{"id":4593,"date":"2010-07-07T17:44:18","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T22:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=4593"},"modified":"2010-07-07T17:44:18","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T22:44:18","slug":"firearms-microstamping-study-bill-introduced-in-u-s-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/firearms-microstamping-study-bill-introduced-in-u-s-house\/4593\/","title":{"rendered":"Firearms Microstamping Study Bill Introduced in U.S. House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nssf.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">From the NSSF Blog:<\/a> U.S. Congressman Dan Boren introduced legislation this week (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nssf.org\/share\/PDF\/HR5667.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">H.R. 5667<\/a>) to direct  the U.S. Attorney General to work with the National Academy of Sciences  to conduct a comprehensive study of firearm microstamping. NSSF  supports this bipartisan legislation as a means of ensuring adequate  research of microstamping is completed, and the concept is proven to  work reliably, prior to states mandating microstamping through the  legislative process.<\/p>\n<p>Firearms microstamping is a patented  process that laser engraves the firearm&#8217;s make, model and serial number  on the tip of the gun&#8217;s firing pin so that, in theory, it imprints the  information on discharged cartridge cases. Every independent study to  examine the concept of microstamping has determined that it does not  function reliably and is flawed.<\/p>\n<p>NSSF thanks Rep. Boren (D \u2013  Okla.) for sponsoring this bill and\u00a0 Reps. Broun (R-Ga.), Bishop  (R-Utah), Herseth Sandlin (D-SD), Altmire (D-Pa.), Miller (R-Fl.) and  Boozman (R- Ark.) for co-sponsoring this commonsense measure.<\/p>\n<p>To  learn more about firearms microstamping, please visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nssf.org\/newsroom\/factsheets\/microstamping.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">NSSF  Microstamping Fact Sheet. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the NSSF Blog: U.S. Congressman Dan Boren introduced legislation this week (H.R. 5667) to direct the U.S. Attorney General to work with the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a comprehensive study of firearm microstamping. NSSF supports this bipartisan legislation as a means of ensuring adequate research of microstamping is completed, and the concept [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[809,810],"class_list":["post-4593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-second-amendment","tag-firearms-microstamping","tag-h-r-5667"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}