Gun-control groups push for more laws in NY

[bobclark86]

5. New York already tried tracking casings... it WAS called CoBIS.

... the system in New York required every new handgun to come pre-fired from the factory and the casings were put in a database like fingerprints.

Thirteen years and $46 million later, there were exactly two "hits," and NEITHER ONE led to a conviction. That's why a pro-gun RKBA-supporting governor killed it two budgets ago.

Oh, wait... That was Andrew Cuomo.

I'm opposed to microstamping and CoBIS for the same reasons Andrew Cuomo killed CoBIS -- because it doesn't work, can be defeated with a nail file or a rock (or using a revolver that doesn't spray casings everywhere... like half of all criminals already use), and the cost to maintain the system (and I'm not even touching the cost to convert more than 2 million handguns) would be astronomical.

"Responsible gun owners should have no problem with trying microstamping, even if refinements need to be made in the future."

It'll be just like CoBIS. $46 million that could have been spent on teachers and programs for at-risk children. $46 million in economic incentives for manufacturers to stay, so laid-off factory workers don't have to make meth to put food on their tables.

"Fact is, if it helps identify the perp -- or where a gun came from -- in only a small percentage of cases, it's worth it."

What if it doesn't, as CoBIS showed after more than a decade?

But because I point out how NYS ALREADY TRIED THIS AND IT FAILED, I'll be labeled an absolutist... even though I support high-capacity magazine bans; universal background checks, while requiring all states to report ALL disqualifying information; safe storage requirements for families with prohibited persons or small children; holding straw purchasers responsible for crimes committed (like a murder charge for a murder weapon); and actually TAKING guns from prohibited persons (something right now not actually done in most places); and about a dozen other ideas.

You know, things that will actually WORK and won't get scrapped the next time the state is looking for $400 toilet seat orders to cancel.

EDIT: Forgot a few things.

1) Cuomo is up for re-election in November. He needs at least SOME of upstate to win. As 52 of 62 counties (and 52 of the 54 counties considered Upstate) voted for resolutions calling for the repeal of the SAFE Act -- including several controlled by Democrats -- you see how more gun control right now may be a problem for his chances.

2) These bills are put up every legislative session -- even when CoBIS was in place. They won't get out of committee in the Senate, as the GOP senators who voted for the SAFE Act are terrified of getting primaried/shot by crazy tea baggers (there's been bricks and vandalism after it passed last year).