Yeah, but revolvers don't look as sinister when held "gansta"...
Posted on 12/21/2016 10:31:25 AM PST by Mechanicos
From AP — Gun manufacturers have the right to present evidence supporting their claim that technology does not exist to comply with a California law requiring new models of semi-automatic handguns to stamp identifying information on bullet casings, a state appeals court said Thursday.
The ruling by the 5th District Court of Appeals in Fresno overturned a lower court ruling rejecting a lawsuit by two firearms trade associations that challenged the law.
(Excerpt) Read more at reloadone.com ...
http://reloadone.com/federal-appeals-court-in-fresno-overturns-bullet-stamp-ruling/
Those idiots in CA have never heard of revolvers?
There are hundreds of millions of firearms not microstamped, and the last time I checked, criminals use stolen weapons, so all it would do is send the cops back to the poor gun owner that had his/her weapon stolen in the first place.
Microstamping is legislation being pushed to enrich antigun liberals, who are in on the ground floor of corruption at the federal to corporate level.
What does a revolver have to do with it?
Does any really good news come out of California anymore? This sounds like a win but only to a really bad lose to start with.
California has felt like another country for some time now and I know we have a lot of good Freepers living behind the enemy lines of the border of CA but geez if it goes any further left it really will fall off into the ocean.
At least the communist secessionists now have an embassy in, wait for it, Moscow... eliminating any pretense of them being in any way American Constitutionalists.
It leaves no brass laying around fro the police to retrieve?
Since the firing pin never contacts the bullet it sounds ridiculous from a legal aspect.
The firing pin contacts the primer. This law sounds about a plausible as ObamaCare.
The story confuses "bullet" (the projectile), "case" (the brass cylinder containing the powder, primer, and projectile), and "cartridge" (which generally refers to a complete loaded round of ammunition, unfired).
You can't really microstamp a bullet because (a) it never contacts the firing pin; and (b) it is generally badly damaged upon impact.
Never mind that any microstamp will be quickly eroded by friction, and that replacing a firing pin is a matter of minutes with the proper tools.
Shell casings aren’t left on the scene from a revolver so the, mircoprint BS evidence wouldn’t exist because the perpetrator would walk away with it unless they reloaded.
That is a good point is some cases. Everytime I get in a firefight I keep leaving brass all over the place. I guess I’ll need to be a little neater. /h/
I am just guessing what he meant.
Even if this were possible, how does a prosecutor prove the shell casings found at the crime scene weren’t planted? Are you going to be able to retrieve every piece of brass every time you go to the range? Miss just one and it could fall into the wrong hands.
Not to mention that it is not at all difficult to replace a firing pin.
Always police your brass...
;-)
service parts....
or even a piece of sandpaper or file and your micro-stamp is gone.
Nice way to frame someone for Murder.
The purpose of micro-stamping laws has nothing to do with crime solving. It is intended solely to infringe 2A rights by cutting down the number of new firearms available to citizens. If CA’s current law stands, they will have guaranteed that no new semi-auto’s will see CA markets.
The cases are not ejected to be found at the crime scene.
There have been suggestions in the past that each bullet needs to have a serial number or lot number etched on its base at the factory.
Yeah, but revolvers don't look as sinister when held "gansta"...
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