Remington Arms Company threatens to pull plant out of New York in response to Bloomy-backed gun bill

[Straw Man]

84. Wrong again. Spectacularly.

Like everything of value, it doesn't have to work all the time. Heck, if it helped solve 5% of crimes it would be worth it. Don't you think?

Well, ballistic fingerprinting is more of a proven technology than microstamping. Ballistic matches have been made using ballistic fingerprinting, if -- and that's a huge if -- the firearm and the cartridge have both already been recovered by police. But the COBIS concept, which keeps a massive archive of fired cases and tries to match them to cases recovered from crime scenes, has been nothing but a big fat expensive failure for the past ten years. It has solved not 5%, not 4% or 3 or 2 or 1% of crimes, but 0% of crimes, that's zero, ZEE-ROW, zip, zilch, nada. At the cost of $10 million dollars. Apparently that makes some kind of sense in your world -- it does inconvenience law-abiding gun owners somewhat, which is what you're all about, right?

I still believe gunners bitch about it because they know that one day they could be standing there like Zimmerman with a dead, unarmed teenager at their feet. Thus, they don't want any chance of leaving incriminating casing around. Your own buddies have said right here on this thread they'd just go to revolvers. to avoid that.

Bullshit. That's B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T. Am I making myself clear? No one on this thread has said they'd "just go to revolvers" -- they said the criminals would. You're making shit up again. Some might call it lying. Do you have any shame whatsoever?

But here's the good news. The budget committee of the New York State Legislature has just axed COBIS and microstamping from the budget.

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/guns/ny-budget-committee-strikes-down-ballistics-imaging-and-microstamping

It's about time.