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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 Gravis on Thursday February 11 2016, @08:30AM
How many guns/cars in circulation in US? Now, how many bullets?
millions and many millions. what's your point? do you think we are going to run out of numbers or something?
How fast/cheap a car without a license plate can be detected?
it's super easy to remove and replace the plates, so you could wait until just before you commit a crime to remove them. it couldn't be detected in time to prevent crime but that's not the point of them, now is it?
Now, how would one detect a non-licensed bullet?
the same questions apply to gun serial numbers. it's after the fact but that doesn't mean we should just give up on them.
How expensive would it be to produce such a bullet?
the expense is in the time it takes, just like serial numbers on guns.
just because it doesn't work 100% of the time does not mean it's not worth doing.