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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 Kromagv0 on Thursday February 11 2016, @01:42PM
Your comment got me thinking of an easy way to defeat this. If one were to simply swap the contents of a few boxes of bullets (assuming it isn't the 500 count box of .22lr which would be a bitch to do in store) the system would become very unreliable. If I lived in WA and this became law I would do it mostly as an act of civil protest even if I didn't buy any ammo. Unless it is match grade ammo I don't think I have ever seen it shrink wrapped, and I doubt the military surplus stuff that comes in a spam can is going to have the number etched. Also people in WA under this bill would no longer be able to buy surplus ammo which can be very cheap and pretty reasonable quality if you are looking to sort a gun out, or waste ammo on paper.
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