--- title: How Regulating Bullets Could Help Solve Gun Control description: Regulating bullets instead of guns, hydrogen fuel cells to charge your phone, North Korea's detonation and more. canonical: https://time.com/4170920/regulating-bullets-gun-control/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-07T17:01:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:00:39.273Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How Regulating Bullets Could Help Solve Gun Control og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4170920/regulating-bullets-gun-control/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How Regulating Bullets Could Help Solve Gun Control twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How Regulating Bullets Could Help Solve Gun Control by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 7, 2016 5:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 7, 2016 5:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Gun control might be a political non-starter. Could we regulate bullets instead?**](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/we-should-regulate-bullets/2016/01/06/62de9322-b3dc-11e5-a76a-0b5145e8679a%5Fstory.html) By Ann Brown in the Washington Post **2\.** [**Worried about charging your smartphone on your next trip? Bring a deck of hydrogen fuel cells.**](http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/6/10726614/myfc-jaq-hydrogen-fuel-cell-charger-ces-2016) By Nick Statt in the Verge **3\.** [**If that detonation in North Korea wasn’t an H-bomb, what was it?**](http://warisboring.com/articles/if-north-korea-didnt-detonate-a-hydrogen-bomb-then-what-was-it/) By Robert Beckhusen in War is Boring **4\.** [**Could we bring back paper clothing?**](https://magazine.good.is/features/issue-35-who-killed-paper-clothing) By Allen Salkin in Good **5\.** [**The Sharing Economy is bigger than you imagined.**](http://time.com/4169532/sharing-economy-poll/) By Katy Steinmetz in Time  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4170920/regulating-bullets-gun-control/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4170920/regulating-bullets-gun-control/"},"headline":"How Regulating Bullets Could Help Solve Gun Control","datePublished":"2016-01-07T17:01:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:39.273Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4170920/regulating-bullets-gun-control/","keywords":["Innovation","North Korea","Guns","sharing economy"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4170920/regulating-bullets-gun-control/","name":"How Regulating Bullets Could Help Solve Gun Control"}}]}] ```