microstamping

[hundy]

Sorry to have to ask, but I honestly have no idea. Reading all the Cal 2A issues on this forum. I was reading about Ruger dropping all Auto hand guns off Cal list due to "mircostamping"
What is "microstamping"?
Would like to know, so I can understand more of the story. I know our state sucks and is dead last when it comes to 2A rights.
I am on the band wagon that supports 2A and that fights to change California current and pending gun laws. But I also want to make sure I know what I am fighting for.

Thanks

Jay

[hermosabeach]

http://bit.ly/1mflCkh

Lots of threads on this topic

A scammer came up with a technology that would add a serial # onto brass when fired. So at a crime scene, all of the cases would have a serial #.

Said Scammer then went about getting politicians to pass laws requiring this Micro Stamp to be added to all firearms. Once the laws would be passed, they would become rich from licensing out the invention.

Well CA passed a law saying that bay a certain date, all new pistols needed to stamp the serial number in two places onto a casing....

So maybe the tip of the firing pin could also have a serial # and the firing pin would act as Thor's hammer and hammer the serial # into the primer.

The other way would be to have some sort of stamp manufactured into the chamber so that the brass expanding during firing would add the serial number into the side of the brass.

The creator of the Micro Stamp technology ended up losing or giving up his patent on the technology and to my knowledge, no firearm nor prototype has ever been made that works....

[johnniezombie]

Supposed technology to laser etch the breech and firing pin. Purpose is to produce a unique identifying microstamped id on each casing that the firearm fires and ejects. Makes it easier for the cops to identify the firearm that's used in a crime by recovering the spent cases left behind

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearm_microstamping

[johnniezombie]

I think Hollywood did it in the first Judge Dredd movie

[Librarian]

Let's be more helpful, please.

http://wiki.calgunsfoundation.org/The_Safe_Handgun_List

The legal bit was 2007's AB 1471 - http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/fa...arch_keywords=

And, since we have some threads over in both Activism/Politics and Litigation on this, closed.
[Summary of those: yes, it's easily defeated, so no, it has no use in law enforcement; it's certainly about making handguns less available.]