Microstamping?
can anyone say....Service Parts?
I buy a weapon that is microstamped firing pin, etc, . I buy it, and order service parts from a myriad of sources, before I take possession, and the day I get it home, I replace the firing pin, barrel and any other part that may be microstamped.
Emry cloth. What’s that Mr ATF? Gee, I guess the stampings must have worn down to the point of being unreadable. All that practice I do at the range you see.
Just polish everything up nice with a dremel tool. Just saying, mind you.
People who use stolen guns will just file tip of the firing pin. But of course it was never about solving crimes.
A similar argument was used against the crack-brained push for "Ballistic Fingerprinting" (BF). Despite all the evidence against it working, it was still pushed by all the anti-gun orgs.
I'd tangle with these idiots on the newspapers comments section. My boilerplate reply was that if they believed in BF, then surely they'd support "RF" (radial fingerprinting) - take tread impressions of all five tires of every new car and use that info in solving crimes.
Never got a reply. Maybe a few of them figured out that it wouldn't work for the same reasons that doomed BF.