Will YOU boycott microstamped pistols?

[Elm Creek Smith]

(I'm convinced the military takes DNA samples from soldiers).

Well, duh! Before deploying, everyone gets a swab on the inside of the cheek. This is not for some nefarious purpose down the line when the leftists take over the government to enslave us all. It has to do with the crash of a charter airliner carrying members of the 101st Airborne coming back from the Sinai in 1985.

http://www.screamingeagle.org/gander.html

The problem was that dogtags don't always survive crashes. Therefore, DNA samples from everyone.

ECS

 

[RonE]

I am not a criminal nor do I plan to become one, why should I care? I own lots of guns, some from before 1968. I can still buy guns face to face without revealing my name. I seldom buy new guns, mostly used, so I don't care if they are micro marked. I have other things to worry about. Big brother might well be watching but he can't watch me all the time, nor can he watch you while he is watching me. I had a pistol stolen in 1980 and it was "registered" and reported stolen with the serial number and all the pertenant data. I have had a current drivers license and the same social security numbe since then and I haven't heard a thing about it. (don't dopers that steal guns fill out the BATF paperwork when they sell them to get their next fix?). The only thing about the California Law that really upsets me it that the manufacturing cost for guns will go up to comply with the law and all the jerks at the gun shows and on gunbroker.com will ask more for "pre micro" guns. I can see it now: LNIB S&W Mod 39 "PRE MICRO" with 2 mags and registration card. ONLY $5,000. Believed to have less than a box of PlusP shells down the pipe, one grip slightly cracked but otherwise sound. PRE MICRO.

What bull****!! Just anothe reason to have left California after 50 years.

 

[jungleroy]

I will not buy a mictostamper pistol.
I think I have more pistols than I could reasonably wear out in a lifetime.
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I should develop a plastic and paper cartridge to be used to fire thru them, that will burn into a lump on the ground once fired.
Will that make them ban paper and plastic, only time will tell.

 

[kurtmax]

For some reason I laughed when I saw 'PRE MICRO'.

As an avid PC gamer it has a... strange... meaning that I haven't quite figured out yet. Maybe it's a a few states before übermicro?

 

[2RCO]

My suggestion --Stock up on firing pins for your 1911 now or buy a wheelie.
I am also seriously thinking about encouraging a Boycott of California made products. The crappy thing about it is my website www.2rco.com is hosted by Yahoo headquarters Sunnyvale, CA. So by boycotting Cali I would have to dump the site or move it and go through the PITA of setting up a new one. I've also toyed with stopping all California sales but that just punishes residents that are gun owners.

One of the big problems with California is the Hollywood crowd--this is where I see a place we can make a big difference without really having to pull a large portion of the things we usually buy. If we all stop going to Movies and Buying or Renting DVD's our voice can be heard by the Hollywood elitists. Of course we'll have to make sure they know why their sales are going down by doing a little PR. But I am willing to take on a big portion of all of this if anyone else is in.

 

[possum]

no i will not boycot. what do you do one day when all the gun makers are made to do it, and then you can't get a new gun without the microstamping feature then are you gonna stop buying guns all together?

 

[Guy B. Meredith]

I voted no, but on second thought I'd rather boycott the politicians rather than the companies that are getting ground into the dirt with stupid regulations. I'd like my pistol to add to the statistics that show how useless the whole thing is.

 

[Novus Collectus]

I will probably buy one after six or seven years has gone by. That way we will know if the microstenciling will cause frame failures by giving cracks a place to form.
I would by one used though so the money doesn't go the manufacturer.

 

[skeeter1]

There are no "microstamped" pistols in my future. Period.

 

[oae]

One can rant and rave about California microstamping. Soon, complacent gun owners will be able to do the same concerning the Massachusetts microstamping when it becomes law as it's already in the works there. Teddy and Arnold working with their closely knit family are eventually going to get microstamping done on a national level. Yes, you can refuse to buy a microstamped firearm now. But...give it several years and all firearms manufactured nationally for the civilian market will be microstamped.

It's incremental GUN CONTROL and to think it all started nationally back in 1934. Back then sensible voices said only criminals and gansters had a need for automatic weapons. In the not too distant future, only criminals and gansters will have firearms that are not microstamp compliant. Again, it will be said to be sensible gun control and it will also chip away at what's left of the Second Amendment.

I hope I am wrong in my predictions, but the history of gun control is all about incrementalism and the loss of our freedom and gun rights as American citizens.

I did vote to boycott, by the way.


OAE

 

[SilentArmy]

I will not buy Micro stamped guns in the respect that I will not support any firearm manufacturer that plays into this political tyranny! The unfortunate Sheeple of California have been on a downward spiral and its picking up speed!
"We the Sheeple, In order to Farm a more Perfect Onion" I will not even visit to see Mickey Mouse!

 

[sacp81170a]

Buy a micro-stamped gun? Not in this lifetime...

 

[M2 Carbine]

I won't buy a gun that has the PC internal lock, so I'm sure not buying a "microstamped" pistol.

 

[ipscshooter]

I will NOT boycott gun manufacturers, who are the victims in this scheme, as much as the consumer is.

I will however, boycott anything that I can determine is made in California. I will not visit there and spend my dollars. The only way the political wacko's will get the message is hit them where it hurts. In their wallet. If business and workers start hurting they will let their elected representatives know their pain and maybe vote these social engineers out of office.

 

[Shipwreck]

If there was a gun I wanted, and it ONLY came in microstamped - I would not buy it. But, I wouldn't boycott an entire brand who made a few guns to work with CA laws, provided that they are only sold there.

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

I left California about 35 years ago...been back seldom since then and that was to visit or bury family. I've already got plenty of good side arms and I am getting up there in years so this won't affect me much but I do feel kinda sorry for you younger guys there...

 

[Clipper]

Well, 98.5% of us won't buy 'em...If THR is indicative of the general gun-buying public, the manufacturers better plan on a sales blitz in CA if they cave, to make up the shortfall in Free America...

 

[rdhood]

One can rant and rave about California microstamping. Soon, complacent gun owners will be able to do the same concerning the Massachusetts microstamping when it becomes law as it's already in the works there. Teddy and Arnold working with their closely knit family are eventually going to get microstamping done on a national level. Yes, you can refuse to buy a microstamped firearm now. But...give it several years and all firearms manufactured nationally for the civilian market will be microstamped.

You can pretty much bet that MA, IL, NY, D.C., etc. will fall in line behind this. Here is what I am betting happens...

If the microstamping thing does not go national, then manufacturers will make two sets of guns... microstamped an not. In the same way that they cannot sell some models of guns and hi cap mags to those states, they will not be able to sell non-microstamped guns to those states. If you bend a firing pin or ruin another microstamping component of your gun, then you either send in the gun for replacement, or you go to an FFL to pick up your replacement.

For the other states, they sell plain-jane firing pins and ejectors. You bend a firing pin, they send you another.

The guns with microstamping will cost more to produce and more to service.