The web site Ammunition Accountability apparently is administered by the lobbying firm of Ammunition Coding Systems, who ultimately pays for the site, and who conveniently produces the system that does this type of encoding. I just heard Russ Ford of ACS admitting to this on Cam Edwards’ show.
There’s a per round royalty their company plans to charge for this. Nothing like succeeding in the marketplace by having the .gov force your product on the consumer, whether they want it or not. Seriously, these guys are hoping to get state legislatures to basically pass a tax on ammunition that gets passed on to them.
UPDATE: Cam comments that the interview with Russ Ford will be re-aired on Thursday. You can tune in at NRANews.com. I would highly recommend folks tune in.
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February 19th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
I believe we’ll be replaying the Russ Ford interview on Thursday’s show and taking comments afterwards. When we finalize a time I’ll post it here.
February 19th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
Thursday, 10 p.m. Eastern at http://www.nranews.com. We’ll be taking calls and talkbacks afterwards as well.
February 20th, 2008 at 6:07 am
This would explain why they’ve hidden their domain behind a proxy. How cute.
Anyhow, I’m not quite sure it would be Constitutional anyway. Second Amendment aside, the whole scheme sounds like it would involve delegating the Congressional powers to tax to a private actor since the company would dictate pricing . To some extent, it might involve the power to legislate as well, being that the company would essentially be making law. Not to mention giving the company Executive powers to enforce said taxes and its own de facto law.
But, then again, nobody expected Kelo..
February 20th, 2008 at 6:37 am
Not sure it’s “taxing” anymore then musicians royalties are taxes…there’s probably something in the bill about that…I’d go so far as to say the bill that ACS handed over to whoever introduced it. It’s just another money making scheme….
As far as nranews goes…is there anyone who has that segment, I can’t watch that because the choice of delivery on the site is horrible.
February 20th, 2008 at 9:17 am
[...] A while back, a couple of bozos in TN were pushing legislation to serialize ammunition. Then, the lame idea started showing up in other states. Turns out, the push to do this is coming from the lobbying firm of Ammunition Coding Systems, who ultimately pays for the site, and who convenient… [...]
February 23rd, 2008 at 5:58 pm
Why is it every “crime control measure” impacts everyone but criminals?