Posted on 06/19/2012 3:44:38 PM PDT by aimhigh
Following on the heels of a front-page New York Times article on microstamping, New Yorkers Against Gun Violence today called attention to a new peer-reviewed, independent expert study on microstamping confirming the technology works and that it is an important tool for law enforcement to solve violent gun crimes.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
From the report: "For example, the criminal can always remove firing pins, alter scratch patterns by the use of abrasive polishing media, etc. Steps can be taken to minimize the effect of such alterations by use of microstamping in several places but such possibilities cannot be prevented entirely and will always exist. These considerations are not the topic of this discussion. In other words, microstamping can easily be defeated.
Just use a revolver, then throw a whole bunch of other shell casings around that you obtained from the local public range and watch the wacky, wild goose chase hilarity ensue.
Leftist dreams are so easily quashed.
Some place, maybe Canada but I am not sure, already tried it and despite spending millions, never solved a single crime.
Let all police departments test it out for a few decades, then tell us about it.
I bet the “peer review” was done by the same people who did the (incestuous) “peer review” in the MMGW scandals.
The very expression “peer review” has been deeply damaged by such people, and no longer passes muster just on its own, but must be backed up with references.
Importantly, many on the left now have the bizarre notion that they can dictate technological advances, such as demanding energy efficiency beyond current technologies.
Whatever ‘important tools’ might be available to the police, they are too busy with too many other unimportant duties to deal with the problem.
Get robbed? Burgled? What do the police say? Nothing We Can Do, Aren’t You Insured, etc.
Spare a thought for the man killed with a microstamped cartridge while you’re sitting in an East German style police checkpoint and its abysmal arrest rate.
“it is an important tool for law enforcement to solve violent gun crimes.”
You know what else would be an important tool? Just putting ankle bracelet transponders on all of us, so the government knows where we are at all times. Or we could just lock up everyone except for the cops and politicians. /s
Try to visit the local ranges just after a bunch of law-enforcement types finish shooting - add that twist to the forensic fun!
How about the consideration of just how physically dangerous this type of crap is? Putting sharp cornered indentations in a primer or cartridge case is courting a ruptured case, blown out primer, etc. That can lead to a physical break down of parts of the gun and eventually injury or death of the shooter.
As a manufacturer of firearms, I will NEVER put microstamping technology in any firearm I build. EVER. I’m not that stupid and I’m not going to put myself in a situation where I endanger someones life like that.
Any technology that can be defeated by a finger nail file isn’t useful technology.
It seems to me that once the bullet separates from the shell you no longer really have a relationship between the two. How do you prove the bullet came from that shell casing?
“...then throw a whole bunch of other shell casings around...”
preferrably of multiple, different calibers....
Can you imagine the small fraction of FReepers, who’ve fired in anger/defense, in a non-LEO, non-Military environment?
BUT! A gang banger might catch on to the practice quickly!
“Just use a revolver, then throw a whole bunch of other shell casings around that you obtained from the local public range and watch the wacky, wild goose chase hilarity ensue.”
Yea, it will be hilarious when the cops break down the doors of innocent citizens. Also, criminals don’t get and register their guns. They steal them or buy them off the street or from straw purchasers.
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