Daniel P. Sullivan, who is the assistant pistol license officer for Oneida County wrote the following response to the ongoing attempts by New York to make microstamping the law of the state: As an experienced expert on handgun licensing procedures, Sullivan’s observations are the most accurate and honest of any I’ve seen or heard.“The (proposed) ballistic microstamping law as it relates to pistols (semi-automatic handguns) is a huge waste of money. Some pertinent points need to be made to help non-gun owners understand the existing gun laws throughout the nation so they will hopefully realize I and many other law-abiding gun owners feel this way.Forty-four states do not require any type of license to purchase or own a handgun. Thirty-one states do not have any prohibition on public open carry of a handgun. By law, all gun owners in New York state must carry concealed in any public format. (Concealed means out of sight; the gun must be covered up).The application process takes three to four months. The applicant undergoes an extensive background check that includes mental health, domestic and a criminal history check. All of this must be completed before a license to carry a handgun is issued.New York is one of only three states that has a gun registry specific to both the owner and the gun. Every handgun I own has to be registered to me via my pistol license. If I sell that gun, there is a record of who purchased it from me; 47 states do not have this requirement.So what is microstamping? It is the ability to have the make, caliber and serial number microstamped on the back of the cartridge (what most people call the bullet) by the firing pin of any semi-automatic handgun sold in New York — not revolvers. The firing pin is about the size of the tip of a ballpoint pen, so this gives you some idea of how small the microstamp is.The political theory behind this is that any cartridge case (the cartridge case is what is ejected to the ground when any semi-automatic gun is fired) found on the ground at a crime scene can now be traced back to the owner. Sounds fantastic doesn’t it? So why the opposition? How will this affect legal gun owners and criminals?It will have a great impact on legal gun owners, but virtually no impact whatsoever on criminals. New York would be the only state microstamping semi-automatic handguns (revolvers cannot be microstamped) , and the manufacturers of these guns would simply no longer wish to do business in New York because it would be cost prohibitive to change their whole system for the sake of selling semi-automatic guns here. Last year, gun sales to new pistol license holders in Oneida County alone accounted for taxable sales of approximately $225,000.
(revolvers cannot be microstamped) Where's that eight shot S&W 627 .357??? Jerry Miculek seems to like it....Who needs a semi-auto anyway.....leaving those spent casings on the ground.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWSvjgNOJyo&feature=relatedBastards will try anything...
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