New bill bans pistol sales unless they can microstamp their bullets

guns.com ^ | Aug. 9, 2017 | Chris Eger

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Gun industry groups argue microstamping is unreliable, serves no safety purpose and is cost prohibitive. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra calls it “smart, effective, and constitutional.” (Photo: ucdavis.edu)

A dozen House Democrats are backing a measure mandating pistols sold by licensed dealers be capable of stamping a code on their ammunition at firing.

Introduced as the Make Identifiable Criminal Rounds Obvious (MICRO) Act last month, the proposal would strip the ability of federal firearms licensees to sell pistols that do not carry the controversial microstamping technology. Backers argue that as much as 40 percent of murders go unsolved due to lack of evidence, which the bill is meant to address.

“We must do everything we can to ensure gun violence can be investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” said the bill’s author, U.S. Rep. Anthony Brown, D-Md., in a statement. “Microstamping offers law enforcement the chance to track bullet casings to the source of the crime, and is one more step we can take to ensure the safety of the American people.”

Brown’s measure, entered as HR 3458, prohibits FFLs from manufacturing, selling, or transferring semi-auto handguns, unless they are capable of microstamping ammunition. Though California adopted a microstamping requirement as part of their 2007 unsafe handgun modification requirements, implementation was delayed until 2013 when California Attorney General Kamala Harris announced the technology had passed hurdles that kept it from being viable.

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Reading the reasoning for this proposed law will make you lose IQ points!(Or laugh your a$$ off)

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[dblshot]

Microstamping? We don’t need no stinking microstamping.

[Puppage]

Backers argue that as much as 40 percent of murders go unsolved due to lack of evidence

Haven't Maryland & NJ had micro stamping for the past several years with a total of ZERO crimes solved with this nonsense?

[b4its2late]

The MICRO Act has been referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary and has 12 sponsors, all Democrats.

Who'da guessed?

[T-Bird45]

Not microstamping - MD made manufacturers turn in a fired shell with each gun shipped to that state. During the entire time they’ve had the requirement, not one crime has been solved from the rounds turned in.

[Puppage]

See Post 4 :-)

[Puppage]

Got ya

[grobdriver]

Aftermarket firing pins, if a little sandpaper doesn’t take care of it.

[Davy Crocket]

Buy your ammo elsewhere.. Like Nevada, Arizona, Idaho... Reload at home.. Are they going to ban reloading?

[riverrunner]

They well ban any thing firearms related if they can and or could.

The goal isn’t reducing crime or catching criminals it is disarming the citizenship.

Government can not impose their total will against a armed populace.

[FreedomPoster]

Yeah, I was going to say, 5 min with some emery cloth and the firing pin/striker, and bye-bye microstamping.

[Garth Tater]

Make Identifiable Criminal Rounds Obvious (MICRO)

I think they put more time into coming up with a catchy name for this idiocy than they did thinking about why it wouldn't work. Firing pins break all the time and replacement pins cost about twenty bucks. Easy to change out too. So... change out the micro-stamping pin. Shoot the guy. Put the original pin back in. Might even put a little reasonable doubt in the minds of the jurors at your trial when they see that your micro-stamping gun couldn't have been the one that was used to kill the guy.

[PROCON]

Haven't Maryland & NJ had micro stamping for the past several years with a total of ZERO crimes solved with this nonsense?

You're forgetting about the liberal feel-good about themselves factor.

[NorthMountain]

The goal isn’t reducing crime or catching criminals it is disarming the citizenship.

That is the fundamental truth of the whole "gun control" issue.

[LouAvul]

Use a revolver and properly dispose of fired cases?

[Puppage]

You're forgetting about the liberal feel-good about themselves factor.

True dat.

[fungoking]

Microstamping illegal immigrants and gangbangers would solve more murders.

[Reno89519]

No interest in reading the details. What good is microstamping if it is not on the bullets themselves and what about the hundreds of millions of guns without it? And what would prevent someone from removing it anyway? Or, picking up their brass?

How about instead put life sentence or execution for anyone using a gun in a violent crime? And, a novel idea, enforce our laws, arm our lawful citizens?

[i_robot73]

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Haven’t Maryland & NJ had micro stamping for the past several years with a total of ZERO crimes solved with this nonsense?
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You don’t expect such ‘laws’ to be judged upon RESULTS, do you?? *PFFffftt*