Today's Contra Costa Times, a Knight-Ridder newspaper for one of the counties in the S.F., Bay Area, on the front page, has an article on microstamping with a bias that it is a good thing. http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/14394934.htm. To summarize:
The article was written by Rebecca Rosen Lum, 925-977-8506.
The questions I have is, isn't the number one point against this technology the fact that something like 90% of guns used by criminals are stolen?
I posted this same information on CalGuns.net: http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?t=32517
- Mentions that 33 police chiefs and 2 sheriffs support it.
- Says it would allow handgun homicides to be quickly and easily solved.
- Quotes GOA's Sam Paredes saying criminals could easily thwart it by filing of firing pin, who then later says the bill doesn't stand a chance.
- Quotes Todd Lizotte, who developed the technology for NanoVia, who says criminals won't go to that much effort to file down firing pins, and also says that they are "hard as diamonds."
- Quotes Koretz [Bill sponsor; also sponsored the 50 BMG legislation] as saying the technology is fool-proof and will pull the bill if it is proven it isn't.
- The only additional cost mentioned is 50-75 cents per gun [no discussion of ammo]
- Closes with Griffin Dix, head of the Million Mom March in CA, saying that if an ID number can be put on yogurt containers, then they can be placed on guns.
The article was written by Rebecca Rosen Lum, 925-977-8506.
The questions I have is, isn't the number one point against this technology the fact that something like 90% of guns used by criminals are stolen?
I posted this same information on CalGuns.net: http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?t=32517