What if you police brass from a range to handload?
"The new technology, microstamping, uses powerful lasers to make extremely precise, microscopic engravings on a handgun's firing pin or inside the firing chamber."
I guess that would depend on whether the microstamp is on the firing pin or on the chamber wall. If it is on the firing pin then no, only the number of the last gun to fire the round would be on the primer. Obviously, if the stamp is inside the chamber then the case would have multiple stamps assuming the case had been fired multiple times in a gun that was made after this law came into effect and that the gun had not been altered. As far as using brass from a police range (mentioned in another post), that is assuming that the police are using guns with this technology and the gun that previously fired the round was new enough to have this technology and it hadn't been modified. It would seem to me that handloading police range brass would just give another clue: this was fired by gun X, the case was picked by someone with access to range X who is also a handloader....................
Obviously this is only going to work if someone is using a handgun they legally purchased, and the handgun was made after this goes into effect, and it the handgun has not been modified. Equally obvious is that if they made modifying the gun illegal (which they will), I am sure that anyone wanting to illegally shoot someone else would be stopped cold at the idea of breaking the law by modifying the gun. But again, that is all obvious to those of us blessed with brains.
California currently has a law requiring handguns sold there to pass some kind of drop test or something. That limited the types of guns sold in that state to guns that the manufacturer was willing to submit for testing. This law is going to further limit the guns sold in that state to guns that have already passed the previous drop test or whatever it is AND is willing to use this new firing pin engraving.
"The new technology, microstamping, uses powerful lasers to make extremely precise, microscopic engravings on a handgun's firing pin or inside the firing chamber."
I guess that would depend on whether the microstamp is on the firing pin or on the chamber wall. If it is on the firing pin then no, only the number of the last gun to fire the round would be on the primer. Obviously, if the stamp is inside the chamber then the case would have multiple stamps assuming the case had been fired multiple times in a gun that was made after this law came into effect and that the gun had not been altered. As far as using brass from a police range (mentioned in another post), that is assuming that the police are using guns with this technology and the gun that previously fired the round was new enough to have this technology and it hadn't been modified. It would seem to me that handloading police range brass would just give another clue: this was fired by gun X, the case was picked by someone with access to range X who is also a handloader....................
Obviously this is only going to work if someone is using a handgun they legally purchased, and the handgun was made after this goes into effect, and it the handgun has not been modified. Equally obvious is that if they made modifying the gun illegal (which they will), I am sure that anyone wanting to illegally shoot someone else would be stopped cold at the idea of breaking the law by modifying the gun. But again, that is all obvious to those of us blessed with brains.
California currently has a law requiring handguns sold there to pass some kind of drop test or something. That limited the types of guns sold in that state to guns that the manufacturer was willing to submit for testing. This law is going to further limit the guns sold in that state to guns that have already passed the previous drop test or whatever it is AND is willing to use this new firing pin engraving.