As detailed in #55, all a cop has to do is see you in possession of a gun with the microstamp disabled, and he has an easy felony arrest to his credit. The cops will look for any opportunity to check your gun. If you are at the range, off-duty cops will check ejected brass. If you are involved in an act of self-defense at home, they take YOU away. Etc.
Let's say your wife decides to divorce you. All she has to do is to inform the police that you have tampered with the microstamping of your gun. Boom, you are under arrest for a felony, and not in a position to contest the divorce or child custody. She might even be the one who sanded down the microstamp, but try proving it.
>Boom, you are under arrest for a felony,
Personally, I think the “ex-felons can’t have firearms” is more a threat to liberty than this stupid bill.
There are just so many felonies these days that it boggles the mind, for example if you assert that the people have the right to overthrow the government then you could be charged with:
US CODE, TITLE 18, PART I, CHAPTER 115, § 2385 — Advocating overthrow of Government [ http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/usc_sec_18_00002385——000-.html ]
Oddly enough, however, the Declaration of Independence *IS* law, and it too asserts the right of the people to overthrow a corrupt government: [ http://uscode.house.gov/download/pls/organiclaws.txt ]
IIRC, Obamacare makes it a felony not to have “qualifying” health insurance, so I foresee *LARGE* numbers of people becoming felons in 2014 when it comes into effect; the evil genius of that is that people will be beholden to the bureaucrats possessing/processing their paperwork.