I agree with ToddW....
Someone who is "concerned" about gun safety invented a new process that would "effectivley" track fired casings and/or recovered bullets to the purchaser. By the article statement alone the cost to the consumer would be a dollar for a box of 20, pretty much standard for rifle rounds. And 2.50 for a box of 50 pistol cartriges. That's for maintaining the data bases alone! This doesn't include the labor and machine set up or outsourcing to have the bullets encoded. It will pretty much "kill" all ammunition imports, unless foriegn ammo makers are willing to comply and will utterly destroy the hand reloading industry.
Not a good idea at all, financially for the firearms market. Also, seeing as how statisticlly most crimes commited with a firarm are stolen, the chances of the ammo for said firearm will be too.....
SNAFU just waiting to happen.

-Bill Liptak