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That would be great. How is microstamping going to achieve that? It would require the number from the firing pin/striker to be registered to the bad guy. I'm no genius, but it seems to me that a bad guy could avoid that by 1) having a stolen firearm or one that is otherwise not registered to him (straw buyer, firearm purchased with false ID) or 2) replacing the firing pin or sanding it down to obscure or remove the numbers, both of which would be relatively easy and cheap to do. It would not help with a revolver and CA has exempted revolvers from their scheme for this reason.Wouldn't it be a great idea if whenever a bad guy fires a weapon it put his ID on it. How would this help with a revolver ?
How would it help with any gun? What happens if I buy a brass catcher for any of my firearms? Are we gong to try and make those illegal too? Do you know how much brass is left freely at a gun range where other people can simply just pick up a casing? Micro stamping is bullbubblegum. It does noting but makes Californians "feel good" that they have done something.
Wouldn't it be a great idea if whenever a bad guy fires a weapon it put his ID on it. How would this help with a revolver ?
No it wouldn't.
I disagree. As a pie in the sky question it would be great if the gun (magically) put the bad guy's ID on it.
Aside from wishful thinking it is so close to being completely unrealistic that it might as well be an absolute. So many conditions would have to be present for it to work that it would be as statistically likely to be successful as one of us winning the mega millions jackpot. It should NEVER be mandated.
Wikipedia will suffice to answer the OP's original question.
Firearm microstamping - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wouldn't it be a great idea if whenever a bad guy fires a weapon it put his ID on it. How would this help with a revolver ?