Identifying Bad Bills

From Fox News we have the story of a Democratic bill to require technology to individualize bullets to the gun they’re fired from:

California Senate Bill 357 and its sister bill Assembly Bill 352 would have all new guns stamp an I.D. number on shell casings as they fire, and require every semi-automatic handgun sold after Jan. 1, 2009, to be equipped with the new microstamping technology that assigns traceable serial numbers to individual bullets.

There are numerous problems with this as Sam Paredes of Gun Owners of America points out:

“Small .22 caliber ammunition — that people use to play with and for target practice — the cost of that will be $50, $60, $70 a box if this bill were to go into effect. That isn’t going to solve any crimes,” he said.

Mr. Paredes is right that it won’t solve any crimes. First of all, criminals can still continue old guns and bring guns down from neighboring states that don’t require the ID. All this is going to do is make it harder for good people to excercise their 2nd Amendment rights. The good news as it won’t stop any crime is that California Democrats can then think up another “solution” involving making guns even harder to own. So, for them its a win-win situation.

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