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Blocking Gun Laws With Patents
New submitter robkeeney writes "Legislators in several states are working on laws that would require certain gun manufacturers to implement 'microstamping' to help law enforcement solve gun crimes. 'Lasers engrave a unique microscopic numeric code on the tip of a gun’s firing pin and breech face. When the gun is fired, the pressure transfers markings to the shell casing and the primer. By reading the code imprinted on casings found at a crime scene, police officers can identify the gun and track it to the purchaser, even when the weapon is not recovered.' As with any gun-related legislation, many people oppose these new laws. In California, a law passed in 2007 requires that when microstamping (which is easily defeat-able) is no longer patent encumbered, all new guns in CA must use it. To fight it, an organization called the Calguns Foundation paid a fee to extend the patent in order to prevent the law from going into effect."
File the firing pin? Good luck getting the gun to fire reliably after that. Buy the gun outside CA? Sure, but that's why there's a push for all the states to have firing pin tech. Laser engrave some other dudes ID on it? Man, if you can do that, you wouldn't be need to kill dudes with a gun--you'd laser them. A firing pin party? Sure. Let's give your pin to someone else and be responsible for whatever they did. "How did they end up with your firing pin?" "Uh, I gave it to him." "Why?" "Second Amendment rights, uh." "Let's go down to the station to clear this up..."
A NYC lawyer blogs. http://www.chuangblog.com/
No need for extra firing pins, though; a bit of sandpaper is all that is needed to remove the microstamping.
Criminals aren't going to stand around the crime scene, collect the casings, sandpaper them off, and put them back on the ground, before running off.
Really, you gun-nuts need to get a clue.
The best thing, of course, is to just ban guns from the country. Grab them from every household. The gun-nuts can easily get a different hobby, such as gardening. And government can train them to not live in constant fear for their lives, like we liberal gun-grabbers do.
The 2nd Amendment wasn't for your personal liberty. You do not have any personal liberty, something the libertarians don't understand. Everyone gets to live in the structure defined for them by society. Living inside the Matrix is no less valid than living outside the Matrix.
Please state the primary intended use for a gun. Don't forgot about all the research that went into developing armor piercing bullets and bullets that liquify flesh and fragment to cause as much damage as possible. Neither of those technologies have anything to do with sport. That last thing you want in that deer you just shot is 500 tiny fragments of lead. Deer also don't hide behind armor.
Law-abiding citizens also use guns to murder their ex-wives.
We liberals will grab guns from the law-abiding citizen before we worry about grabbing them from criminals. It's actually the law-abiding citizen that's more of a threat than the criminal.
Want to know why? It's because gun-owners are conservatives, who have higher divorce rates, and therefore kill their ex-wives more. It is why homicide rates are higher in conservative societies than liberal societies.
Really, get rid of your gun. It builds character, something conservatives could use.
Fortunately it isn't TOO annoying here in PA. Shall issue, $20, good for five years, all it takes is "not being a criminal" pretty much.
Still more hassle than it should be (any hassle is too much hassle) but better than some states.
I still don't see the reason anyone would WANT to carry a gun. You just wasted $300 you could have spent at Starbucks or a new XBox or something. You don't need a security blanket everywhere, when you can simply live a riskier life.
Ultimately, do we really want to trust a segment of the population that hasn't figured out that guns are worthless?