The State Senate is currently considering legislation that would require microstamping technology on all semi-automatic handguns sold in New York State. This technology would supposedly aid law enforcement by imprinting a firearm-specific code on cartridge cases as they are fired. The New York State Rifle & Pistol Association and other pro-Second Amendment groups have long opposed this legislation as impractical and an economic burden on firearms manufacturers and owners. The technology is easily defeated by the criminally-minded, and research conducted in California when it was considering similar legislation showed that the imprinted serial numbers were illegible about half of the time.
On June 3rd State Senate leaders held a meeting with the company that is the sole source of microstamping technology, and with anti-gun individuals and groups such as the Brady Campaign and New Yorkers Against Gun Violence. The purpose of this meeting was to see the technology in its current form, and to plan the campaign for microstamping legislation in the State Senate. Pro-Second Amendment groups that tried to attend this meeting were barred at the door. [emphasis added] ...
More here. So the Brady Campaign and other anti-gun groups get to attend the Senate meeting, but not the pro-gun folks. Gotta love open government, huh?
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