AFTE Store - Letter to the Editor: Ballistic Microstamping – Has Our Prayer Really Been Answered?

Gun control laws have yielded all kinds of technical measures to help uphold them, microstamping being one of them. While the technical aspects of microstamping and the ability to microstamp cartridge cases have been studied before, no one has tried to learn whether it can actually lower crime rates, prevent crime or whether it can be bypassed. In this paper, some of the weak points of this technology will be examined and it will be shown that it is not likely to deliver the “magic” solution that people expect.