"From my cold, dead hands"

I could kick myself. The NRA, Tom Gresham on Gun Talk and our local Richard gun guru, Richard DeChambeau from "Oregon Outdoors" radio talk show all warned last year already that there would soon be a shortage of ammo but I spaced out and, yesterday when we went to buy more ammo, found that only shotgun cartridges are readily available.

Of course the Democrats want to make it even harder to buy ammo since they know that gun control is not popular. Today my buddy Chas did a post, Where has all the ammo gone?

I'll bet there are some Democrats who want exploit the situation, by making ammo and ammo materials hard to obtain. If they can't take people's guns away, they will try to stop and/or control the ammo, with creepy things like "Encoded Ammunition" (Bullet and Cartridge Case Serialization).

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People would be required to forfeit all personally-owned non-encoded ammunition.

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People would be required to separately register every box of "encoded ammunition."

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The cost of ammunition would soar, for police and private citizens alike. The Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturing Institute estimates it would take three weeks to produce ammunition currently produced in a single day.

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A tax of five cents a round would be imposed on private citizens.

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No Bullets, No Shooting!.

In the last year, so-called “encoded” or “serialized” ammunition bills have been introduced in 13 states—Arizona, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Washington. Their goal: Destroy our Right to Keep and Bear Arms.

All of these bills would prohibit the manufacture and sale of ammunition, unless the bullets and cartridge cases are marked with a code and registered to the owners in a computerized database. Most would also require gun owners to forfeit any non-coded ammunition they possess.

I've never been to a demonstration in my life - not even the Tea Parties - but, if the Democrats pass the "encoded ammo" laws, I will be out there with my hand-made sign: "From my cold, dead hands."