Pennsylvania Democrats To Propose Bullet Tax And Encoded Rounds To Track Ammo Owners

[Sniper 6,372]

The disease is spreading....

....."A 5 cent per bullet tax will be proposed in Pennsylvania as part of legislation to be brought forth by two state House Democrats, Rep. Manny Guzman and Rep. Stephen Kinsey.

The tax would fund a state police database of ammunition sold in Pennsylvania.

The planned legislation would require ammunition manufacturers to encode ammunition provided for retail sale in Pennsylvania, and to provide ammunition serial numbers to the Pennsylvania State Police for the ammunition database. The plan was revealed in a joint memo to the state legislature by Guzman and Kinsey.

“By maintaining a record of purchases of ammunition,” the memo continues,

“our law enforcement officers will be able to easily trace the ownership of any ammunition involved in a crime. This proposal is a much more reliable method of forensic tracing than current systems like ballistic fingerprinting, since determination of a bullet’s code does not require any special skills or equipment, and it serves as an objective identifier.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/pennsylvania-democrats-propose-bullet-tax-and-encoded-rounds-track-ammo-owners

It is unclear how such a law would address unmarked ammunition from other states or the ammunition already owned by Pennsylvanians.

[silverado427 10,677]

[father-of-three 243]

Stuff like this does get introduced on a yearly basis by reps from Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.  Fortunately, unlike New Jersey, it dies in a committee.

[njJoniGuy 2,131]

7 hours ago, Sniper said:

..."A 5 cent per bullet tax will be proposed in Pennsylvania as part of legislation to be brought forth by two state House Democrats, Rep. Manny Guzman and Rep. Stephen Kinsey.

The tax would fund a state police database of ammunition sold in Pennsylvania.

The planned legislation would require ammunition manufacturers to encode ammunition provided for retail sale in Pennsylvania, and to provide ammunition serial numbers to the Pennsylvania State Police for the ammunition database. The plan was revealed in a joint memo to the state legislature by Guzman and Kinsey...

It takes a special type of stupid.

[Old Glock guy 1,127]

I don't see how something like that could be even remotely close to being Constitutional, but then liberal legislators just go ahead and propose, and sometimes pass, whatever legislation they want, the Constitution be damned.  Heaven help us the next time we have a liberal SCOTUS (or when they pack the court).