Hey! I Know That Gun!

Did you know there is a way to identify a firearm that's used in the commission of a crime? Did you know that the technology for it has been around since the 90s? Now the next question's a little trickier. Do you know who's against using this technology? Well yes, of course, the people who commit those crimes are against using that technology, but do you know who else? Gun makers are against it. Them and of course the NRA. Gun makers claim it would be very expensive to do what is necessary. Basically what happens is the guns would have micro engraving on the firing pin. A number code. A different one for each gun. Now it's such an expensive deal that the government has been stamping sequential numbers on paper money for decades, probably more than a century. That part of the technology is somewhat understood. Making it small enough is the newer technique. So now do you wonder why the NRA is against the idea? I mean I understand why the gun manufacturers don't like it. There are some costs involved and no manufacturer likes increased costs. But why the NRA? Well it's not so hard to understand if you stop to realize that the major portion of the NRA's income comes from gun manufacturers. So if Remington, a major gun manufacturer, says they don't like this idea, which they have said to the point of threatening New York of quiting the state if it passed such legislation, why then, if companies like Remington and others don't like it, then the NRA doesn't like it. Never mind that the NRA, National Rifle Association, is an organization which claims to be the supporter of sportsmen. It is in effect a lobbying arm of the firearms industry, not at all interested in the best interests of sportsmen, except as the two interests intersect. Hey, they publish a sportsman's magazine, isn't that enough? Of course there's lots of gun makers ads in it.