Physics and Microstamping - mixed results

[Scarecrow Repair]

It will drive the price of handgun through the roof in California if this worthless law gets in.

NO it won't. They predict costs of $8 per firing pin the first year and $2 afterwards.

It does no good to misprepresent the opposition. There are any number of things wrong with it, pick any of them, but cost is not the problem.

[hoffmang]

Scarecrow,

$8 per firearm for the limited market of California and maybe one other state will discourage certain smaller manufacturers on the margin from selling into California. That's already on top of the magazine disconnect and drop testing.

For drop testing alone thats an extra $45 (I'm under the impression that it takes 5 samples to DOJ to get on the approved list.)

-Gene

[Richie Rich]

Sorry guys, I tend to jump the gun. (pun intended).

Just really passionate about my rights and sometimes I overreact a tad. Don't mean to add fuel to the fire.

Don't they have some real criminals to catch rather then bugging people who try really hard to conform to their laws?

Think of the money and time invested into microstamping and the billion or so better uses that they could have for it.

[spgk380]

Since when did Democrats ever let the laws of Economics, Physics or Mathematics stand in the way of the "truth", as Colbert would say...?

Liberalism is about feeling all warm and fluffy inside, like a Teddy Ruckspin, not about being educated or rational-minded.

[spgk380]

It is not supposed to work.

IMO, it is another step towards an outright firearms ban in the state.

Look at how the "safe handgun" laws work.

"Oh darn, you gun manufacturers can't get microstamping to work, guess you can't sell your product here in Ca"

Or someone will actually make it work, but it will make the cost of the firearm double that of a non microstamping model.

They just keep chip, chip, chipping away...

Yes, but think of how warm and fuzzy mothers will feel when the the guy who shot their baby with a deadly assault weapon leaves his digits