the usual suspects at it again or still, according to NRA Alert

[alan]

New Microstamping Legislation Introduced

Friday, February 08, 2008

This week, Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) and Congressman Xavier Becerra (D-CA) introduced "microstamping" legislation titled the "National Crime Gun Identification Act of 2007." The bill is co-sponsored in the Senate by Senators Feinstein (D-CA), Menendez (D-NJ), Lautenberg (D-NJ), Durbin (D-IL), Schumer (D-NY), and Reed (D-RI).

Commenting on the bill's introduction, Kennedy said, "Micro-stamping ammunition is an important and effective method of tracing guns, and provides law enforcement with a much-needed resource in solving crimes."

Actually, microstamping has never been implemented. Legislation was passed in California at the end of last year, but has not been implemented. Therefore, claiming it is an "effective method" is not correct. On the contrary, there are numerous and varied problems with micro-stamping (for additional information on those flaws, please click here: http://www.nraila.org/Issues/FactSheets/Read.aspx?id=223&issue=078).

The measure has support from the usual gun ban groups, such as the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, the Brady Campaign, and others.

Of course, we will continue to actively monitor this legislation and will apprise you of any developments.

 

[Green Lantern]

Now where are the people saying that Democrats "learned their lesson" after the political thrashing they took after the 1994 AWB - ?

 

[Jorg Nysgerrig]

Now where are the people saying that Democrats "learned their lesson" after the political thrashing they took after the 1994 AWB

A bill introduced by the usual suspects means little and hardly gives you grounds for gloating. Save that for at least until is on the subcommittee calendar.

 

[Green Lantern]

Who's gloating? I see nothing to gloat about...

Today, upon looking at the inventory and doing a bit of deduction, I theorized we had a dispensing error. I was kinda brushed off by the others, till the woman it happened to called in and cussed one of us out. Being right isn't always cause for celebratuon, it outright sucks sometimes, y'know?

Hardcore antis of ANY party, sex, color, creed, et cetera don't CARE what us "unwashed masses" want. They're going to try and take our rights away, and they are NEVER going to stop!

Let's say that the Democrats lose Congress and the White House in 2008, and furthermore it becomes an undisputed FACT that it was due to antigun measures proposed and/or enacted since '06. The hardcore gun-grabbers out there - think Carolyn McCarthy, Rod Blag-whatsisname, pretty much all the Washington DC government, Mike Bloomberg....

You think for a second that they're gonna go "Oh...well, never mind then."

The trick is to make sure the "usual suspects" don't manage to convince people that AIN'T the usual suspects that their latest 2A-infringing scheme is a WONDERFUL vote-getter/crime-stopper/terra-fighter or whatever bravo sierra reason they can use to put the wool over the eyes of enough people to turn it from "pipe dream" into "LAW."

Underestimate them at ALL of our peril...

 

[mike101]

"Now where are the people saying that Democrats "learned their lesson" after the political thrashing they took after the 1994 AWB - ? "

This particular who's who of anti-rights zealots will never learn their lesson. So nice to see BOTH senators from NJ on the list.

I wonder if Feinstien and Schumer will be taking their guns in, to be retro-fitted with microstamping firing pins?

 

[MarcusWendt]

When we here in CA were trying to fight the microstamping bill, some, not many, but some offered up the sage advice that we should just move out of CA. We were advised to just give up and throw in the towel.

To those of you who laughed at our problem here in CA and advised us to move to a free state, I ask you now, where will you go?

 

[Hook686]

Really ? hmmmmmm I figure at worst it will cost more to buy a new pistol, and older ones ones wioll increase in value. It will be a useless expense to tax payers, but then tax payers roll with that sort of punch anyways, so I'll just grin and bear it.

 

[RedLion]

the law will define (and prohibit the sale of) any newly-designed semi-automatic pistol as an “unsafe handgun,” unless the pistol is equipped with two or more internal parts that imprint, onto the cartridge case of a fired round of ammunition, a microscopic array of characters that identify the make, model and serial number of the pistol.

Am I just ignorant or could a criminal buy a gun and then a dremel or file a little later?

 

[siglite]

Am I just ignorant or could a criminal buy a gun and then a dremel or file a little later?

Why would he care that the serial number points back to Joe Smith in New Mexico. The gun's stolen anyway.

 

[qbpc]

Its time to flood the .gov with emails and phone calls to stop this.
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