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Posted on 05/30/2011 2:33:36 PM PDT by neverdem
| Micro-Stamping Legislation Passes New York Assembly |
| Thursday, May 26, 2011 |
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On Tuesday, May 24, Assembly Bill 1157 passed in the New York Assembly by a 84 to 55 vote. The bill has been delivered to the state Senate and will be considered in the Senate Codes Committee. Introduced by state Assemblyman Michelle Schimel (D-16), A1157 would require all current semi-automatic pistols in production and all newly designed semi-automatic pistols delivered to any licensed firearms dealer in New York to mechanically stamp an alpha-numeric or geometric code that would imprint the make, model and serial number onto the cartridge case when the gun is discharged. This bill would vastly increase the cost of these firearms and will likely result in firearms manufacturers not selling new handguns in New York. Of course, that is the ultimate goal of this legislation. A1157 would also require micro-stamping on all new semi-automatic pistols sold in New York after January 1, 2013 or whenever the State Police receive notification from one or more “micro-stamp job shops” that they can produce micro-stamp structures on two internal surfaces of a semi-automatic pistol for $12 or less, whichever occurs later. Gun control advocates know that micro-stamping is unproven technology, is easily circumvented, and will be very costly to gun owners. Desperate to pass a bill and create a loophole, this legislation would do nothing to safeguard gun owners from the costly, unproven gimmick we know as micro-stamping. Enemies of the Second Amendment are determined to pass New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's pet project at any cost. Please contact your state Senator and respectfully urge him or her to OPPOSE A1157. Contact information can be found here. |
And what if the casings “discovered” at that scene fail to match the lead in the victim?
Another idiotic, feel-good measure to disarm, frame, or otherwise infringe on the rights of the good guys.
Wouldn’t a metal file take care of the issue?
Unless everyone will have to register their metal files in NY next?
Oh man...I can’t wait until we have lasers.
>Yes, I think this will quickly prove useless in practice.<
But it will cost gun owners a fortune making it more financially difficult to keep a weapon. Which is it’s intent to begin with.
There’s a small problem. Revolvers don’t dump empty casings automatically.
NY already does this, and it has been a huge waste.
NY implemented the “ballistic fingerprint” requirement years ago: every handgun must be submitted for test-firing, analysis of ejected shells, and recording of what is, for all practical purposes, a unique “stamp”.
All this bill does is require the equivalent of tattoos where fingerprints were viable - and proven useless because both solve the wrong problem.
New Yorker’s keep voting over the past several decades for liberal Democrat politicians that create these laws.
62% of the population voted for Obama.
Democrats Kirsten E. Gillibrand and Charles E. Schumer easily won re-election.
Liberal Democrat Gov Cuomo won 62% of the vote almost doubling the number of votes of his nearest GOP challenger.
There is little doubt that Andrew Cuomo, the Governor of NY Cesspool, will sign the legislation if it hits his desk. When he had his first nepotism-delivered job as Sec. of HUD under the evil Xlinton regime of traitors he sued US gun makers (as the head of HUD) because the Huddies kept shooting each other.
This resulted in Smith & Wesson signing a consent decree to put intergal trigger locks into their guns. A "feature" much hated by the actual users of their products.
“62% of the population voted for Obama.”
Very sad, indeed. Please keep in mind that over 42% of the New York State population resides in NYC. Upstate is a whole different world.
Sure, you have conservative areas in rural areas of NY, but the bigger towns in upstate NY like Rochester, Syracuse, Buffalo, and the college towns all vote Democrat.
As they do in every state with a “college town” to include states like MT, ID, etc.
What exactly is your point?
New York is a hard core liberal Democrat state with a small minority of Republican voters.
Those who were part of the solution already left the state.
“Those who were part of the solution already left the state.”
Not all of us, my FRiend.
While the weak self-proclaimed ‘Conservatives’ flee like little scared bunnies, some of us choose to remain and fight the liberal establishment, following in the footsteps of true American Patriots.
We should be commended, not chastised.
New York is a hard core liberal Democrat state with a small minority of Republican voters.
That “small minority of Republican voters” sure do donate a lot of money to Free Republic! Please note that many are anonymous.
https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/scoreboard
Nobody can ever accuse politicians of being rocket scientists.
That's true in almost any state. And your point is?
Board brushing the entire state on the basis of some stupid politicians, isn't much brighter.
Who turned a lot of Upstate into a liberal's nightmare in the last election.
Those who were part of the solution already left the state.
No we haven't.....
Do you suppose that you could exhibit some intellectual honesty and use a more recent election results map? Or would that interfere too much with your smear all NYers agenda?
Here’s a 2010 House election map. There would be more red in Upstate but the North country vote got split because a conservative ran and tried to pull out before the election but couldn’t get his name off the ballot in time. He actually asked his supporters to vote for the Republican so the vote wouldn’t be split. So that huge blue chunk in the North Country is not representative of the political leanings of that area.
http://elections.nytimes.com/2010/results/house
Just got back home from town and happy to see you chimed in on this one. Had to buy some “Shoot-N-See” targets for sighting in my latest addition to my pistol collection. I love having my own range in my back yard!
You know, mom, I’m really getting tired of these no-nothings blasting our state. They just can’t seem to grasp the concept that our great state (except NYC, of course) is loaded with Conservative gun owners, hunters, trappers and genuine outdoorsmen. Too bad we’re outnumbered by the libs in the cities. We’ll just have to continue to take our stand and fight on them every front.
I personally do not know one single person that does not own at least 5 firearms. Mrs. panax and I both have full unrestricted concealed carry permits and we both carry wherever we go.
Hopefully, WaterBoard’s silence is due to him/her out in the garage looking for a narrower brush to paint NY with?
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