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Laser-Etched Bullets, Blockchain Tech Part of Washington Gun Crime Initiative

posted by CoolHand on Wednesday February 10 2016, @06:43AM   Printer-friendly
from the reloading-our-ammo dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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

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  • (Score: 2) by Tork on Wednesday February 10 2016, @03:45PM

    by Tork (3914) on Wednesday February 10 2016, @03:45PM (#302192)
    So, from your own comment, it makes it easier to identify a shooter or it makes a would-be shooter have to work harder to arm his gun, and somehow this is not progress.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 11 2016, @03:37AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 11 2016, @03:37AM (#302522)

    No, the point is that this is all ridiculous.

    Any serious shooter already reloads. I know half a dozen I can think of (I know, I counted) who make their own bullets as well, and you can buy bulk bullets from outside your own state.

    Shooters do it for a number of reasons: cost savings, improved accuracy, specialised purposes.

    So, yeah, this is based in a fantasy world. And laws based in fantasies ultimately do everybody a disservice.