Gun rights advocate questions Illinois ballistic imaging plan

If you haven’t seen it yet, The Center Square just dropped a must-read deep dive on the controversial ammo serialization bill currently floating around the Illinois General Assembly — the same bill a handful of radicals are aggressively pushing to ram through.

I sat down with Katrina Barker (formerly Peterson) and gave her the unfiltered background on where this thing really came from. Let’s just say… the conversation was pretty frank.

Here’s a teaser, from The Center Square:

Supporters say it could help link shell casings to firearms, while critics question its cost and effectiveness. Guns Save Life Executive Director John Boch argued the proposal is driven more by financial motives than public safety.

“This bill is an effort by a half-assed BS artist to get his patented bullet engraving system mandated into law so he can become a multimillionaire or a billionaire,” Boch said. “There’s no way this is feasible to come into existence, and this is a joke. The whole bill is a joke.”

Boch claimed similar proposals have been introduced repeatedly over the past decade and a half, tied to patented ammunition-marking technology that would imprint serial numbers onto bullets and casings.

“He owns the patent on the technology, and he stands to make out like Elon Musk if it were to be adopted into law,” Boch said. “He would get a payment, a portion of every round that’s created with his technology…”

Not brutal enough?  Try this:

“Criminals don’t give a flying you-know-what about the laws,” he said. “You think somebody’s willing to kill somebody and give a damn about another stupid gun law?”

Boch said he believes the bill has little chance of advancing.

“This is just a perennial thing,” he said. “They’re talking about it, but it has zero likelihood of passage into law. Zero likelihood.”

This one below is the prize.

Mayfield did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Center Square.

What’s Mayfield gonna say?  “Boch’s right”?