Kudos to Gene for Nice Firing Line Column!

[oaklander]

Gene's column about microstamping is in the September issue of The Firing Line (CRPA). Great article!!!

My article about Cal-legal AK's and AR's will appear in the October issue.

Let's keep that content coming. . .

:)

[WokMaster1]

Gene's column about microstamping is in the September issue of The Firing Line (CRPA). Great article!!!

My article about Cal-legal AK's and AR's will appear in the October issue.

Let's keep that content coming. . .

:)

No link? This is just as bad as

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[du9207]

No link? This is just as bad as

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what he said

This is just as bad as
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[Vtec44]

linky?

[oaklander]

No linky - paper only. . . for now. . .

Join CRPA (http://www.crpa.org/dept.aspx?dept_id=01) to get it. . .

[Glock22Fan]

No linky - paper only. . . for now. . .


Of course, if you had joined CRPA already, you would have your own copy! Join now, you might not get anything until next month:43:

[bwiese]

Folks...

CRPA's The Firing Line reaches a huge population of CA gunnies and gunshops that aren't part of the online generation.

Calguns and CalNRA have accomplished a great deal in reaching the folks who have a significant online presence, and we need to carry our "de-FUD" activities to the paper world. If you have expertise that could be shared to this portion of the CA gunnie world, please step up. Furthermore, with additional editorial content, more advertising pages can be sold [there are laws/regulations governing nonprofit publication advertising rations].

[hoffmang]

How about a tease:


What is the real story: Microstamping

You may have read somewhere that there is some sort of restriction on handguns in California starting in 2010 that require them to be microstamped. I hope this to be the first of a series of columns here in the Firing Line that will help dispel confusion about the politics, judicial and legal environment for gun owners in California. In today’s episode, let’s explore microstamping.

First, microstamping is the concept of using semiconductor engraving techniques to place either protrusions on the firing pin, or a recessed engraving in the chamber of a semiautomatic handgun. The operation of the firing pin version is pretty intuitive and is just like using an address stamp, as the firing pin would leave identifying marks on the primer. The chamber version of microstamping has the identifying information in recessed engraving in the chamber so that the number is stamped into the brass casing as the spent brass expands after firing and before being extracted.

Microstamping’s chief proponent is an inventor named Todd Lizotte who, with his partner Orest Ohar, owns patents on the process that they kept certain rights to after they sold the semiconductor aspects of the technology to Hitachi. The concept is that microstamped shell casings will be left behind at crime scenes and will have the unique identifying information for the gun that fired them. It is left to the reader to think about the natural progress of criminals toward revolvers. Mr. Lizotte hopes to use public safety concerns to have state legislatures effectively grant him a monopoly both on the technology and on new firearms sales. Mr. Lizotte claims to be an NRA member and gun rights supporter but it seems to me that he’s putting personal profit ahead of his purported beliefs.
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The rest is in the Firing Line.

I'm going to be attempting to run these monthly for a while. I'm taking questions and insights that come up here on CGN and assuming that other less internet aware gun owners are asking similar questions.

-Gene

[ke6guj]

:dupe:
http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?t=221665
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I know, nobody bothers to look in the CRPA forum :D

[oaklander]

LOL

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http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?t=221665
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I know, nobody bothers to look in the CRPA forum :D

[SgtDinosaur]

I was very pleased to see Gene's name at the top of the article as I was flipping through the Firing Line. I expect he will raise the quality of the publication, although I have always read it anyway.

[Glock22Fan]

:dupe:
http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?t=221665
:dupe:

I know, nobody bothers to look in the CRPA forum :D

You mean this site has other forums??????

I don't usually have time to look beyond this one.

[nicki]

The reality is many gun owners are not online(even though they own computers) and paper publications are their source for gun related information.

Perhaps since we have a very diverse group of people on this site, we could create a pool of people who would be willing to write articles for the firing line on a host of issues.

Many of the posts I see here on this site are equal or even better than many of the articles written elsewhere.

Personally I would consider it a honor to have an article printed in the firing line of the CRPA.


Nicki

[xxdabroxx]

:dupe:
http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?t=221665
:dupe:

I know, nobody bothers to look in the CRPA forum :D

We have a CRPA forum? LOL

Now i will have to go repossess mine from my dads, where it is delivered, because there is actually something worth reading. Yes i am knocking the articles in TFL.

[MudCamper]

Could we get the full article posted here? My copy of the Firing Line ended up where most of them have the last several years. In the trash can at the post office. Yeah, I shouldn't do that. But it's an old habit, because the rag is always so so so far out of date by the time it arrives, compared to CalGuns.