{"id":53,"date":"2005-04-27T14:12:25","date_gmt":"2005-04-27T19:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=53"},"modified":"2005-05-11T01:29:40","modified_gmt":"2005-05-11T06:29:40","slug":"serial-numbers-on-bullets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"Serial numbers on bullets?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bill would require serial numbers on bullets<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dfw.com\/mld\/dfw\/news\/nation\/11496718.htm\">Star Telegram\/Associated Press<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SACRAMENTO, Calif. &#8211; A state Senate committee approved a proposal Tuesday to put a serial number on every handgun bullet made or sold in California.<\/p>\n<p>The measure cleared the Senate Public Safety Committee on a 4-2 vote over opposition from manufacturers, firearms dealers and sport shooters.<\/p>\n<p>The technology exists to laser-cut bullets with a number that police could use to trace who purchased bullets used in crimes, said Democratic sponsor Sen. Joseph Dunn.<\/p>\n<p>Purchasers would pay up to a half a cent per bullet to fund record-keeping by the state Department of Justice. Vendors would pay up to $50 a year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll solve a lot of crimes if this becomes law,&#8221; said Attorney General Bill Lockyer.<\/p>\n<p>If approved by the Legislature, the law would take effect in July 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill would require serial numbers on bullets Star Telegram\/Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. &#8211; A state Senate committee approved a proposal Tuesday to put a serial number on every handgun bullet made or sold in California. The measure cleared the Senate Public Safety Committee on a 4-2 vote over opposition from manufacturers, firearms dealers and sport [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}