Industry Group Makes Statement On Microstamping

By Tom Knighton

We get it. Hoplophobes don’t like guns.

They make it clear with everything they do. One of the more annoying things is a requirement to use microstamping technology on guns sold in the state of California. I’ll admit it, this should have been on the list of dumb gun control laws, but I didn’t think about it. Why? Because it’s so impractical as to be unthinkable.

Yet, it’s the law.

As Guns.com reports, however, industry groups are taking issue with this law because of that impracticality.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation and Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers’ Institute argued to the California Supreme Court in a filing last month that the state’s 2007 law requiring new semi-auto handguns sold in the state to have the capability to permanently mark shell casings fired through the gun with an identifying mark asks for something that cannot be done. As such, the state has whittled down the number of pistols certified for sale to the point that the industry has lost $183 million annually since 2013 in missed sales to California’s gun owners.

The groups point to the fact that the roster of approved handguns as of late July contained just …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms