CT Micro-Stamping Bill Will Ban Handguns

[hso]

Criminals won't be strewing brass "from the range" around. They don't go to the range, they don't use guns registered to them and they don't take time to cover their tracks that way.

It also won't put gun manufacturers out of business. It just requires the firing pin to microstamp the primer.

What it will do is increase the cost of firearms manufacturing because the manufacturers will have to license the technology from IDD to use it.

Tell them if CT wants to void IDD's patents or develop an alternative to it that is not monopolistic we'd be interested in hearing about it, but until then it will be assumed that the supporting legislators are in IDD's pocket.

 

[distra]

Here are few links to the testimonies.
http://www.cga.ct.gov/2009/JUDdata/Tmy/2009SB-00353-R000316-Dept.%20of%20Public%20Safety,%20John%20A.%20Danaher%20III-TMY.PDF
http://www.cga.ct.gov/2009/JUDdata/Tmy/2009SB-00353-R000316-Fraternal%20Order%20of%20Police%20CT%20State%20Lodge,%20John%20Flynn-TMY.PDF

Plus link to main testimony page.
http://www.cga.ct.gov/asp/menu/CommDocTmy.asp?comm_code=JUD&date=03/16/2009

 

[statelineblues]

Any info on the outcome? Anyone stay for the whole session?

 

[JohnL2]

When the tree of common sense falls over in the woods, does it make a sound?
Not in Connecticut I guess.

 

[lanternlad1]

When the tree of common sense falls over in the woods, does it make a sound?

Remember, these are the people that took the Beloved Charter Oak (the one you see on the back of the CT quarter) where was hidden the Charter Of Connecticut and made it into a high backed armchair.

Yep, Yankees can be stupid sometimes...

 

[JohnL2]

Well, I am a Yankee, and I've done plenty of stupid things in my life. In defense of Yankees in general, I must say they are for the most part, great people.
It is just that it is so disappointing to see what we have in government. I have no doubt that this Senator has the best intentions but I just have to wonder where this guys' logic is. Doesn't he know how easy it would be to defeat this measure by someone with just a little bit of ingenuity?
And what about all the enthusiasts who like to swap parts to customize their firearm?
After observing politics for the short time that I have become interested in it, I have come to the realization that there are basically two types of people who go into politics. Well meaning nice people, who are kind of half-witted; and then the "mean set" of people. You know who you are.

 

[lanternlad1]

Well, I am a Yankee, and I've done plenty of stupid things in my life. In defense of Yankees in general, I must say they are for the most part, great people.

I agree. I was born in CT, and lived there for the first 25 years of my life. That makes me a Yankee too.

 

[statelineblues]

Update from NRA-ILA:

"Micro-Stamping" Bill Heard Yesterday (Mon., 16 March) in Hartford

Please Continue Contacting Your State Legislators!

A strong showing of law-abiding gun owners spoke loudly yesterday in Hartford at the hearing on Senate Bill 353, a bill which would ban the sale of all semi-automatic handguns not equipped with so-called "micro-stamping" technology.

Thank you to the hundreds of opponents of this proposal who took time from work and their busy lives to stand up and say "NO" to yet another misguided anti-gun bill.

Members of the Joint Committee on Judiciary must vote on SB353 by Friday, April 3 in order for the bill to advance.



Thank you again to all who have made their voices heard. If you haven't yet done so, please be sure to contact your lawmakers and urge them to oppose SB353!

 

[eye5600]

As matters stand now, if a gun is found at a crime scene, a cop takes the s/n and goes to the phone. He starts with the manufacturer and asks what distributor it was shipped to. He calls the distributor and ask what gun store. He calls the gun store and asks what customer. He calls (or visits) the customer and asks where the gun is. After half a day on the phone, he finds the gun was stolen and it's a dead end. Or maybe not. With micro-stamping, it would be the same.

If I were a legislator, I would be worried about a) all the voters who would be angry (livid? total, inconsolably enraged?) about having most models of guns taken off the market (until/unless they comply), and about voters who are angry at the me for helping make guns more expensive, and very uncomfortable for legislating a mandate for a private, patented technology. But I don't think I'd be much worried on the gun trace side.

 

[Carl N. Brown]

[snark]Members of the CT legislature obviously hold stock in revolver factories.[/snark]

Introduce a bill to require microstamping for REVOLVERS TOO (which will have crime fighting value only with a bill to require criminals who use revolvers to dump their empties at the crime scene).

If the relatively gross toolmarks left on cartridges and bullets by firing pins, extractors, firing chambers, breech faces and muzzles can change over a few years of even light use, how long will the microstamp etchings hold up? The guy who holds the patent on microstamping must have a good lobbyist.