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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 10 2016, @09:50PM
It's not even that hard. Just fire the bullet safely into a target. Cast your own bullet by melting down some lead. Refill the bullet (press out the primer with an punch, re-primer it, refill the gunpowder, press the lead back into the jacket with a C clamp). No gunpowder or primer? Fine, just use match books. [youtube.com] Seriously, this shit is not rocket science. This is the real reason why they say: If you outlaw guns only outlaws will have guns. Any idiot can make guns and bullets.
They make ammo refillers / presses for doing lots of shells, if you want to get industrious about it.
Thugs will delight in having a new market for their own non-laser etched "thug ammo". Just like the thugs in prohibition created their own brands of booze... Will the world ever learn?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday February 11 2016, @06:41AM
No. The righteous will always believe that there's a God that will reward their effort, no matter how much pain their righteousness is causing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0