Sneaky Gun Control

Conservatives warned throughout the campaign cycle of Obama's intention to take aim at firearms, and we now see it starting to move forward:

[G]un owners in individual states are witnessing what's referred to as Ammunition Accountability Acts being pushed through they're state legislatures by impatient lawmakers.

[It would] mandate the engraving of a unique serial number on the base of each handgun and assault weapon bullet, and an identical number on the cartridge's case. The act calls for dealers of this encoded ammunition to record the purchaser's name, birth date, drivers license number, etc.

Ammunition Accountability, a liberal gun control organization, has developed sample legislation to achieve its purposes and reports that versions of it have been introduced in the legislatures of Alabama, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee and Washington.

While the 2nd Amendment is explicitly clear about Americans' right to own a gun, and while the Supreme Court confirmed that right last year, and while the American people overwhelmingly understand that right, liberals have found another, much more sneaky angle: crack down on the bullets.  The Constitution does not explicitly include ammunition in its wording, though it is obvious that the understanding is there:

"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."

The Second Amendment was adopted in an environment permeated by an emergent republican ideology founded upon the view that "To deny arms to some men while allowing them to others was an intolerable denial of freedom...". These ideas were coupled with many suggestions from multiple sources, which came most commonly from each state's bill of rights and the hundreds of amendments suggested by the state conventions that ratified the Constitution.

How much use is a gun if you don't have any bullets for it?  It's a useless chunk of metal, not even very good for throwing since it's so odd-shaped and un-aerodynamic.  So, why have a gun if you don't have any bullets?  This is not a hard concept to grasp.

Those of us on the right have been predicting this would come up soon for the Obama administration, and we were right.  Here's the worst part if this scam goes through:

"No later than January 1, 2011, all non-coded ammunition for the calibers listed in this act, whether owned by private citizens or retail outlets, shall be disposed."

So, even if you have stocked up on bullets before now (as millions have been doing), you can be prosecuted for owning that non-coded ammunition.  Legal battles will ensue on this, but keep in mind that the Founders intended and enshrined this guaranteed right for citizens to own their own weapons as the final and ultimate check and balance against a tyrannical government.

You know, like, a government that would try to nationalize private industries, silence dissent, and establish its own power for the indefinite future.

There's my two cents.