A commission that examined emerging firearm technology approved recommendations and accepted a report Tuesday that could ...

Microstamping does have support from New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a former NYPD officer who voted for the measure in 2010 as a member of the state Senate before the bill was pulled.

Its microstamping law covers all newly manufactured handguns, not just new models, meaning gunmakers would only be able to bypass the rule until they depleted existing stock.

A New York state law requiring microstamping capability in new pistols is already five months behind schedule, with final results from a required study of the technology not expected until later ...

Feuer said microstamping technology has been reliable and available since before the 2007 law was passed, and costs only a few dollars per gun to install -- although gun makers dispute this.

Microstamping technology uses a laser to cut a pattern or code into the head of a firing pin or another internal surface. The method is similar to that used to engrave codes on computer chips.

A microstamping law was passed more than a decade ago in California, yet gun manufacturers are still not complying with that law. But supporters say legislation written in New York and New Jersey ...

As firearms account for 7 in 10 homicides in the United States, new technology called microstamping could play an important role in increasing the case-closure rate by providing law enforcement ...

Microstamping our guns is hurting our economy Mateo Melero March 11, 2014 Courtesy of MCT Because it wasn’t enough of a hassle already for a law-abiding Californian to obtain a firearm, anti-gun ...

Microstamping imprints the make, model and serial number of the gun onto shell casings when a round is fired, purportedly to help police solve crimes.

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 ...

I mention COBIS because microstamping will have the same lack of positive results. It will have no bearing on revolvers, because they don't leave shell casings.