Reply #40: It's a pipe dream. [View All]

[Turbo Teg]

But all it will really do is make ammo more expensive, or a gun more expensive. If you have a firing pin that stamps the primer with a serial number every time it is fired, it will slow down production times of firearms, and that increases cost for two reasons, A. Production goes down while demand stays the same, B. You now have to pay for new tooling. Why would using the firing pin as a stamper be bad? Because it's way to easy to beat. All you need to do is get a new firing pin without any stamping and done. It takes me about 3 minutes to swap a firing pin on my Glock. Can't get ahold of a firing pin? Use a dremel on the one you got. This also doesn't work for revolvers. This on top of the fact that most guns used in a crime are stolen anyway.

Stamping casings or bullets are bad for about the same reasons. Use a file and get off the stampings on the ammo. This will more than likely create a black market for un stamped ammo as well, and we've all seen how good a job the government does at "The war on drugs!". Also, who would keep the records? The dealers? Do you know how much ammo gets sold everyday? We sell thousands of rounds of ammo EVERYDAY! There would be no space to keep records if we had to keep them like the 4473 form. If someone were to buy 2000 rounds of ammo in 50 round boxes, there'd be 40 boxes of serialized ammo that we'd have to account for on one person alone, taking record of each individual box. We'd litteraly run out of space keeping all these records. It would be at least a 3 ring binder everyday.