re: #3 kirkspencer

re taggants, the experience of Switzerland shows the claim false.

No, it really doesn’t. The Swiss tag explosives, including blasting powders, but not smokeless or black powder propellants designed for reloading firearms.

While the small number of incidents using tagged versus untagged black powder may argue in favor of the effectiveness of taggants, only black powder used for blasting purposes is tagged in Switzerland. Black powder used for sport shooting is not tagged. Presumably, black powder used for sport would be easier to obtain than black powder used for blasting and may account for this discrepancy in numbers. In addition, the overall low number of incidents makes any generalizations about the effectiveness of taggants difficult. Despite the reported success of the taggant program in Switzerland, no other country has chosen to adopt taggants in its explosives industry.

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As noted earlier, black and smokeless powders designed for shooting applications are not tagged in Switzerland.

Try again.