Microstamping case headed for California Supreme court argument

guns.com ^ | March 13, 2018 | Chris Eger

[ConservativeWarrior]

Police your brass! haha

And police someone else’s for easy framing.

[umgud]

This law is doing exactly what it was intended to do. Cut off the supply of semi auto pistols.

[CurlyDave]

...where the police find the gun on the person who shot a person. They are the vast majority of murders. This whole “stealing a gun” to shoot someone is very rare unless it is a family member and the gun is in the house.

You have been watching too much TV. The vast majority of murders are never solved.

I can't find the current % of stolen guns used in murders but I did find a statistic from 1991:

"...According to the 1991 Survey of State Prison Inmates, among those inmates who possessed a handgun, 9% had acquired it through theft, and 28% had acquired it through an illegal market such as a drug dealer or fence..."

If we just take this at face value, in at least 37% of times where we find a criminal with a gun, tracing the gun would lead us to the wrong person. Now this is not the same as finding cartridge cases and tracing the gun from there, which I suspect would be even worse.

But, the real bottom line is that if we find the gun on the criminal and we have the cartridge cases, we can already match them up by forensic examination.

What this law does is point police to the wrong person in more than 1/3 of all instances.

[taxcontrol]

Not impossible, but micro stamping is not the magic bullet (pun intended) that the left makes it out to be.

[bravo whiskey]

use a Colt ARMY 1860. .44, no ballistics on a smashed lead ball, no brass.

[CodeToad]

Most shootings are with stolen guns. How would this help?

[Yo-Yo]

Rumor has it that the only reason Glock still manufacturers Generation 3 handguns is for the California market, where they are grandfathered onto the Roster of Certified Handguns.

The newer Gen 4 and Gen 5 pistols can only be sold to law enforcement in Kalifornia. Opening up the roster again to new pistols will end that nonsense.

[IndispensableDestiny]

Remove the firing pin, run it over a sharpening stone, no more micro-stamping.

Maryland did not use micro-stamping. It required a fired case from each handgun to be sent to the State Police to be imaged and put into a database. The idea was that ejection markings could be used to identify the gun. In the years they had the program, they had one match.

Soon enough the State stopped scanning the cases. They just threw them all into 55 gallon drums. Finally, the regulation was repealed.

[Nuocmam]

My guess is that in “The land of the fruits and nuts” they know it is impossible but will pass or have passed a law which says that no gun can be sold or owned in California unless it has such capability.

[Oatka]

And don't forget Fire Lapping