Fuck if I know, or care. It wouldn’t bother me one iota if they put taggants in all powder, laser engraved every bullet, whatever makes them happy. I’ll likely never buy another round of ammunition, shoot another round of ammunition, any of it.
This whole ruse of taggants is just smoke and mirrors until they can get around to some “meaningful” bans. Gunpowder/blackpowder is just the bogey man de jour, how many terrorists actually use these devices?
My dad used to be a competitive trap shooter. I’ve been around reloading/smokeless powder since I was very young. One of my mom’s stories was how she got tired of vacuuming up shot that she told us kids she’d pay us a penny a BB for every one we found. We hit her up for a few dollars each, this in the late '60s. Then my dad moved his reloading to the garage.
In all this time, I’ve been around numerous kegs of powder, Hercules Red Dot. I’ve never made a bomb. I still have my dad’s shotguns, he never shot anybody with them, I’ve never shot anybody with them. I still have shotgun shells that I loaded way back then, they’ve never shot anybody.
But me possessing these thing terrifies some of the posters in this thread.
This whole ruse of opposing taggants is just smoke and mirrors until they can finally get rid of any and all regulation of any kind on anything remotely related to firearms, because Freedom! Second Amendment! Cold dead hands!
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I want to know so I can address your specific scenario/objection. So what is it?
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You have no clue about my position on guns, the second amendment, or Pavlov’s dog for that matter. If you think you do, I’m sure you could source some choice posts by me on those matters. I’ve been here long enough.
Curveball? Yes, I suppose it’s gotten to that point. People often seem to temper their internet conversations in a way that they would never do if both parties were within arms reach of each other. Over an extended period of time, it effects us all and we begin to expect the worst from others. You and I should feel proud that we saw no need to resort to childish insults to avoid answering simple questions.
You made a valid point. I responded to what you actually wrote (vituperativeness be damned ).
You’re the one proposing something - adding taggants to blackpowder. I just want you to clarify if you want to add it to all blackpowder, or just the subset that will be used in bullet casings. This really isn’t tough…
The fuck you talking about? Reply honestly? I have. I’m not exactly sure what you are looking for. I want to address your specific scenario. So answer the question, I don’t know, please?
WILLIAM KERNS: From our standpoint, you know, it’s technology that we have and we make. And it has a function, and we know that it works in explosives.*
So the guy who makes and sells taggants for a living believes that taggants are a good idea. Not really much of a surprise.
Is his taggant system easy to defeat? Do his taggants make black powder unstable, inaccurate, dangerous? Do those concerns matter to NPR?
The bombers were ID’d without Kerns taggants. How is that even possible? :smack:
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