New Study Proves Microstamping Technology Works

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5. How many crimes were solved by NY's CoBIS program?

Microstamping isn't much more technologically advanced than that.

Feel good legislation is all this is. Politicians are technically challenged.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/cuomo_whacks_pataki_gun_law_IdjMJUXtMATKjhzqCOJLAK

Trouble is, the Pataki program NEVER worked. Despite the hundreds of thousands of spent shells submitted, not one criminal was ever captured using the extensive and costly-to-maintain database, state officials concede.

“We are ending a program that doesn’t solve crimes or make our streets safe,’’ said Cuomo spokesman Josh Vlasto.

“That’s what we said would happen from the start,’’ crowed Tom King, president of the New York Rifle and Pistol Association and a National Rifle Association board member. “I think Andrew Cuomo is a very intelligent guy who didn’t want to waste money, and this wasn’t working.”

Vlasto said CoBis cost about $1.2 million a year, but King said it was more like $40 million because of equipment, staff and related expenditures to get the system up and running.

Vlasto said the state would shift at least some of its CoBis spending to the federal National Integrated Ballistic Information Network, which tracks spent shells from guns used in crimes and not simply from those that were legally sold.

Ending CoBis is expected to strengthen the argument against another controversial anti-gun- crime technology, microstamping, which requires gun makers to install a device to put ID marks on spent cartridge shells.