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73. Paradigm shift in gun control?

Guns generally require ammunition to be fired from them in order for them to be used to hurt and kill.

A simple solution to the void of accountability in existing gun laws is to focus on the ammunition.

Federal laws can be passed to simply require manufacturers of ammunition to micro-stamp the interior of each shell of ammunition and to create a chain of custody and accountability stretching from these manufacturers to end users of ammunition by way of a federally overseen 50 state digital, real-time database (and a foreign nation digital, real-time database for exports) for each shell, box, case, crate, pallet, and load of ammunition (each with a serial #).

By legislating the responsibility of marking of each unit of ammunition and record-keeping of the who, what, when, where, and why for this ammunition, the federal government could unify and make far more effective gun control for all 50 states (and throughout foreign nations, for US exports).

The manufacturer, dealers, and end users who buy, sell, and own ammunition would then be held legally responsible for registering and record-keeping in this federally overseen 50 state digital, real-time database of ammunition for every change of ownership or depletion of ammunition as a condition of their federal and state licenses.

Further, federal legislation could include subjecting use of or storage of ammunition to regular and random inspections and audits by federal agents in each of the 50 states and ensure complete accountability for buyers, sellers, and owners of ammunition to criminal laws for crimes committed with ammunition registered to them.

Additionally, the materials used to manufacture ammunition are already regulated, but could be further regulated by including them in the database too, so those who have an affinity for manufacturing their own ammunition could not easily evade the federally overseen 50 state digital, real-time database for ammunition.

The technology exists.

The will to solve the problem of ensuring the right to bear arms while also balancing the need to hold those who choose to exercise that right accountable for their actions should exist as well.

The federal government could include in the legislation an initial investment voucher or grant to all licensed ammunition manufacturers to reimburse them for the initial cost of retooling their manufacturing and record-keeping processes to fall in-line with the new federal laws.

Gun owners keep on getting to own guns, they just become accountable for the USE of ammunition in those guns.

Those gun owners who lack the technological skills to personally register their purchase, storage, and depletion of ammunition could be afforded the ability to do so at the establishments of ammunition sellers, gun clubs, and shooting galleries - wherever ammunition is legally sold or used.

How would this stop mass shootings?

It won't, but it certainly will give the FBI and state and local law enforcement the ability to track large or sudden movements of or to detect stockpiling of ammunition so they know where the ammunition is and where it is being used.

It also will render most criminal, yet non-mass, shootings more difficult to commit without fear or likelihood of being caught because the ammunition must be registered to and linked to an owner and that owner will be held accountable by law for any criminal use of the ammunition registered to them.

This is not an infringement on the right to bear arms, it is merely a federally overseen 50 state licensing requirement - the individual states still will administer their own gun ownership laws and rules.

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Note: This is a crude concept and proposal, not a final bill being submitted for federal legislation, so anyone wishing to take this idea and make it more simple, yet effective, go ahead, and anyone intending to knock the idea, please go ahead as well!

Still don't have enough posts to start a new discussion, and once again this message was written on and submitted on my smart phone.