Comment on Judge blocks California law requiring safety features for handguns
Blamemeta@lemm.ee 9 months agoMicrostamping. No gun made has it. Afaik, no gun has ever been made with microstamping.
Its a ban by another name.
Comment on Judge blocks California law requiring safety features for handguns
Blamemeta@lemm.ee 9 months agoMicrostamping. No gun made has it. Afaik, no gun has ever been made with microstamping.
Its a ban by another name.
Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 9 months ago
No cars were made with catalectic converters until laws were passed mandating them.
Every computer printer sold in the last 30 years prints an invisible code on the paper uniquely identifying the printer. None did this until a national security law was passed.
Surely a gun manufacturer would see this as a USP if they were the only ones able/willing to implement the requirement.
Blamemeta@lemm.ee 9 months ago
I’m not an engineer, so take this with a grain of salt, but it would massively raise costs (think poll tax), the engraving would wear out in a few hundred rounds, we don’t even bother with rape kits, why would we bother with brass, and it can easily be defeated in about a minute by sticking a sanding stone in there. There is no benefit, only extra costs.
Its the NRA, but they know a lot of things I don’t. nraila.org/…/micro-stamping-and-ballistic-fingerp…
FireTower@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The technology behind microstamping is the priority work of Taclabs any company that wanted to implement it would need to pay that company in order to do so. Currently the technology isn’t mature enough to be practical used.
Plus there’s a litany of problem like the fact that any components that could be used to microstamp could be replaced with a different set of parts bearing no or different stamps.