Microstamping is useless without a live and updated registry to record those microstamped numbers and pair them with a firearm and the owner of that firearm.
This is just an end run to justify that registry.
I can’t think of a single elected Republican in NY who is NOT a RINO. I still don’t think this will see the light of day in the state senate. It would be political suicide for any upstate politician.
Sounds like revolver sales are going to take a huge jump in New York.
The legislation exists only to harass gun owners and enrich purveyors of a dubious technology. Similar bills have been rebuffed all over the country.
Now smart criminals will use revolvers and seed the crime scene with spent shells from a gun range.
This idiot has made it easier to dodge an investigation.
Don’t even lose one piece of brass at the range, otherwise it could end up at a crime scene. What an asinine idea.
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What a bunch of maroons!
Will they make it a crime to pick up your stamped brass?
Here’s where the manufacturers need to step up to the plate. Take Glock for instance.
1. State publicly that they will not microstamp anything. They simply will not supply any firearms to NY residents OR to NY law enforcement or government agencies. Any weapons that have been microstamped by someone other than Glock instantly void any warranty rights. These weapons will never be touched by Glock or their distributors again.
2. Companies like Glock need to wake up and realize THEY are in the drivers seat. States like NY want their guns.
DON’T SELL TO THEM. Glock should tell their distributors no sales to NY LE or you are cut off. Then go to NYPD and other agencies and inform them they no longer offer any law enforcement sales programs. Then inform them any new law enforcement aquisitions from Glock will be done on a lease agreement with the Glock inc. That way Glock retains ownership of the guns and much greater power over the governments that are killing their business.
This isn’t anything radical. Computer companies, car companies and tons of businesses often lease to government agencies. It can also be much more profitable.
Ronnie Barrett pointed the way but other manufactures are still asleep at the wheel. When states pull this crap, CUT THEM OFF COMPLETELY.
The result, if passed - gun makers will simply stop selling product in New York State. Loss of associated revenue - sales tax, licensing fees, etc. - coupled with the cost of an entire new, and useless bureaucracy, will lead to higher taxes and increased taxpayer flight, with NO increase in crime solution, since criminals will use unstamped guns.
This measure is utterly and absolutely moronic. It is merely a ‘feel good’ bill sought by extremely addled and confused, misguided Utopianists.
Myself and a Dremel can remove a microstamping from the chamber of the weapon in just a few minutes. That would be a crime but the people that use weapons in crime, do not give a damn.
So use a revolver.
If this passes the NRA and other civil rights groups should take the state to federal court to stop it as an infringement on the federal power to regulate interstate commerce.
They can use Holder’s attack on AZ as a model.
I’ll be happy to testify in court against the law makers and designers of this technology when the first person gets hurt or worse, killed when this technology fails. Here’s why:
Microstamping technology puts a sharp edged imprint in either the bullet, cartridge case or primer. Being that it is a stamping, it requires the sharp edges to do the imprinting. Two things occur during this process. First is heat. The imprint edges will become very hot after several rounds are fired. This will lead to the gun “cooking off” rounds much faster than it should. Second, the sharp edges of the imprinting face will compromise the integrity of the case and/or primer. This can lead to a catastrophic failure of the gun injuring the person firing the gun, if not killing that person.
This feel good technology is very dangerous and irresponsible. When that first primer is pierced causing an injury, NY is going to be hating life with the justifiable lawsuits it’s going to get slapped with.
My company will not comply with these requirements which means that NY state won’t be eligible to purchase our products.
If We the People are unwilling to fight for our Rights, the sleezy self-serving corrupt politicians are all too happy to take them away - especially THIS one!
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.
Oh man...I can’t wait until we have lasers.