Leave it to California .... Microstamping

Unrealistic, impossible, and improbable;  no wonder California loves the "Microstamping" initiative!

Microstamping case headed for California Supreme court argument: California’s high court is set to hear arguments in a long running case brought by firearms industry groups who say the state’s microstamping requirement is unattainable. 

We have discussed the case for microstamping before, but the GUNS.COM article provides a clear explanation of the anti-gun movement's eternal attempt to render firearms ownership impossible:

 The case, challenging the state’s 2007 unsafe handgun modification requirements, is set for arguments in a Los Angeles court on April 4. Plaintiffs, the National Shooting Sports Foundation and the Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers’ Institute, insist the legal requirement for semi-auto handguns to mark cartridges with a microscopic array of characters, that identify the make, model and serial number of the pistol upon firing is “impossible to accomplish” and has only worked to artificially limit choices available to California gun buyers. At stake is the ability to purchase newly manufactured semi-auto handguns in the state.

One of the problems with "Microstamping" is that it's a simple matter to obscure the markings on the breech face of a firearm so that the data impressed on the base of a fired cartridge is unreadable.

Another problem is the administration; if enacted, this law would require that all firearms be registered with the stamping information.   This is an enormous administrative burden which will doubtless be passed down to the firearm owner, via the manufacturers' HUGE increase  in expensive tooling in ensuring that firearms are treated to include unique\ embossing on the breech face.

Yet a third complexity involves wear on the breech face over years of use, which will eventually obscure the "micro-stamping".

But perhaps the most important, and least discussed issue with "micro-stamping" is that it is designed to identify the firearm from which a cartridge is fired, and (by implication, since it it touted as a "means to identify owners who commit gun-crimes"), it also links the owner of a firearm to the gun.

This is Registration by Fiat.

The ultimate goal of Microstamping is to inflict a paper trail of gun owners.
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