Comment on Judge blocks California law requiring safety features for handguns

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SilentCal@lemmy.basedcount.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Theoretically there would have to be a printing mechanism either on:

  1. the firing pin
  2. the bolt face
  3. the chamber
  4. the extractor
  5. 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.

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