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A group in Washington is promoting an initiative to reduce gun crime by using laser-etched bullets to track shooters. According to their website, the data will only be used for legitimate investigations (no datamining) and secured with "recursive verification" features (sounds like a blockchain). Washington state already requires ammunition purchasers to produce valid ID when making purchases. Googling reveals that previous efforts by state legislatures to enact similar legislation have been torpedoed by the gun lobby. Initiatives are not subject to lobbying, so it should be interesting to see how the opposition tackles this campaign.
http://dosomethingwa.org
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-guns-ammunition-idUSBRE90J02K20130120
http://igg.me/at/dosomethingwa
(Score: 2) by deimtee on Wednesday February 10 2016, @11:04AM
Don't underestimate the power of barcoding, it's what enabled the "retail revolution".
How many food cans are produced/sold annually? Does it stop a recall if contamination is discovered in some of them?
All the cans of the same type have the same barcode. Most also have a batch code, which is generally either a days production, or an entire production run.
When there is a recall, it is entire batches, not a single can.
I suppose that you could use the same code on all the bullets in each box of ammo, but you would still have a huge amount of data to track.
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.