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Brady Center on study of microstamping
I blogged the study here. Brady Center just came out with a press release critiquing the critque.
It "utilized vintage firearms that had never been considered for testing previously because of their model age (10-50+ years) and mechanical condition" The guns used were S&W .40 calibers -- hardly a cap and ball!
"NanoMark Technologies, which holds the patent for microstamping technology, provided firing pins for the study, but they were not optimized due to Beddow's budget constraints." Hmm? No details on what this optimization would have been, or why it would have affected wear on the firing pin. That it was so expensive as to prevent the manufacturer from undertaking it does not bode well for the argument that the expense of microstamping would be reasonable.
The whole debate omits the simple point that a commenter made in the earlier post. A crime-fighting technology that a criminal can negate with a few swipes of a file is not a very good one.
Comments
I graduated much higher than 6th grade, but I still don't know what "optimized" means in the context of the story.
Posted by: Letalis at May 11, 2007 06:11 PM
utilized vintage firearms that had never been considered for testing previously because of their model age (10-50+ years)
They're joking, right?
Please, tell me they're kidding. They can't possibly be that stupid.
They honestly think 10-50 years is enough time for a firearm model to be 'vintage'? What do they think the m1911 is?!
Posted by: gattsuru at May 11, 2007 09:36 PM
Does this mean that all 10-50 year old firearm designs would be exempt from their stupid little micro-stamp?
;)
Hurray for the 1911!
Posted by: KRL at May 12, 2007 08:34 AM