New York State Senate Bill 4397 Sponsored by Liberal Pinhead NY State Senator Eric Schneiderman Requires semiautomatic pistols manufactured or delivered to any licensed dealer in New York State to be capable of micro-stamping ammunition and establishes fines for violations of this requirement.
It seems to me that Senator Eric Schneiderman has been watching way to many Science Fiction movies like Judge Dread. In the movie Judge Dread starring Sylvester Stallone the Peacekeeper multi function firearm imprinted the users DNA profile on all ammunition fired by the weapon. Now Schneiderman’s bill does not go this far, I am sure he would like it to, but it would require all Semi automatic handguns sold in New York to “Micro- Stamp” all fired ammunition casings.
Firearm Micro-Stamping also known as ballistic imprinting and ballistic engraving is a process where each round a firearm fires is stamped with the make, model and serial number of the weapon used to fire it. The information in theory would be imprinted on each bullet casing ejected from the gun via the guns firing pin and breach face of the firearm.
Now in the Liberal Pinhead mind of Senator Eric Schneiderman the “Micro-Stamping” process would prevent the illegal use of guns in the commission of a crime. I guess the good Senator feels that criminals actually use legally purchased firearms to commit crimes.
Senator Schneiderman should listen to firearms experts in his own state. Firearms expert George Krivosta, of the Suffolk County New York crime lab, found that the “vast majority” of micro-stamped characters in the alphanumeric serial number couldn’t be read on “any of the expended cartridge cases generated and examined.”
Now there is another major flaw with the idea of Micro-Stamping ammo casings. Anyone with cheap common household tools could remove the micro stamp in just minuets completely removing the micro stamp imprint from being applied to the spent ammo casings.
Also all criminals would have to do is obtain spent casings from any firing range to seed and contaminate a crime scene. This alone would cause a law enforcement nightmare and cast reasonable doubt in almost any crime that used a firearm with the micro stamp technology.
What would the micro stamping technology really do? First it would make firearms much more expensive for manufactures to produce and this cost would be passed to law abiding gun owners in New York State. Gun manufactures may stop selling guns in New York State altogether to avoid the micro stamp requirement. It would cost New York taxpayers millions of dollars to set up and maintain the firearm micro stamp database to keep track of the micro stamp codes used for each firearm sold in New York State.
The bottom line here is that New York State Senate Bill 4397 is just another Big Government attempt to take New Yorkers Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms away from them.
Please email Senator Eric Schneiderman at schneiderman@schneiderman.org and other NY lawmakers and let them know that the Micro Stamping of Firearms is a waste of taxpayer’s money and will accomplish nothing but infringe upon the Second Amendment right of law abiding citizens to legally own firearms.
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How about a compromise. Have them run a five year test case with just law enforcement handguns to see how this works before imposing the restriction on the public.
Oh, and have an independent agency audit the results so they can’t just declare success without facts to back it up.
My hunch is that you will hear wailing and gnashing of teeth from the LEO community about how it’s too expensive and unproven technology. You know, all the reasons we object to this would suddenly become a real issue when the tables were turned.