why do dems pass laws demanding people use technology that does not exist?
https://www.nj.com/news/2024/03/tracing-bullets-nj-approves-microstamping-guns-but-nobody-sells-them.htmlTracing bullets: N.J. approves ‘microstamping’ guns, but nobody sells them
Updated: Mar. 01, 2024, 12:00 p.m.|Published: Mar. 01, 2024, 11:30 a.m.
Microstamping tech
New Jersey authorities approved technology that would allow police to trace "microstamped" bullet casings back to the gun that fired them.
By S.P. Sullivan | NJ Advance Media for
NJ.comNew Jersey officials on Wednesday released a long-awaited report on gun “microstamping” technology that would make it easier for police to solve gun crimes, an “important step” toward making every commercially sold weapon traceable, according to the state’s attorney general.
Just one problem: Nobody sells them.
New Jersey is now one of just a handful of states with laws concerning microstamping, a method using lasers to inscribe a unique code onto a gun’s firing pin, which then imprints the mark onto a bullet’s casing. Think of it like the VIN number etched all over your car.
Gun control advocates call it a game-changing technology, one that allows police to trace weapons even in cases where no gun is recovered. The gun industry maintains the technology isn’t up to snuff, and a federal court last year ruled against a California law mandating microstamping and other features in new guns.
New Jersey’s law, enacted in 2022, doesn’t mandate microstamping like similar laws in New York or California, instead offering rebates and incentives to pressure gun manufacturers to incorporate the technology. It also ordered the state attorney general to investigate the “technological viability of microstamping-enabled firearms.” That report was released Wednesday — more than a year after its statutory deadline.
