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New push in N.Y. to force
gunmakers to adopt
microstamping
By MARINA VILLENEUVE and MAYSOON KHAN
Associated Press/Report for America
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York this week became the
second state to enact a law intended to force firearms
manufacturers to adopt microstamping, a technology in
which guns imprint tiny codes on ammunition cartridges
as they are fired — creating a unique signature police
could use to help solve crimes. Big questions remain,
though, about whether the new law will actually result
in such guns being offered for sale. California passed a
similar law 15 years ago, and since then no handgun ca-
pable of microstamping has been introduced for sale in
that state. Instead, gunmakers have pulled new hand-
gun models from the California market rather than equip
them with the technology, which critics say is costly, un-
workable and of questionable valuable as a crimefight-
ing tool. Both states are now trying new tactics to pressure
manufacturers. Backers of New York’s new law say it has A bullet casing showing identification codes, at center, is shown through a microscope at a news
a chance to succeed where California initially failed. conference at the Los Angeles Police Academy, Aug. 14, 2007.
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