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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Target shooting at gun ranges is very popular in the U.S.
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That technicality shouldn't get in the way of this idea. Have cartridges that are stamped for shooting range use, sold only at shooting ranges, are taxed at a lower rate, and carry heavy fines if you're caught with them elsewhere. Require shooting ranges to buy back their unused cartridges (so if a customer uses only half of what they buy at the range, they aren't faced with the choice of bringing them home or losing them for nothing).
Combine that with widespread adoption of the microstamping technology already in use in California (firing pins are engraved with microscoping markings that are transferred to the cartridge), and you'd have a system where if authorities recover a shooting range cartridge somewhere outside a range, they could trace it back to the gun owner who used it.