House Bill 1260
DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILLEncoded ammunition. Requires ammunition manufacturers to encode all ammunition: (1) provided for retail sale in Indiana; and (2) used in handguns and assault weapons; by July 1, 2009. Prohibits a person from selling ammunition at retail after June 30, 2009, unless the ammunition has been encoded by a manufacturer. Requires the superintendent of the state police department to establish and maintain an encoded ammunition data base before July 1, 2009. Requires ammunition manufacturers and persons who sell ammunition at retail to provide certain information concerning encoded ammunition sales and persons who purchase encoded ammunition to the superintendent for inclusion in the data base. Imposes a fee of $0.05 per round on the sale of encoded ammunition that is sold at retail. Requires the fees to be deposited in the encoded ammunition data base fund to operate the data base. Requires a person who owns ammunition for a handgun or assault weapon that is not encoded ammunition to dispose of the ammunition before July 1, 2011. Makes an appropriation.
Current Status:
In Committee – first House
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Anything in there forbid you from trading your ammo for other encoded ammo?
I can see a club forming, like those ones for supermarket discount cards, where you send your “encoded” ammo and get a like amount back in “randomly encoded” ammo.
As soon as you can make that “encoding” worthless, the whole thing withers and dies. Such an operation is best run from outside Indiana borders, so it becomes interstate commerce, and outside the jurisdiction of Indiana law.
c:)
Screw’em… I load my own. If they want to confiscate it I’ll deliver it to them one round at a time
Rather old ‘news’ as this was something ‘Brain-dead Bill’ Crawford came up with a year ago. It never made it out of committee, but I don’t think it’s completely dead yet. Evidently there are still enough clear minds to deal with Bill’s brain farts before they see the light of day.
I like the ‘trading’ idea. Hadn’t occurred to me, but it’s a great idea. No, there’s nothing in the bill about that. Nothing about buying out of state, either.
T’will never pass.
1) Too many blue dogs in the House.
2) Democrats know that it will cost them seats.
@john howard: well, you can buy ammo from out of state, but the “possession” clause would instantly apply if it wasn’t “encoded” when you received it.
Of course, it could always be “encoded” out of state and the “master information” not retained (since there’s no requirement on out of state vendors to keep or maintain that information).
So you could set up shop in a “free” state, encode the ammo, sell encoded ammo, and then destroy the records of said encoding, all within the limits of the bill above.
Geez, and here I am, a throwback to the GOOD OLD DAYS…when one could “personally encode” their ammunition (like writing on a 500 lb bomb: “Greetings from the USA, Saddam”…)
Seems we were ahead of that curve as well.
(time to scratch initials in my munitions…I got yer encoding…right HERE)
I like Jon’s idea – load your own!
(shik-shik….BOOM)
And this will stop the killings how?
lee harvey capped JFK with a legally purchased, legally licensed/ whatever obsolete military surplus bolt action “hunting rifle” make up your own elmer fudd be vewwy quiet” line.
world war one was started by a sebian anarchist with an unlicense pistol
assault weapons bans are protectionism for domestic overpriced gun makers.
which makes affordable, cheap rifles, and pistols inaccessable/cost prohibitive for black inner city residents who may live in crime infested areas, and whos wives, daughters, girlfriends may need a firearm the most.
so is the brady center actually a racist front organization which wants to disarm any non white, non rich, non suburban dwelling citizen, by pricing the poor inner city minority american out of the market, leaving their families and friend at the prey of gangs?
so does the brady center = KKK? think about it…Im not saying, just using deductive reasoning, and logic to draw a possible conclusion.
Roach;
I don’t think that’s necesarrily their intention. I really think those groups believe that by making guns illegal or harder to purchase they will be helping all law abiding persons, even those in the inner city.
But once you live here a while, and you realize how ineffective law enforcement is here, it becomes clear that a person can only take the steps necessary to protect themselves in one of two ways. They can purchase a gun legally, mind their own business, and look out for their own families. Or, they can acquire group coverage by joining one of the criminal gangs that are flush with illegal weapons.
You are absolutely correct that many of the gun restrictions being pushed would limit the second option. And since those laws will do very little to lessen the strength of the criminal gangs, the gangs will them become a relatively better option for people who live in the inner-city. It’s not by design, it’s by ignorance.