Something I have been thinking of and I must share but is It possible that the ammunition sold at gun shows and stores being Radio Frequency or similar type of tracking chip.

Someone I work with told me that at the last gun show he was at that they where selling rare types of ammo that is hard to find in large calibers >=.223 it made me think why would they do this? Why would armor piercing rounds and incindiarie rounds show up at a gun show for civilian purpose?

My first thought was it's chipped so that when needed they can find ammo cache's.

And if they would do that what would keep manufacturers from chipping plastic/composite parts on guns!?

It is VERY POSSIBLE!

Interesting. I never thought of that myself. Certainly possible. Isnt RFID chips like insanely small, not powerful but small. Enough that if you were scanning for it(ammo cache), you might be able to find it because there are lots of ammo clumped together, therefore creating a larger "ping". Not really sure what im talking about, but sounds plausible.

I dont own a gun (Canadian here) but certainly been thinking about it lately.

Yeah theres some information out there on this topic if you do some searching. Apparently around 2003 there was a push for smart guns and rfid'ing all bullets to fire through a smart gun but as you see the gun never manifested but the bullet idea did.

Is there a simple device that can tell you if a RFID chip is near by or not? Just a device the beeps if a RFID chip gets lets say when in a 5 feet of it so you could swip things thay you think may be chiped so you could locate and remove or distory the RFID chip or at the very least be aware that is is there?

Reminds me of Metal gear solid 4, where everyone who owns a gun is injected with nano machines, and they can only activate guns that the nanites allow them too. All the nano machines are controlled by a central AI.

Who says video games can't show interesting reflections on what reality can be.

The case would get to hot.
Would cook the electronics.
But they could chip a gun.

The chips main purpose would be for finding a cache of ammunition not tracking a fired bullet.

Im talking confiscation of weapons and guns scenarios.

I was also thinking that too - the bullet casing would likely stop RFID from working. Or just microwave them first

Don't microwave ammo that would be a very dangerous thing to do.

a unloaded gun would not be dangerous if exposed to microwave energy.

I do think however, weapons could be, but if you are cleaning them well, wouldn't you find the RFID chip in the process....

AR15s have a foam filled plastic stock and that would be a good place to hide a chip.. a small hole drilled into a wood stock and filled with wood fillers. would also hide one.
But if when you stored your guns you wrapped them in foil this would block the signals

If you store your ammo in a military ammo can it will act as a Faraday cage.
and many people store there's that way

Put them in military weapons no way.
All a enemy would have to do is build a land mine with a RFID reader in it and our troops would be toast.
what was the author of the article thinking



[edit on 24-3-2009 by ANNED]

[edit on 24-3-2009 by ANNED]

Yeah there is also a story I can't get a link on about us military Snipers using rfid'd .50 bmg bullets.

Wouldn't placing a chip in a strong magnetic field for a short time render it useless?


Bulk tape erasers anyone?

If you somehow managed to employ RFID Technology onto/into Firearms Ammunition, I fail to see how it would be of any use, or functional for that matter, after you fired the aforementioned Round.

Originally posted by TheAgentNineteen
If you somehow managed to employ RFID Technology onto/into Firearms Ammunition, I fail to see how it would be of any use, or functional for that matter, after you fired the aforementioned Round.

That is not the point. If they pick up 10,000 RFID tags at the same place they know that some one has 10,000 rounds of ammunition stocked piled. All they would have to do to get this info would be to drive up and down the street. Now you say all that driving would cost a ton. Well how many people come to your house on a regular bases? The Mail truck? The power meter reader? The water meter reader? Trash pick up? Pick a RFID reader with GPS in one of them and they could tag every house at very little cost. Forget the tin foil hat, maybe it is time to wrap your ammo in tin foil.

Originally posted by fixer1967

Originally posted by TheAgentNineteen
If you somehow managed to employ RFID Technology onto/into Firearms Ammunition, I fail to see how it would be of any use, or functional for that matter, after you fired the aforementioned Round.

That is not the point. If they pick up 10,000 RFID tags at the same place they know that some one has 10,000 rounds of ammunition stocked piled. All they would have to do to get this info would be to drive up and down the street. Now you say all that driving would cost a ton. Well how many people come to your house on a regular bases? The Mail truck? The power meter reader? The water meter reader? Trash pick up? Pick a RFID reader with GPS in one of them and they could tag every house at very little cost. Forget the tin foil hat, maybe it is time to wrap your ammo in tin foil.

Yup! And all they would need is one bullet to be "chipped" in your ammo cache then when the time comes for confiscation or post confiscation they will find hidden stockpiles and send ya to a FEMA CAMP haha

[edit on 3/25/2009 by Chaos Lord]

I Personally have considered having my guns chipped, as I had an SKS stolen from my house. It would be handy to know where it ended up...

Of course, I wouldn't have all of them chipped, but having guns stolen sucks.