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SoCalMusicLover

(3,194 posts) Fri Dec 4, 2015, 08:43 PM Dec 2015

How About A Ban/Limit On Bullets?

I had read that if ammunition became so expensive that it became very cost ineffective to buy them in mass quantities, it would in turn cripple the gun industry. Not eliminate it completely, but is there anything that will?

So all the gun fuckwads can keep their right to bear arms. Buy all the AK-47's you want. But use those bullets wisely, because they're costing you significant amounts of money for each precious one.

As I say this, I'm sure there are some gun freaks who will respond to me with why this too is unrealistic and un-American. That's what they do after all.

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How About A Ban/Limit On Bullets? (Original Post) SoCalMusicLover Dec 2015 OP

Unconstitutional hack89 Dec 2015 #1

Because ammunition is part of the "Arms" in the 2nd Amendment. Waldorf Dec 2015 #2

Like Don Knotts in Andy Griffith. PatrickforO Dec 2015 #3

Chris Rock has a bit about charging $5,000 per bullet thecrow Dec 2015 #4

Good idea (its a start) and it seems it works etherealtruth Dec 2015 #5

hack89

(39,171 posts)

1. Unconstitutional

Reply to SoCalMusicLover (Original post)

Fri Dec 4, 2015, 08:44 PM

Dec 2015

Plenty of case law on defacto bans.

Waldorf

(654 posts)

2. Because ammunition is part of the "Arms" in the 2nd Amendment.

Reply to SoCalMusicLover (Original post)

Fri Dec 4, 2015, 08:45 PM

Dec 2015

PatrickforO

(14,574 posts)

3. Like Don Knotts in Andy Griffith.

Reply to SoCalMusicLover (Original post)

Fri Dec 4, 2015, 08:45 PM

Dec 2015

All the gun owners get one bullet and keep it in their shirt pocket, only to be used when absolutely necessary...

thecrow

(5,519 posts)

4. Chris Rock has a bit about charging $5,000 per bullet

Reply to SoCalMusicLover (Original post)

Fri Dec 4, 2015, 09:29 PM

Dec 2015

In order to stop the murder.
Remember a couple years back when the rw meme was that the gov't was buying up all the ammo?
My gun-humping brother (rw looney) was going ballistic on fb over it.

etherealtruth

(22,165 posts)

5. Good idea (its a start) and it seems it works

Reply to SoCalMusicLover (Original post)

Fri Dec 4, 2015, 09:35 PM

Dec 2015

http://smartgunlaws.org/ammunition-regulation-policy-summary/

Without ammunition, firearms are no more dangerous than any blunt object, causing some scholars to refer to ammunition as the “actual agent of harm” in gun violence.1 While firearm sales are subject to various federal restrictions, however, ammunition sales are not. Under federal law....

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Laws regulating the purchase and possession of ammunition help limit access by dangerous individuals. Law enforcement agencies in Sacramento and Los Angeles, California, for example, successfully used local ammunition recordkeeping ordinances to identify and prosecute criminals by comparing records of ammunition sales against records from California’s database identifying convicted felons and other prohibited people.

Between January 16 and December 31, 2008, the Sacramento ordinance led to the identification of 156 prohibited persons who had purchased ammunition (124 of whom had prior felony convictions), 48 search warrants and 26 additional probation or parole searches. In addition, the ordinance led to 109 felony charges, 10 federal court indictments, 37 felony convictions and 17 misdemeanor convictions. The law allowed law enforcement to seize a total of 84 firearms, including seven assault weapons, and thousands of rounds of ammunition

of course, you have to be prepared to fend off law suits from the RIGHT wing HATE group known as the NRA

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