Posted on 06/22/2012 3:48:39 AM PDT by marktwain
Gun grabbers need to be sneaky to accomplish their goals. Their latest trick is to convince anti-gun states to mandate that handguns be microstamp-ready. That means the weapon’s firing pin is redesigned to imprint a code on the primer so that, in theory, it will give law enforcement the ability to identify a specific gun from shell casings left at a crime scene. Like most left-wing endeavors, this one isn’t going to work.
That didn’t stop the New York State Assembly on Tuesday from passing a microstamping bill backed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. The legislation, which passed 85 to 60, specifically says guns manufactured in New York or delivered to a dealer after January 2014 have to produce a unique alpha-numeric marker on at least two locations of each spent cartridge that identifies the make, model and serial number. Fortunately, the state Senate blocked the bill on the last day of this session on Thursday, as it has done in four previous sessions.
Mr. Bloomberg and Mr. Cuomo don’t care about the negative impact of their proposal, which they estimate to be $12 per pistol. Manufacturers stuck with the actual duty of implementing the legislation put the cost at hundreds of dollars per gun. “We don’t know how to do microscopic etching. The equipment to do it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, and we would also need a scanning electron microscope to verify it’s on the pin,” said Jeff Reh, general counsel for Beretta USA. “We wouldn’t invest a half-million dollars to sell guns in one state.”
A spokesman for Remington Arms said if it had to add microstamping to all its pistols, it would “reconsider its relationship with New York and certainly the manufacturing of our handguns in the state.”
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***How long would it take any idiot with a file to destroy the micro-stamp.***
Idiots use files. Smart people use emery cloth or valve lapping compound.
Disassemble. Take the firing pin and spin the tip on a piece of fine emery cloth. Reassemble. Done.
Just use a revolver.
Pick up some various .45 brass from a range session or two. Then use a .45 revolver and throw out a handful of range
brass. That should keep em busy for a while...
Or just steal a gun and use it...
Or get a spare firing pin, do the crime, and then put the original firing pin back in. It wasn’t me...
These people are idiots
What makes you think they wouldn't just exempt themselves from the law, the same way they do with most other laws?
It’s not a matter of the law. It’s a matter of free enterprise; whether or not companies are willing to sell to them or not.
Gun companies should adopt a policy of not selling or servicing municipalities within gun hostile states that pass ridiculous laws that increase manufacturing costs and eliminate markets by making their products illegal.
When the withdrawal of gun makers from these markets actually started making things difficult for law enforcement to get the “tools” they think they need, they’d ask the legislatures to do something. And, it’s not like a government in NY can pass a law that a gun manufacturer in another state has to do business with them.
In other words, all gun manufacturers should give the Barrett treatment to those states who try to destroy their business: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/836082/posts
I’d be happy starting with NY, CA, and IL.
But it is important to remember, as with all gun laws, the purpose is not to stop crime, but to eliminate guns.
The object of gun control is never the criminal, my friends: it is you.
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