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krispos42

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7. I see a good market for spent brass
Mon Sep 5, 2016, 11:03 PM
Sep 2016

Drop a handful of miscellaneous caliber-appropriate casings randomly picked up from a shooting range at your next gangland murder, let the police tie themselves into knots chasing everybody down.

I think the real issue is that they have no idea what mass production of ammunition looks like. I also think they don't care, or actually want, the vast spending increase in machinery and tracking (and the subsequent slowdown of the production lines) and the bureaucratic snafus and understaffing, a la voter ID laws and the subsequent shutting down of ID-issuance centers.

Thousands of rounds PER SECOND are manufactured, on average, every day. Probably tens of thousands.

Not to mention the plausible deniability built into the system. I'm buying a box of ammo. The manufacturer SAYS that code "X" is inscribed on the inside of every single bullet and every single casing in the box.

I have no way to verify this without opening the box and ripping open every round of ammo and looking at it under a 10x microscope with a good light source. For all I know the code is wrong or the code is missing.



All you can prove is that I bought a box of ammo with both a UPC and a box ID barcode on it. Whether the ammo matches the box is anybody's guess.

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