Posted May 11, 2019 8:30 am by Comments

By Tom Knighton

Sen. Cory Booker has gotten a lot of attention lately due to his anti-gun proposal. After all, if you tell someone you expect them to get a license to not just buy firearms, but to keep the ones they have, you’re going to get some attention.

However, one thing some of us (looking squarely at myself here) missed was that his proposal didn’t just stop there. No, he’s calling for a measure that would effectively ban new handgun models for the foreseeable future.

The list of gun control ideas that Cory Booker unveiled yesterday includes that hoary favorite, a ban on “assault weapons,” whatever those are. But it also included a less familiar proposal that would amount to a gun ban: “handgun microstamping.”

As the New Jersey senator and Democratic presidential contender explains, “Microstamping is technology that allows law enforcement to identify the source of ammunition used in crimes by making a shell casing traceable to the specific gun that fired the round.” The problem is that such technology has not been developed yet in any practical and cost-effective form. So when Booker promises he will “fight to require that microstamping technology be incorporated into new …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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