabama, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Washington.

http://ammunitionaccountability.org/Legislation.htm

Remember how Obama said that he wasn't going to take your guns? Well, it seems that his minions and allies in the anti-gun world have no problem with taking your ammo!

The bill that is being pushed in 18 states (including Illinois and Indiana) requires all ammunition to be encoded by the manufacture, a data base of all ammunition sales. So they will know how much you buy and what calibers. Nobody can sell any ammunition after June 30, 2009 unless the ammunition is coded.

Any privately held uncoded ammunition must be destroyed by July 1, 2011. (Including hand-loaded ammo.) They will also charge a .05 cent tax on every round so every box of ammo you buy will go up at least $2.50 or more! If they can deprive you of ammo they do not need to take your gun!

Please give this the widest distribution possible and contact your Reps!