The real problem is that all of those parts would print on the shell casing, not the bullet. What good would that do?
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SilentCal@lemmy.basedcount.com 9 months agoTheoretically there would have to be a printing mechanism either on:
- the firing pin
- the bolt face
- the chamber
- the extractor
- the ejector
Those are the only direct contact surfaces between the gun and the cartridge I am aware of. It would be better on the firing pin so that unfired but loaded cases don’t get double stamped and obscure the print.
The problem is that all of these parts are smaller than your pinky finger and must withstand ~2500 bar of pressure, extreme temperature, and mechanical stresses. The print also must be uniquely identifiable on a thin piece of brass, hopefully for an equivalent duty cycle as the part it’s replacing (assume 5-15k cycles).
I’m not sure if anyone has actually made a device to do this in the 10 years this law has been around. But I’d be impressed just for the engineering of the thing.
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 9 months ago
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I guess they’re assuming most hoodlums don’t pick up their brass. Jury’s out on revolver users.
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
In defense of this awful law, it would at least help catch anyone careless enough to leave their casings at the crime scenes and get caught with the weapon.
Optimistically, maybe everyone who’s been put in jail because of the pseudoscience of forensic ballistics could get a retrial, when the state admits that actually forensic ballistics is fake and we need serial numbers stamped on the bullets in order to identify them
SilentCal@lemmy.basedcount.com 9 months ago
Provide forensic evidence? Idk, it’s one of those feel good “at least we’re doing something” laws.
If CA Dems had any balls and actually wanted to solve gun violence, they’d lobby congress to amend the 2nd to ban handguns entirely. Then they’d set up a working social safety net for at risk youths and poverty stricken families. Rifles despite being scary and in CoD are something like 1-2% of murder weapons. The leading cause of homicides is gang violence driven by desperation but no one wants to talk about that.
But instead they’ll try to ban something that will get them a good sound bite: “ghost guns” “bump stocks” “binary triggers”
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It would be trivial to attach something that would catch the casings to collect them.
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microstamping
It’s a proprietary technology. I’m sure Todd Lizotte hasn’t made any massive financial contributions to the politicians who want him to make money off of every handgun sold in the state.