Massachusetts Special Legislative Commission on Emerging Firearm Technology

A group created by sweeping gun control measures signed into law last July by Massachusetts Governer Maura Healey has convened to “investigate and study the status, feasibility, and utility of emerging firearm technologies, including, but not limited to, personalized firearm technology and microstamp technology.” The group includes politicians, law enforcement professionals, military backgrounds, a tech … Read more

NSSF On the Moronic Myths of Microstamping

By Larry Keane Microstamping has reared up as gun control schemers elevate it as a sophisticated means of “gun safety,” a sly euphemism for gun control. Proponents of the unworkable, unreliable and ineffective concept keep their heads in the sand regarding the feasibility of microstamping mandates because they can’t face the truth. It doesn’t work. … Read more

More Microstamping Mandates…And ‘Smart’ Guns, Too!

This Week in Gun Rights is TTAG’s weekly roundup of legal, legislative and other news affecting guns, the gun business and gun owners’ rights.  Federal Bill Would Mandate Guns Be Made “Smart” Ah, the ever-present threat to increase the IQ of our tools. Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney has proposed a bill that would require all new … Read more

Let’s Look at HR 719, the Oddball Federal Microstamping Bill in the House

Last year, Rep. Anthony Brown, [D-Maryland] filed HR 719, the MICRO Act. In typically brilliant legislative fashion, MICRO stands for “Making Identifiable Criminal Rounds Obvious.” I didn’t pay it too much attention to the MICRO Act, thinking it just another microcephalic microstamping requirement which I didn’t expect to go anywhere. Microstamping, after all, is a … Read more

New York Bill Would Mandate Individually ‘Coded’ and Registered Ammunition

New York Assemblyman Felix Ortiz is a legislative genius. When last we checked on his work, he was planning to GPS-enable every new gun in the state, and require firearm owners to have just the sort of insurance that the state was busily shutting down. Amidst all of that, I somehow missed another one of … Read more

Second Amendment Foundation Files for Supreme Court Review of CA ‘Unsafe Handgun Act’

In the crime-free, gun-controlled utopia of California, guns available for sale to civilians are subject to something called the Unsafe Handgun Act. The law mandates that guns sold there have three features: 1) a magazine disconnect safety, 2) a loaded chamber indicator and…wait for it…3) microstamping capability. Gun models sold before the law was enacted … Read more

Cuomo to the Mattresses, Hysteria in Floriduh and FOID Follies — TTAG Daily Digest

Cuomo Ups Anti In Taking Legal Fight To NRA Governor Soprano goes to the mattresses . . . Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced Friday that the state will highlight the National Rifle Association’s pledge to spend $1 million to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court in papers related to the state’s motion to dismiss the NRA‘s lawsuit. The … Read more

Just Because You Can’t Comply With A California Gun Control Law Doesn’t Mean It Shouldn’t Exist

“Impossibility can occasionally excuse noncompliance with a statute. But impossibility does not authorize a court to go beyond interpreting a statute and simply invalidate it.” – California Supreme Court Justice Goodwin Liu in Calif. Supreme Court upholds law requiring bullet-tracing technology on guns [via sfchronicle.com]

The Un-Funnyman’s Arsenal, Trolling a Die-In and Facebook Protects Our Children – TTAG Daily Digest

JERRY LEWIS GUNATHON!! Massive Personal Arsenal for Sale We never did think he was funny. But this gets him a posthumous check on the credit side of his life ledger . . . Did you know … Jerry Lewis had enough guns in his private collection to arm an entire militia?! It’s true … and now … Read more