{"id":95564,"date":"2023-08-29T16:37:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T21:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=95564"},"modified":"2023-08-29T16:37:10","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T21:37:10","slug":"95564","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=95564","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Dumb suggestion of the day: Serialize bullets<\/a><\/p>\n

In our modern world, there are a lot of people who offer up their opinions on a variety of topics they know nothing at all about.<\/p>\n

To some degree, I think we all do it, though many of us at least try to get informed before we speak on something we previously had no knowledge of.<\/p>\n

Take guns, for example. Many have come to the idea that what we really need is \u201cbullet control.\u201d After all, if bad guys can\u2019t get ammunition, they can\u2019t shoot up their neighborhoods or anywhere else.\u00a0A few places have tried it. California for example, has been giving it a try and so far, no one\u2019s really seen any difference.\u00a0New York is about to give it a go.<\/p>\n

But one intrepid letter writer to the Baltimore Sun thinks he knows what we need to do. We should serialize bullets.<\/p>\n

With ghost guns and the number of Baltimore youths getting access to guns growing in general, what\u2019s the one thing they all require? Ammunition. So while the guns themselves can\u2019t be easily tracked, it would seem the common item they all require is ammunition. So why can\u2019t Maryland, and really all states, require ammunition manufacturers to code all bullets to be micro-encoded to identify the ammunition and dealers who sell the ammunition to identify every person to whom it is sold (\u201dMan fatally shot in Canton carjacking was loving uncle, husband,\u201d Aug. 25)?<\/p>\n

Now, let\u2019s understand we serialize guns and have for decades, yet that doesn\u2019t seem to do much to keep guns out of the hands of criminals, but if we put a serial number on a bullet, that\u2019ll change everything.<\/p>\n

Wow.\u00a0Just\u2026wow.<\/p>\n

The letter writer does acknowledge that it would take a while to work through current ammunition inventories before this serializing would actually do much good, so I\u2019ll give him credit for that, at least, but other than that, it\u2019s clear this is someone who doesn\u2019t understand firearms all that much.\u00a0It should be noted that the author doesn\u2019t claim the idea originated with him. He probably came across it elsewhere, but this is still an idea concocted by someone who has no clue what they\u2019re talking about.<\/p>\n

First, the process of just trying to put a unique serial number on each and every bullet produced is going to be problematic in and of itself. I mean, look at some of the rounds out there and look at how tiny they are. Putting any kind of serial number would be tricky by itself. Making it so serial numbers can be put on a variety of rounds would also be an interesting engineering feat, I\u2019d imagine.<\/p>\n

Now, let\u2019s say we do this. Now we have serial numbers on the bullets themselves, but where on the bullet? Too high on the round and it\u2019s easily removed. Too low on the round and just seating the slug may damage the serial number, to say nothing of the round being fired causing even more damage.<\/p>\n

And let\u2019s not forget what happens when a round hits a target, for a second. Depending on what kind of bullet and what kind of medium is struck, the round is likely to experience varying degrees of damage. Will that obscure the serial number?<\/p>\n

Even if everything works perfectly, it ignores some other harsh realities such as people loading their own including making their own bullets, stolen ammo, and so on.<\/p>\n

See, the letter writer, like a lot of anti-gunners, thinks they understand the issue and have a proposed solution when all they\u2019re doing is betraying their own ignorance. For this guy, all ammo comes from a store and this is an easy solution that could be implemented at the drop of a hat. He doesn\u2019t understand anything else, nor does he likely care to.\u00a0Yet he\u2019s also indicative of a deeper issue with the gun control side.<\/p>\n

For them, they read a few news articles\u2013often only from heavily biased sources such as The Trace or even the mainstream media\u2013and are convinced they understand the topic at hand, all because those articles quote supposed experts.\u00a0Those same experts would be hard-pressed to actually articulate the pro-gun arguments in any detail, of course, but for the anti-gunner on the street, that\u2019s irrelevant.<\/p>\n

Then they\u2019re convinced they know the topic and they think of crap like serializing bullets, blissfully unaware of how stupid they sound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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