JohnRich 4 #26 October 9, 2004 QuoteReminds me of the tags that are added by the manufacturer to explosives which do help in an investigation by identifying the manufacturer, seller and sometimes the purchaser. Those are called "taggants": small plastic chips mixed in with the gunpowder, to identify what batch it came from, who manufactured it, and so on. This has also been proven worthless in crime-fighting. And there are a lot of problems with the technology, like messing up the predictability of the powder, actually creating a safety hazard to shooters and other users of explosives. The magazine "Chemical and Engineering News" has done a lot of detailed stories on micro-taggants, and the conclusions aren't in favor of it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
peacefuljeffrey 0 #27 October 9, 2004 QuoteWhat a waste of time and money. Steal a box of ammo and you are untraceable. Someone though this one through about as far as the tip of their nose. You mean, like every other nonsensical gun control scheme? This is an effort to make it so difficult to legally have and use guns that we won't want to, or be able to, anymore. That's what the gun-prohibitionists want. Like Ted Fathead Kennedy's "10,000% ammo tax." Gee, Ted, would you think it fair if we taxed shit that YOU want so as to prevent you from having it at a fair price? How about a 10,000,000% tax on whiskey, you piece of shit tyrant? -Jeffrey-Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
