Remington and Colt Fire back

[PeteF 1,044]

Well here we go again on the useless micro-stamping.

But this time Remington and Colt are telling the idiots to stuff it.

 

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/08/28/microstamping-legislation-may-lead-remington-colt-to-relocate/

 

I really do love their response.

 

Paraphrasing

 

Fine pass the law, we will leave the state and take our jobs and tax revenues with us.

[lunker 274]

Good for them. Dwindling tax base. Increasing taxes. Obamanomics on a smaller scale. No reason to stay in NY.

[JamesC 2]

At least someone in the industry with some weight and gravitas is making a stand.

[Blacksmythe 71]

These guys dont have a clue/ How does that deter the crime? What about reloads..... I hope they do leave. NY needs a kick in the chops.

[tony357 386]

How is that going to stop someone from pulling the trigger...

[diamondd817 828]

If memory serves me right Cumo just dissolved the NY ballistics shell/casing program, citing millions have been wasted and not one crime has been solved. I don't think Cumo would be on board with this.

 

It will never work anyway. What is stopping anyone from changing their firing pin?

[Ray Ray 3,566]

Head west my friends, or south.

[Turbotezza 1]

So what happens if you need a spare firing pin?

[mcbethr 42]

It will never work anyway. What is stopping anyone from changing their firing pin?

 

The problem is that the people who think of these laws don't know what a firing pin is and don't want to know. That would involve devoting more time to a subject that they dislike.

[BCeagle 12]

I would think even legal gun owners would have to file off the microstamping. Who wants someone picking up one of your shells from the range and throwing it at a crime scene with 30 other shells to confuse the police and then everyone gets a knock on their door.

[Ray Ray 3,566]

The last 2 comments are perfect. It's a corny feel-good law that will do NOTHING.

[fumanchu182 23]

That’s the new threat: to move where that [gun] friendly state is,” she said. “It’s unfair of them to resist sensible regulation to save lives. It does not impact lawful gun ownership at all.

 

How does it save lives? When some decides to pull the trigger and the casing has hit the ground, a life may or may not have already been lost.

 

Also...

 

Their main product isn’t even semiautomatic guns; the main thrust of what they do are long guns and military contracts,” Schimel told FoxNews.com. “As a former businessman, it would be foolish for them to leave the New York market. They are getting a lot of money from the state.

 

So why is it then logical for a company whose main product is not semi-automatic firearms to change what they do just because you want a feel good law? If the main sales of said company are long guns and military contracts then the money that the NY market is giving them for semi-automatic firearms is very small compared to long gun sales and military contracts. She contradicted herself in her own statement.

 

:smh:

[reloaderguy 30]

What would be even better is if they refuse to sell to NJ LE!

[claptrap 0]

I would think even legal gun owners would have to file off the microstamping. Who wants someone picking up one of your shells from the range and throwing it at a crime scene with 30 other shells to confuse the police and then everyone gets a knock on their door.

 

You wouldnt get a knock, more like a no knock raid.

 

But what you said here is actually scary cause it would take 2 secs for a criminal to do this and it could put a legal gun owner in jail or cost them thousands of dollars to clear their name.

 

Another gun law that can possibly benefit criminals rather than legit gun owners.

 

[JackDaWack 2,895]

Criminals file off serial numbers that are 100000000000000x bigger then a micro stamped firing pin...... you really really really think there not going to file off this one?

[PeteF 1,044]

So NY and Ct gonna keep a log of all the Semi Auto guns Colt and Remington sell?

Since it would be a state law, the sale of a Remington in Pa would go unreported back to NY.

So how exactly is NY going to find out about the sale and registration?

 

F'ing Idiots can't even half think before they try to pass a law to "make us safer"

[quikz 34]

FNY.

[Kaiser7 33]

Article was taken down, anyone have a mirror? I'd like to read it.

[KpdPipes 388]

At least someone in the industry with some weight and gravitas is making a stand.

 

Ronnie Barrett set the bar for this one

[KpdPipes 388]

So what happens if you need a spare firing pin?

 

You would probably have to have it done by a "Registered' gunsmith who would then report the new microstamp number to whatever governing authority had the responsibility for the database, and of course possession of Non- Microstamped parts would constitute a felony in and of itself......and in the end, not one SINGLE crime will probably ever be solved by this law.