A federal judge on Monday blocked California from enforcing a state law requiring new semiautomatic handguns to have certain safety features, finding it violates the right to bear arms under the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
Theoretically there would have to be a printing mechanism either on:
the firing pin
the bolt face
the chamber
the extractor
the ejector
Those are the only direct contact surfaces between the gun and the cartridge I am aware of. It would be better on the firing pin so that unfired but loaded cases don’t get double stamped and obscure the print.
The problem is that all of these parts are smaller than your pinky finger and must withstand ~2500 bar of pressure, extreme temperature, and mechanical stresses. The print also must be uniquely identifiable on a thin piece of brass, hopefully for an equivalent duty cycle as the part it’s replacing (assume 5-15k cycles).
I’m not sure if anyone has actually made a device to do this in the 10 years this law has been around. But I’d be impressed just for the engineering of the thing.
It’s a proprietary technology. I’m sure Todd Lizotte hasn’t made any massive financial contributions to the politicians who want him to make money off of every handgun sold in the state.
In defense of this awful law, it would at least help catch anyone careless enough to leave their casings at the crime scenes and get caught with the weapon.
Optimistically, maybe everyone who’s been put in jail because of the pseudoscience of forensic ballistics could get a retrial, when the state admits that actually forensic ballistics is fake and we need serial numbers stamped on the bullets in order to identify them
Provide forensic evidence? Idk, it’s one of those feel good “at least we’re doing something” laws.
If CA Dems had any balls and actually wanted to solve gun violence, they’d lobby congress to amend the 2nd to ban handguns entirely. Then they’d set up a working social safety net for at risk youths and poverty stricken families. Rifles despite being scary and in CoD are something like 1-2% of murder weapons. The leading cause of homicides is gang violence driven by desperation but no one wants to talk about that.
But instead they’ll try to ban something that will get them a good sound bite: “ghost guns” “bump stocks” “binary triggers”
It would be trivial to attach something that would catch the casings to collect them.
The point of this isn’t to actually work. No company does this right now, and no company has plans to do this. The point of this law is to effectively ban guns without outright calling it a gun ban. That’s just not the right way to attempt to do it.
Theoretically there would have to be a printing mechanism either on:
Those are the only direct contact surfaces between the gun and the cartridge I am aware of. It would be better on the firing pin so that unfired but loaded cases don’t get double stamped and obscure the print.
The problem is that all of these parts are smaller than your pinky finger and must withstand ~2500 bar of pressure, extreme temperature, and mechanical stresses. The print also must be uniquely identifiable on a thin piece of brass, hopefully for an equivalent duty cycle as the part it’s replacing (assume 5-15k cycles).
I’m not sure if anyone has actually made a device to do this in the 10 years this law has been around. But I’d be impressed just for the engineering of the thing.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microstamping
It’s a proprietary technology. I’m sure Todd Lizotte hasn’t made any massive financial contributions to the politicians who want him to make money off of every handgun sold in the state.
The real problem is that all of those parts would print on the shell casing, not the bullet. What good would that do?
I guess they’re assuming most hoodlums don’t pick up their brass. Jury’s out on revolver users.
In defense of this awful law, it would at least help catch anyone careless enough to leave their casings at the crime scenes and get caught with the weapon.
Optimistically, maybe everyone who’s been put in jail because of the pseudoscience of forensic ballistics could get a retrial, when the state admits that actually forensic ballistics is fake and we need serial numbers stamped on the bullets in order to identify them
Provide forensic evidence? Idk, it’s one of those feel good “at least we’re doing something” laws.
If CA Dems had any balls and actually wanted to solve gun violence, they’d lobby congress to amend the 2nd to ban handguns entirely. Then they’d set up a working social safety net for at risk youths and poverty stricken families. Rifles despite being scary and in CoD are something like 1-2% of murder weapons. The leading cause of homicides is gang violence driven by desperation but no one wants to talk about that.
But instead they’ll try to ban something that will get them a good sound bite: “ghost guns” “bump stocks” “binary triggers”
It would be trivial to attach something that would catch the casings to collect them.
The point of this isn’t to actually work. No company does this right now, and no company has plans to do this. The point of this law is to effectively ban guns without outright calling it a gun ban. That’s just not the right way to attempt to do it.