AZ/PA Ammo Coding Laws (aka Registration)

This was sent through the Veteran's for Paul meetup email, I thought I would share here.

Basically they are requiring manufacturers to uniquely label all boxes of ammo (each bullet & casing same as the box). Then the vendor will be required to keep records of all ammunition purchased with Date/Name/ID#/DOB.

Seems benign until an ATF agent comes to your door asking why you bought 10 boxes of 7.62x39 or 5 boxes of 45 acp. Or for those who like to look further in the future...If they know what ammo you're buying, they know what guns you have.

Anyone in the AZ meetup want to organize an effort to call on John McCain to speak his 2nd Amendment support by coming out against this bill? If he won't then it can be used against him, and if he does maybe it will help kill it?

THE BILL:

be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Title 41, chapter 12, article 5, Arizona Revised
Statutes, is amended by adding section 41-1772, to read:
START_STATUTE41-1772. Ammunition coding system database; sale of
ammunition; tax; fund; civil penalty; violation; classification;
definition
A. Beginning january 1, 2009, a manufacturer shall code all handgun and ASSAULT weapon AMMUNITION that is manufactured or sold in this state. This section applies to all calibers.
b. Beginning january 1, 2011, a private citizen or a retail vendor
shall dispose of all noncoded AMMUNITION that is owned or held by
the citizen or vendor.
c. The department shall establish and maintain an ammunition coding system database containing a manufacturer registry and a vendor registry.
D. A manufacturer shall:
1. Register with the department in a manner prescribed by the
department by rule.
2. Maintain records on the business premises for at least seven
years concerning all sales, loans and transfers of ammunition to,
from or within this state.
3. Encode ammunition provided for retail sale for regulated
firearms in a manner that the director establishes so that:
(a) The base of the bullet and the inside of the cartridge casing
of each round in a box of ammunition are coded with the same serial
number.
(b) Each serial number is engraved in such a manner that it is
highly likely to permit identification after ammunition discharge
and bullet impact.
(c) The outside of each box of ammunition is labeled with the name
of the manufacturer and the same serial number used on the cartridge casings and bases of bullets contained in the box.
4. Pay the tax levied by subsection I of this section.
E. A manufacturer shall not label ammunition contained in one
ammunition box with the same serial number as the ammunition
contained in another ammunition box that is produced by the same
manufacturer.
F. A vendor shall:
1. Register with the department in a manner prescribed by the
department by rule.
2. Record the following information in a format prescribed by the
department:
(a) The date of the transaction.
(b) The name of the purchaser.
(c) The purchaser's driver license number or other government
issued identification card number.
(d) The date of birth of the purchaser.
(e) the unique identifier of all handgun ammunition or bullets
transferred.
(f) All other information prescribed by the department.
3. Maintain records on the business premises for at least three
years after the date of the recorded purchase.
G. The department shall establish the ammunition coding system
database within the framework of any existing firearms databases.
H. Access to information in the ammunition coding system database
is reserved for law enforcement personnel. The department shall
only release information in connection with a criminal investigation.
I. A tax of one-half cent is levied on each bullet or round of
ammunition that is sold in this state. The department of revenue
shall collect the tax and deposit the tax, pursuant to sections 35-
146 and 35-147, in the coded ammunition fund established by
subsection J of this section.
J. The coded ammunition fund is established consisting of monies
deposited pursuant to subsection I of this section. The department
shall administer the fund. Subject to legislative appropriation,
monies in the fund shall be used for the purpose of establishing and
maintaining the ammunition coding system database prescribed by this section.
K. a manufacturer that fails to comply with this section is subject
to a civil penalty of not more than one THOUSAND dollars for the
first violation, not more than five thousand dollars for a second
violation and not more than ten thousand dollars for any subsequent violation.
L. a vendor who knowingly fails to comply with this section or who
knowingly falsifies the records REQUIRED to be kept by this section
is guilty of a class 3 misdemeanor.
M. a person who knowingly destroys, obliterates or otherwise
renders unreadable the coding REQUIRED by this section is guilty of a class 3 misdemeanor.
N. for the purposes of this section, "code or coded" means a unique
identifier that has been APPLIED by etching onto the base of a
bullet or ammunition projectile. END_STATUTE
Sec. 2. Requirements for enactment; two-thirds vote
Pursuant to article IX, section 22, Constitution of Arizona, this
act is effective only on the affirmative vote of at least two-thirds
of the members of each house of the legislature and is effective
immediately on the signature of the governor or, if the governor
vetoes this act, on the subsequent affirmative vote of at least
three-fourths of the members of each house of the legislature.
http://www.azleg.gov/FormatDocument.asp?
inDoc=/legtext/48leg/2r/bills/hb2833p.htm