CT Micro-Stamping Bill Will Ban Handguns

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Attention Connecticut handgun owners! We need to knock this bill out -

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Micro-Stamping" Bill Scheduled for a Hearing on Monday, March 16!

Please Stand-Up and Make Your Voice Heard!

On Monday, March 16, the Joint Committee on Judiciary will hold a public hearing on Senate Bill 353, a bill sponsored by State Senator Martin M. Looney (D-11) that would ban the sale of all semi-automatic pistols not equipped with so-called "micro-stamping" technology.

Micro-stamping is an unproven technology that would require unique identifying information from the firearm, including the make, model, and serial number to be etched into the firing pin and breech face in such a manner that those identifiers are imprinted on the cartridge case upon firing. The technology can easily be defeated with common household tools, has no public safety value, and adds substantially to the cost of the firearm.

If SB 353 is passed, it will become ILLEGAL to sell or transfer any semi-automatic pistol that is not capable of micro-stamping. This would mean that any semi-auto handgun that you currently own could never be sold or transferred in Connecticut. This would ban the sale of used semi-auto handguns without the technology and would prohibit estates from bequeathing semi-auto handguns that do not include micro-stamping technology.

Since no manufacturers currently incorporate micro-stamping in their firearms, this bill would result in a de facto ban on all semi-automatic handguns in Connecticut.

The hearing will be held on Monday, March 16 at 10:00 A.M. in Room 2C of the Legislative Office Building (LOB) in Hartford and it is important that Connecticut gun owners attend this hearing. We encourage all of our members to attend this meeting and voice your opposition to SB353. If you would like to testify before the committee, you must submit 45 copies of your written/typed testimony to the Judiciary Committee staff in Room 2500 at least two hours prior to the start of the hearing.

This bill must be defeated! If you are unable to attend the hearing, please contact the members of the Joint Judiciary Committee TODAY and respectfully urge them to defend our Second Amendment rights by opposing SB353.
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This came from the NRA-ILA Alerts

(Mods, if this has been posted already, please merge it with other threads - thanks!)
 
You all get together pool your pennies, sue the State then strike another blow for the 2nd.

It seems pretty clear that this is more than a "reasonable" restriction in that, since microstamped firearms are not available, this is a De Facto ban.

Actually, the whole idea is going nowhere but the more noise CT gun owners make the sooner this idea will end up in that happy location.
 
Send my emails yesterday. Most of shooting buds have called or emailed the Judiciary committee members. I'm calling them Monday morning first thing. I don't think this will get out of committee, but I've already contacted both my state senators. Nip this garbage in the bud! :cuss:
 
Posted by Shear_stress:

Senator "Looney"? Seriously?
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Yes, really...

Senator Martin Looney (D) is in his third term as Senate Majority Leader of the General Assembly, having first been elected to that leadership post in 2003. He is also Chair of the Executive and Legislative Nominations Committee and Vice Chair of the Legislative Management Committee. Since being elected to the State Senate in 1993, he has spent six years as Senate Chair of the Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee; Chairman of the Banks Committee, Vice-Chair of the Bonding Subcommittee, and Ranking Member of the Judiciary Committee.
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He represents New Haven and Hamden Districts.
 
Ask them how much of a kickback they're getting from the company promoting this?

ID Dynamics is the only one and they focus on getting legislation passed to make their useless product commercially viable. That's monopolistic and something that Mr. Looney should have his nose rubbed in.

Technical problems with applying microstamping abound.

* Stamped casing can only be traced to the last registered owner, not to the person who used the gun when the casings were stamped. In the case of a stolen gun, as is the case for most firearms used in crime, the stamped case would not lead to the criminal.

* High costs for testing the efficacy of the technique must be passed on to customers, increasing the cost of firearms for those who obtain them legally.

* Microstamping is easily defeated. Diamond coated files are inexpensive and will remove microstamping. Firing pins are normally replaceable and can be changed with simple tools or without tools. Marked components such as slides, barrels, firing pins and ejectors are all easily and commonly replaced items.

* Microstamping is an immature, sole source technology, and has not been subjected to sufficient independent testing. Transfer of microstamped marks to the cases is less reliable than proponents claim.

* Microstamping would be irrelevant/non-applicable for revolvers they do not eject shell cases.
 
Then it's time we learn how to make ammuntion that burns off totally, leaving nothing behind to eject.
 
Hungry Seagull, such ammunition already exists. I forget exactly what uses it, but it is a HK rifle/carbine of some sort.
 
Posted by cauberallies:
Hungry Seagull, such ammunition already exists. I forget exactly what uses it, but it is a HK rifle/carbine of some sort.
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Link?




Then it's time we learn how to make ammuntion that burns off totally, leaving nothing behind to eject.
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You mean something like this? ;)
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LOL @ the flintlocks

No, he means the HK G11 prototypes. They were using advanced caseless ammunition, allowing for less weight per round, more power for weight, and also a theoretically higher cyclic rate of fire as there was no ejection cycle, However, the weapon heated up much faster as brass serves as an heat sink in conventional weaponry.
 
Then it's time we learn how to make ammuntion that burns off totally, leaving nothing behind to eject.
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Or use revolvers.

Or a brass catching bag.

Or pick up brass from someone else and strew them at the crime scene.
 
Or pick up brass from someone else and strew them at the crime scene.
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Of several different calibers from several different sources... Brass is easily collected from any range... indoor or outdoor... yeah... that'll really throw CSI into a tizzy...
 
No no no... LOL at some of the stuff in reply...

Tossing down range brass at a crime scene will throw off the LEO's in a "Post-Stamp" crime in the future.

My intent was to have ammo such as used for the G11 burn off totally, leaving no stamps behind for anyone to worry about.

What's next? Vanishing ammo? Buy and shoot within a week or lose it to evaporation?
 
Let me make sure I understand this. This tech is supposed to use the gun to stamp the BRASS, right, and not the primer or bullet?

So what happens if the brass is reloaded five times and shot in five different guns before it's fired in the last one?

jm
 
Bleh, unfortunatly I have no way of getting to the hearing, since I somehow doubt anything that happens will end up on the news...:rolleyes: Post an update here if ya can on how it goes.
 
N003K, Please call or email the Judiciary Committee if you have time. I can't make it either, but LOTS of folks from our club are heading over. I've already made contact with my two senators as well.
 
Oh, I took care of that already, I did it once when I heard it first was in committee, did it once when I got the NRA Email the other day, and I may send another one tonight.
 
So what happens if the brass is reloaded five times and shot in five different guns before it's fired in the last one?
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So what's the chance that the guy who holds up a 7/11 reloads? There are many good reasons to oppose this law, but the fact that it might only work some of the time is not persuasive. Crooks only leave fingerprints some of the time. Crooks only leave DNA some of the time.
 
Hartford 9.45 AM

crowd is BIG
all parking within 1 mile was taken was what the police were telling those looking for a parking place.

micro stamping is like legislating pi = 3.0. this may allow the 'special' people to learn math easier, but it will not work in the real world. of course I'm thinking that enough laws passed later on to clarify the original and its bound to be so convoluted that statistically it can be proven to work. we elect them after all because they are the only ones professional enough to understand the laws they have made.:what:
 
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