The rumor returns
BobJudy
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Judy was helping with a sporting clays shoot at our club today and when she got home, she asked if I had heard the news? According to several shooters the ammo companies were going to make all of their ammo expire and become inert after a year. She politely asked how they could accomplish this and no one had an answer. Never mind the fact that the manufacturers have no control of how long the ammo is in the retail pipeline, or that they would be deluged with liability suits when a LEO or home invasion victim gets killed because his ammo won't work. Even the fact that they can't make enough to meet demand now let alone that they could never make enough to constantly replace expired ammo won't change rumor believers minds.
This rumor first appeared during Clintons years, took a few years off, reappeared during Obama's reign, took a few years off and is back for Biden's term. Hmmm..... I think I see a pattern. But hey, they saw it on the internet so it must be true. Bob
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The BS flows freely a lot of times.
Rumors flourish because of poor communication.
No one can trust bias partisan media. It is up to the individual himself has to distinguish what is real and what is the truth.
An unusual number of shotgun shooters are brain dead liberals so Im not surprised they would buy into something like this.
They are the “I support the 2ND Amendment BUT…” crowd.
omg the sky is falling
Biden is pushing the ATF and the Calif DOJ to complete work on serial numbered ammo. When the Kameltoe was the Calif AG, she wanted this in a bad way. I've said it a hundred times before, Calif is the demofacist test bed. They make it work here, then gift it to your state. With the help of a good judge and a lawsuit, we already shot this down once, and thought it was buried. This is one zombie that needs a head shot.
Friend of mine is a gun guy, and an engineer that does a lot of consulting. He got a call to come and look at something for the state to see if he could solve a production problem. Typical engineer, he was focused on the problem, and not the product, until the light bulb came on being familiar with guns. He played the anti-gun liberal and got the project manager to run his mouth.
They are working on a requirement for the bolt face to stamp a micro bar code on the brass. That bar code will be in a database, that tells the serial number, and the owner of that gun. If you deface that stamp, or swap the bolt for one that doesn't have it, it's the same as grinding off a serial number. We both had the same scenario question.
I pick up your serial numbered brass, reload it, and shoot someone with my gun that doesn't have the ID stamper, how will they know it isn't you? When he asked, he only got a partial answer before they were interrupted. Most of what he got, it was just to make guns more expensive, and more restrictions, like if it doesn't have this feature, you can't buy a gun without it.
As a service to my fellow members, in order to prevent legal action against you just ship all your ammo over one year old to me. I'll see that it is properly disposed.
In the middle 1990s they wanted ammo manufacturers to make their ammo that would not be any good after a certain date, all the manufacturers agreed it would be a liability on their part if something were to happen, and that there was no guarantee pressures would remain safe after a certain date. How they will hurt the ammo manufacturers is by taxing ammo users to were it will be come a rich mans sport.