There is a movement in the nation funded by liberals such as George Soros to increase the cost of ammunition. Efforts to ban guns have not been successful in most of the nation, so they current approach to eliminating weapons in the hands of private citizens is to ban ammunition. One approach to making ammo more expensive is to require each bullet to have a code etched in the base with a laser. Some states currently require an empty shell casing from each pistol to be filed so police can identify the owner of the gun that fired casings found at crime scenes. These efforts are futile in deterring crime for obvious reasons, so it is clear that the actual intent is to deter honest people. (Criminals use stolen info, or info obtained with fake IDs, and if they didn't do that, they could simply remove the bullet from the cartridge, cut off the base with the etched code, and put the bullet back into the cartridge. And, what do they do about hand loaders, who could cast their own bullets?) It is clear that the intent of the proposed legislation is something other than the deterrence of crime. Here is an article from the blog "Knowledge is Power:"

http://www.sondrak.com/index.php/weblog/from_the_dept_of_areyoupeopleoutofyourfreakinminds/