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Laser coded ammo
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Posted By:
Captain Al
Oct 15, 2004
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In the news today, a California politician wants to have all ammunition sold in that state to be coded with ID numbers. This is to track the users.
Forgetting all the political and practical problems asssociated with this idea, is the company offering this technology trying to pull a fast one on the taxpayers?
I've never seen a bullet pulled out of a wall or a person, but it's hard to believe any markings could survive. Here is the Seattle company's test results:
http://www.ammocoding.com/testingresults.php
Does anyone agree that the test scenario is valid? The home page also shows a sample of a marked bullet.
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Comments
Terry Austin
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Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 | 06:09 PM
Then need to do some research on how many illegal uses of guns use ammo stolen with the gun. Other than that, I think they're smoking dope on their success rate. |
Hairy Houdini
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Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 | 09:28 PM
ever see a photo of the "magic bullet" that was found on the stretcher with JKK-one? Seven entries in Jack and Connelly, and it was nearly undamaged. Too bad we didnt have laser-ID for bullets then...would be a different world...I know Arlen Specter of PA wouldn't still be in office, that's for sure
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Hairy Houdini
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Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 | 09:28 PM
I meant JFK-one...my bad |
Big Gary
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Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 | 02:37 AM
All bullets that have been fired have markings on them (made by the gun), which is how ballistics specialists can tell which gun a bullet came from (if they also have the gun for comparison).
I suppose is theoretically possible to put a unique number or other mark on each individual bullet, but I doubt that it would be worth the trouble-- and it would be a lot of trouble, not just marking the bullets, but keeping track of the serial numbers for all the many millions (billions? trillions?) of bullets sold each year. The system would need to be worldwide, and you'd have to keep all the records basically forever, since bullets used in shootings don't have to be new or recently purchased, and it would be very hard to have a system to report and verify each bullet that had already been fired. |
RMI Laser Division
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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 | 10:28 AM
Marking individual bullets is possible, but a major limitation comes about when you think of the vast volume of ammunition consumed worldwide. Laser marking can do this effectively, but using the most compact code available (2D code), the code would be too large for the bullet. The current limits of marking/reading technology allow for about 2kb of info per square inch. Visit http://www.rmico.com for further information. |
green laser pointer
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Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 | 10:29 PM
I think it is a totally wrong policy. |
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