There's a lot of talk about how the federal government should get involved. The Preventing Auto Recycling Theft Act or the Part Act would require identification numbers to be etched on converters and establish stealing them as a federal offense. I think it's worth a try, but it's hard to prove that we've seen state laws achieve much so far.
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