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To: WayneS

Why replace the firing pin?


28 posted on 12/21/2016 12:05:42 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: Cobra64

There is no need to do so right now. But IF microstamping were implemented by a gun manufacturer, the only remotely feasible method currently available for placing a unique mark on a shell casing (or, more accurately, the primer)would be via micro-engraving of each individual firing pin.


29 posted on 12/21/2016 12:12:49 PM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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