The one side of the story: a crime scene evidence collector finds a shell casing at the scene of a crime. They photograph it, bag it, and turn it over to the crime lab. Upon examination, they find a microscopic imprint on the case head that belongs to a Value Arms .223 serial number 69000. After a search with the manufacturer, investigators find the distributor that sold it, who contacts the gunshop it was sent to. A phone call and fax to the gun shop has a return fax of an ATF form 4473 with whom they sold the firearm to. Science fiction? CSI on steroids? No its micro stamping and it could possibly be coming to a firearm near you.
Continued in my column at Firearms Talk.com
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About laststandonzombieisland
Let me introduce myself. I am a bit of a conflict junkie. I am fascinated by war and warfare, assassination, personal protection and weaponry ranging from spud guns and flame throwers to thermonuclear bombs and soviet-trained Ebola monkeys. In short, if it’s violent or a tool to create violence it is kind of my thing.
I have written a few hundred articles on the dry encyclopedia side for such websites as History Times, Firearms Talk.com, GUNS.com, Suite 101 (where I am the contracted Feature Writer for Military History) and Combat Forums; as well as for print publications like England Expects, and Strike First Strike Fast. Several magazines such as Sea Classics, Military Historian and Collector, Mississippi Sportsman and Warship International have carried my pieces. Additionally I am on staff as a naval consultant and writer for Eye Spy Intelligence Magazine.
Currently I am working on several book projects, including a section in the upcoming Mississippi Encyclopedia (to be published by Ole Miss this summer), an alternative history novel about the US-German War of 1916, and a biography of Bennett Doty. My first novel, about the coming zombie apocalypse was released this Spring by Necro Publications and can be found at Amazon.com.
In my day job I am a contractor for the US federal government in what could best be described as the ‘Force Protection’ field. In this I am a certified Firearms, and less-than-lethal combat instructor.
My issue is the cost will be passed to the consumer. This will suck…