Nothing to see here. Move along. Taggants and stamping have been floated since the 1970s. Libs support it because a working system doesn’t exist yet, and won’t by the deadline set of 2010. Can’t make the deadline? Can’t keep your guns. However...
“More testing in a wider range of firearms is needed, the researchers said.” Translation: “We’ll keep flogging this dead horse until we get the results we want.”
I suggest we micro-stamp CO2 emissions, that way we can fine/imprison polluters, (how do we punish Mount Vesuvius?).
The lack of logic in this exercise amazes me. As if criminals go to teh local gun shop and legally purchase a roscoe, then run out and use it in a crime.
If the study indicates that these markings either wear out rapidly (I shoot approx. 10k rounds per year out of two combat handguns) or can be easily removed (but not easily checked), what value?
When, in the course of human events....
God Bless
Molon Labe