Posted on 08/16/2007 5:06:59 PM PDT by kiriath_jearim
Exactly. I know a guy who lives in the San Diego area, who had a large collection of AR-15s; different manufacturer, different configuration, caliber, etc. He sold them all, every last one, for fear of running afoul of the CA Ugly Gun Ban.
This guy is a former Naval Officer, with security clearances up the ying yang, and his son is a Cop! (well deputy sheriff I think).
Now he's got a large collection of double barreled shotguns... different manufacturers, different barrels, different locks, hammers, hammerless, etc. Sick, just sick. (He really enjoyed shooting the M1919A1 and M-2 Carbine belonging to a coworker of mine when he came to "consult" on a project we were working on in San Antonio.
I’d like one of these nutjobs to explain to me how this could possibly work. Is this microstamp going to be on the tip of the firing pin?
I think the impression will probably be on the primer. But if instead of being put on by the firing pin, it's put on by the bolt face, it will likely be readable for as many times as you can reload a case. The impressions are microscope and the random orientation of the round would put it in different place with each round fired. The same would also be true if the impression were made by the chamber, plus the resizing process would tend to smooth out the old impressions.
Of course reloading would bring up the question of which impression was the last one.
Most likely and could be defeated by a file. Of course when the grabber figure that out, they'll make it a felony to deface the firing pin, and then maybe to own a file and gun at the same time.
No matter how many times a round is loaded, unless it misfires, the last impression on the primer will be the only one.
The remark was in the context of "if the firing pin was not the mechanism for making the impression". If it is, you are of course correct. However it's possible in theory to have the impression made by the bolt face or the chamber itself, which cases I was referring to with my remark about "the last impression".
The gun flakes never seem to quit.
It won't work.
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That crap was a major decision in my move from Kali to FL.
But TX is great too. I was just in Laredo last week and got to break in a DPMS SR-25 clone belonging to a friend of mine.
Bingo. You got it. The socialists have been very upset that their “gun safety” extortion scheme didn’t eliminate more guns from legal sale in CA. This latest scheme is another attempt. I’m sure the company that owns the rights to this so-called micro-stamping gimmick is greasing the right palms as well.
Of course. What a deal to have the state pass a law mandating that your new technology be incorporated into all new guns. Single source. No bidding. It smells like a corpse with 3 days in the hot sun.
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