Hello I am the inventor of Microstamping (Semiauto pistols), not ammo.

Microstamping makes sense, becasue it allows law enforcement to trace firearm trafficking.

~45% of firearm related crimes go unsolved; no witnesses - just empty cartridge casings. By providing law enforcment a tool to trace the firearm, even if they do not recover the firearm is extremely important.

Comprehensive trace data provides a view of the big picture of how guns are diverted into criminal use.

This data is useful in identifying gun traffickers, straw purchasers, and scofflaw FFLs.

Criminals are creatures of habit, they tend to develop patterns, especially when they are involved in trafficking. They purchase from the same places and use the same networks. In manya cases the trafficking networks are also the same networks who traffic drugs. Social netowrk databases, known assocaite databases and existing drug trafficking route data are integrated into gun trace data to track down sources of illegal firearms.

Police work if difficult, but it is extremely difficult if you do not have data or Intel in a timely manner.

Pattern crimes are also easy to disrupt or create sting operations around, since they are somewhat predictable. as long as they can be identified sooner, rather than later.

So, why microstamping? It is passive, benign and doesn't compromise 2nd amendment rights.

You need to go an see Colt's testimony in CT. They said they are working on RFID tagging for crates, individual gun cases and in the future you can expect they will place them onto military firearms.

At that point, the indsutry better have a way of justifying why they are against RFID when they actually implemented it in the military.

I like to ask the firearm indsutry groups when I see them at hearings, if they have EasyPass - most of them do. Well, welcome to RFID tagging.

In the end, we need to help law enforcment identify firearms used in crime the first time the firearm is used, not after the seocnd or third time; once the police recover the firearm.

Real time data is critical to law enforcement. I would rather help using a passive and benign mechanical method, instead of an active electronic tagging method.

As for the technology, we are offering a royalty free license to the firearms industry in the United States.

I will answer any questions about the technology.

Best regards,
Todd

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