Microstamping is another tool for police investigators to discover the criminals. But, the rightwing gun rightists want to prevent that from happening.
“Forensic testing of ammunition used in a crime is the most effective way of tracing criminal activity.” (click here)
- Former Republican Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger
...A technology called “microstamping” has made comprehensive ballistic identification a reality. Microstamping technology utilizes lasers to make microscopic engravings on the breech face and firing pin of a gun. As the gun is fired, a code identifying the weapon’s serial number is stamped onto the cartridge. This enables police to trace a gun without ever physically recovering it. A traced firearm is a valuable lead in a criminal investigation, because investigators can then connect that weapon to its first purchaser, who may become either a suspect or a source of information helpful to the investigation....
Smith and Wesson states it will effect profits. So, let me get this right. Smith and Wesson believes most of their semi-automatic weapons end up at crime scenes? For real. The only reason NOT to comply is that Smith and Wesson's profit margin depends on criminals purchasing their products or there are straw purchasers for the criminals that prefer their products. Does Smith and Wesson actually have market research to that effect?
There is every reason for honest citizens that keep weapons for self-protection to like this law. There is simply no way their weapons can be misidentified as a weapon at a crime scene unless it was stolen. So, I don't get it. Why would any gun manufacturer object to protecting innocent people be they gun owners or the victims of gun violence? I find that very odd.
January 24, 2014 12:05pm EST
By Chloe Albanesi
...Gun makers Smith & Wesson and Sturm, Ruger Co. (click here) said this week that a new California law requiring semiautomatic pistols to be equipped with technology called microstamping could result in fewer of their weapons available for sale in the state.
"Smith & Wesson does not and will not include microstamping in its firearms," the company said in a Thursday statement. Ultimately, California's mandate "will result in a diminishing number of Smith & Wesson semi-automatic pistols available for purchase by California residents."...
It is the manufacturer's choice to withdraw their product. Fine then. It is NOT the new law that is forcing these guns out of the California gun market. So, let's get that straight.
A new gun law proponents (click here) say helps law enforcement has driven Smith & Wesson and Sturm Ruger out of California, and affirmed the suspicions of firearms rights advocates that the measure is really about making handguns obsolete.
The two companies have announced they will stop selling their wares in the nation's most populous state rather than try to comply with a law that requires some handguns to have technology that imprints a tiny stamp on the bullet so it can be traced back to the gun. The companies, and many gun enthusiasts, say so-called "microstamping" technology is unworkable in its present form and can actually impair a gun's performance....
...“The microstamping mandate and the company’s unwillingness to adopt this so-called technology will result in a diminishing number of Smith & Wesson semi-automatic pistols available for purchase by California residents....
How it works.
...Microstamping (click here) represents a significant improvement over existing ballistic identification technology. Through the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network (NIBIN) program, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) currently deploys Integrated Ballistics Imaging System (IBIS) equipment and technology to state and local law enforcement agencies for use in comparing ballistic evidence found at crime scenes....
“Forensic testing of ammunition used in a crime is the most effective way of tracing criminal activity.” (click here)
- Former Republican Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger
...A technology called “microstamping” has made comprehensive ballistic identification a reality. Microstamping technology utilizes lasers to make microscopic engravings on the breech face and firing pin of a gun. As the gun is fired, a code identifying the weapon’s serial number is stamped onto the cartridge. This enables police to trace a gun without ever physically recovering it. A traced firearm is a valuable lead in a criminal investigation, because investigators can then connect that weapon to its first purchaser, who may become either a suspect or a source of information helpful to the investigation....
Smith and Wesson states it will effect profits. So, let me get this right. Smith and Wesson believes most of their semi-automatic weapons end up at crime scenes? For real. The only reason NOT to comply is that Smith and Wesson's profit margin depends on criminals purchasing their products or there are straw purchasers for the criminals that prefer their products. Does Smith and Wesson actually have market research to that effect?
There is every reason for honest citizens that keep weapons for self-protection to like this law. There is simply no way their weapons can be misidentified as a weapon at a crime scene unless it was stolen. So, I don't get it. Why would any gun manufacturer object to protecting innocent people be they gun owners or the victims of gun violence? I find that very odd.
January 24, 2014 12:05pm EST
By Chloe Albanesi
...Gun makers Smith & Wesson and Sturm, Ruger Co. (click here) said this week that a new California law requiring semiautomatic pistols to be equipped with technology called microstamping could result in fewer of their weapons available for sale in the state.
"Smith & Wesson does not and will not include microstamping in its firearms," the company said in a Thursday statement. Ultimately, California's mandate "will result in a diminishing number of Smith & Wesson semi-automatic pistols available for purchase by California residents."...
It is the manufacturer's choice to withdraw their product. Fine then. It is NOT the new law that is forcing these guns out of the California gun market. So, let's get that straight.
By Perry Chiaramonte
A new gun law proponents (click here) say helps law enforcement has driven Smith & Wesson and Sturm Ruger out of California, and affirmed the suspicions of firearms rights advocates that the measure is really about making handguns obsolete.
The two companies have announced they will stop selling their wares in the nation's most populous state rather than try to comply with a law that requires some handguns to have technology that imprints a tiny stamp on the bullet so it can be traced back to the gun. The companies, and many gun enthusiasts, say so-called "microstamping" technology is unworkable in its present form and can actually impair a gun's performance....
...“The microstamping mandate and the company’s unwillingness to adopt this so-called technology will result in a diminishing number of Smith & Wesson semi-automatic pistols available for purchase by California residents....
How it works.
...Microstamping (click here) represents a significant improvement over existing ballistic identification technology. Through the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network (NIBIN) program, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) currently deploys Integrated Ballistics Imaging System (IBIS) equipment and technology to state and local law enforcement agencies for use in comparing ballistic evidence found at crime scenes....
