To The Reader’s Forum:

Microstamping did not work during the Pataki administration and it will not work now. Governor Pataki, a Republican, introduced and passed legislation mandating that any new handguns coming into New York state need a fired case provided by the factory. That was suppose to be the DNA of the firearm.

Many manufacturers would not provide a fired case because it was added expense mixed with total nonsense. Consequently New Yorkers were not able to have a firearm of their choice because of this new law.

I would order the firearms anyway however I had to travel to Batavia to have the New York State Police fire the pistol and provide me with a fired case. That got to be very time consuming and expensive but I did it anyway.

Then when Governor Cuomo, a Democrat, came into office one of the first things that he did was to defund that fired case law. Why? Because it cost millions of taxpayers dollars to implement and it never solved one crime.

Now some politician are wanting to implement the same program (micro stamping) that cost millions of dollars to implement with very little to no results. As Yogi Berra once said “its like deja vu all over again”.

The only state that has that law is California. All the other states between California and New York do not. How the law is going to accomplish anything is beyond anyone’s imagination.

A gentleman I worked with some time ago had a saying that I have never forgot, “If one horse is not doing its job you don’t whip all the horses.”

I am pleading with my representatives to stop using this kind of mindset. We are not horses and we don’t like to be whipped for doing nothing wrong. We are law-abiding citizens of this state. Just enforce the laws that we currently have.

No law that you could possible manufacture, even total confiscation, will stop craziness.

Jamestown