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Mr Milk said..
This is not a new idea. I read it in a 2010 book by Geoffrey Miller "Must Have - the Hidden Instincts Behind Everything We Buy"
Slighly different. He wants a tax on bullets to cover the social harm from using them. His numbers were 30 000 gun deaths in the USA every year for 10 billion bullets sold. 3 deaths per million or 1/333 333 chance of any given bullet killing somebody.
If a life is worth $ 1 000 000 a bullet should cost $3.00, not 20c.
If it is $10 000 000 then bullets should be $30.00.
And that wouldn't cover non lethal harms.
May work, but there is a chance of black market for bullets.
In such case we need serial number for each bullet, tracking record, most likely block chain like, and a lot of effort to supervise the system.
At the end make using guns expensive for everybody else , beside those actually used to kill people.
Beside those $30 per bullet price possibly somehow make gun manufacturers even richer.
We want to make them poorer to the point , they will buncrupt and stop manufacturing guns at very end.
Then gun workshops will be required to retool and make something useful.