This is the de-facto gutting of the Second that we have all feared. While we were snoozing through the "gun-show loophole" threats, this one was being prepared.
This law basically confiscates guns in place by introducing an "arsenal law" type of regulation that makes it impossible to have sufficient ammunition on hand with which to perform as a Militia.
Military action with firearms means having large quantities of ammunition, and since this law makes that impossible, any potential military use of firearms is prevented.
This is an attack on the Second Amendment, pure and simple.
It needs to be handled the same way a straight-up gun confiscation would be handled: total refusal to comply. They can't lock all of us up, and when they start trying to lock otherwise law-abiding people up for this, the rest of us will change the government.
We need to shout out loud now:
"The Second Amendment gives us the right to change the government by force when it becomes tyrannical"
Forget the NRA. Just shout it from our blogs, loud and clear, over and over.
That is the only way to give these tyrants pause. When they KNOW that a movement to throw their sorry asses out WILL form and WILL fight, they will back down.
As a USPSA blog, I'm most concerned that this targets especially folks who shoot a lot of ammunition. That includes competitive shooters more than hunters, for example.
Without going into the details, even if "encoded ammunition" fees and the related difficulties inherent in Manufacturer's attempts to provide ammunition at an affordable price are ignored; even if the implied requirement to dispose of 'noncoded' bullets are ignored; these bills (if they are enacted into laws) represent an 'end run' around the 2nd Amendment.
They are reminiscent of Daniel Patrick Moynihan's 1990-something attempts to impose a 1000% tax on ammunition; a means of making firearms ownership financially unfeasible because it becomes impossible to own sufficient ammunition to exercise the skills-sets necessary to be competent in live-fire gun-handling.
The scary part is not so much that we, who shoot a lot of ammunition in competition, are financially blocked from practicing our skill.
The scary part is that politicians, who for their own private reasons are constantly objecting to civilian firearms ownership because it involves the "possession of firearms by untrained owners", are consciously and deliberately interposing obstacles to the same training and practice which they suppose make Law Enforcement Officers so much more qualified to possess and use firearms.
Add Arizona to the list.
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