What is this micro stamping and how is it different than a serial number?
Never mind, caught an above post, saw it's on the firing pin.
In this state there is a fired cartridge with each gun and it supposedly is individual to the gun much as fingerprints.
First Let me say that the real reason for the Microstamping law isn't to solve crime, or even to make firearms more expensive, its to eliminate many models from the market in NYS.
For the most part its hard to find a fired case at a crime scene and match it to the library using the COBIS ssytem. Its possible in theory but there are a lot of cases to match to and of course 90% of guns don't have a case in the library. Because microstamping leaves an ID number, an investigator only has to look up the number.
Because the politicians who introduced the bill in NY don't know anything about firearms I am not sure that they understand the limitations of how this is going to work, or if they understand the possible effects that this could have on the way ranges work, or how brass travels in reloading circles. They just know that it will intefear with purchasing guns in NYS so it must be good.
As for Remington leaving NY its possible, but recent trends suggest that they have been centering production in the Ilion plant and shutting down production and moving elsewhere would likely be very expensive, at a time when its unlikely they have stock to continue sales through a move(judgeing by Rugers recent announcement).
The other thing is that Remington isn't headquartered in NY, so they don't have much of NY tax burden and because they are located in a rural area where they are a very large percentage of the business in the area they have quite a bit of sway in local politics. That may or may not be true in other areas.
The last point is that while the microstamping bill might piss off Remington, of their total sales they sell very few handguns in NYS so it has no real effect on them. The proposed law affects hanguns sold in NY, not made in NY. I wouldn't be suprised to find that this was a bargining ploy to work a better property tax deal with the city/county/school district.
