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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 Runaway1956 on Wednesday February 10 2016, @03:44PM
Actually, it won't work for "almost all violent crime" either. It may help to catch some of the stupider criminals, I'll grant that. But, as prior posts suggest, it's not high tech, or even very difficult, to produce your own bullets. Organized crime will produce their own, in quantity. By "organized crime" I don't mean just the Mafia - I mean every drug runner coming out of Mexico will be supplied by his sponsoring cartel with virgin lead bullets. Not for his own use, but for distribution among the cartel's gangs here in the states.
Seriously, it takes no great education, only some minimal education, no strength, no great skill, to make bullets. Your typical high school kid can produce a thousand rounds on a Saturday afternoon, in between a morning basketball game and getting cleaned up for a hot date.
Hail to the Nibbler in Chief.