NRA and bad law block a way to catch killers?

[farson135]

I don't reuse the primers, and if the firing pin strikes some other location on the base of the cartridge, I have the gun repaired.

Microstamping also puts a stamp on the case and not just the primer.

 

[2DREZQ]

Microstamping also puts a stamp on the case and not just the primer.

I know. I was just being facetious. Some of the posts focused solely on the firing pin.

 

[sawdeanz]

That was a very troubling opinion piece indeed, although I was most annoyed by how it strayed so far from topic and how the author seems to have no knowledge of the 14th amendment. The argument is very thin indeed.

As for microstamping, the biggest problem I have is, assuming it was cheap, viable and reliable, how it could be used to prosecute criminals. With my limited legal knowledge, I would think that the ability to match a casing to a gun, and a gun to an owner, does little to say who shot the gun and could only be useful as part of a larger case. Its not an end all to stopping criminals, and therefore is certainly not the technology that would catapult forensics from the stone age to the future. And if the statistics regarding canada's gun registration are any indication, then it was wise of NYC to vote out such a law

 

[JTHunter]

sawdeanz said:

As for microstamping, the biggest problem I have is, assuming it was cheap, viable and reliable, how it could be used to prosecute criminals. With my limited legal knowledge, I would think that the ability to match a casing to a gun, and a gun to an owner, does little to say who shot the gun and could only be useful as part of a larger case. Its not an end all to stopping criminals, and therefore is certainly not the technology that would catapult forensics from the stone age to the future. And if the statistics regarding canada's gun registration are any indication, then it was wise of NYC to vote out such a law.

That's the same argument they give about those blasted "red-light cameras". Can the cameras verify WHO was driving? NO - they just "bill the owner" as a money grab!