Concerns about Federal Gun Laws — Lou Dobbs Report
CNN’s “Lou Dobbs Tonight” featured a segment on gun-owner concerns about the Obama administration, bullet serialization and firearms microstamping. As a state Senator in Illinois, Obama supported a 500% increase in taxes on bullets and ammunition. NSSF Senior V.P. and General Counsel Lawrence G. Keane was interviewed for the segment. Keane expressed concern that the Obama Administration favors microstamping of bullets and/or cartridge cases. Though scientists have declared that microstamping is not a viable technology at present, Democrats are still pushing for it. Keane worries that mandatory microstamping could make the shooting sports prohibitively expensive.
CNN’s Lou Dobbs also interviewed Wyoming Senator John Barrasso, a vocal critic of Obama’s selection of Eric Holder as U.S. Attorney General. Barrosso noted that Holder has stated that the Second Amendment does not recognize an individual right to “keep and bear arms”. While Holder has declared that the Obama administration “has no intention of doing anything that would affect a state’s regulation of firearms”, Dobbs pointed out that Holder left open the question of FEDERAL (as opposed to state) regulation of firearms.
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Dont believe that microstamp on cartridge case is not a viable technology: in Brazil, since 2006, all ammo sold has microstamp on the case (serial numbers and code bar).
And, of course, it does nothing to decrease crime rate…
LR —
Thanks for your report from Brazil. Regarding Microstamping–the question is not whether you can affix a stamp to a brass case, but whether the system is reliable as a crime-control measure. Studies at U. Calif. Davis and by other scientists have challenged the reliability of the process. Furthermore, here in the U.S., micro-stamping advocates want it applied to firing pins and other internal components.
There is certainly no argument that microstamping would increase the cost of ammo and pistols.
I am from Canada.
Without a mile-long discussion, all you yanks need to know is that a gun registry is just one step closer to not having any!
Fight the b@stards every step of the way!
LRCampos, the microstamping technology in discussion in the US does not involve stamping the cases. It involves having the firing pin stamp a serial number on the primer, so that the spent casing can be linked to a firearm.
This will only work if the criminal hasn’t bothered to polish the firing pin tip, or used a gun that was actually bought under his name. Right.