Posted on 02/22/2015 5:15:57 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Microstamping will make the revolver the murder weapon of choice.
Back in 1982, the voters of California REJECTED prop 15 to ban handguns in California.
Since that day, the politicians have been working overtime trying to find ways to get around the will of the VOTERS, one bite at a time.
Now they may have succeeded.
http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_15,_Handgun_Registration_Initiative_%281982%29
If they ever do get it to work, there are so many ways to misuse the law. For example, collect empties from anywhere and drop them after a crime.
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.
Just have one federal judge call it unconstitutional...
can’t we use the gay marriage plan for good?
I’ll bet the law, as written, applies to revolvers as well. Makes as much sense as rest of the law.
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.
This assumes that the gun used in the crime was legally purchased and registered properly. If it’s stolen (most street guns are), this info and tracking is worthless.
Just polish everything up nice with a dremel tool. Just saying, mind you.
They work better if you don’t have time to pick up evidence.
Maybe but revolver don’t leave brass at the scene, which is why many discerning criminals have always chosen them
Salt...
Back in 1982, I was one of those California voters who rejected Proposition 15.
But gosh, that could be illegal! Criminals will be sad knowing they aren't allowed to remove the microstamping, as they would never do anything illegal. No, crooks always obey the law.
People who use stolen guns will just file tip of the firing pin. But of course it was never about solving crimes.
Maryland has a law for over a decade that says each new handgun sale must be accompanied with a spent shell that’s then forwarded to the state police upon purchase. The theory is that a case can be used to ID the gun and, from that, the owner.
Not one single case for any gun crime in Maryland has been able to use that connection as evidence leading to a conviction. Not one single case. There have been several cases which led investigators to an original owner, but those owners had nothing to do with the 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.
That’s pretty stupid, I guess the pols in Maryland aren’t aware of the fact that firing pins change their primer imprint with enough usage. Or of course, the fact that one can just buy or make a new untraceable pin.
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