New California law requires age verification for all OS accounts

Re:New California law requires age verification for all OS a... by dataflow on Friday February 27, 2026 @08:36PM (#47188857)

> The micro stamping law is in no way reasonable because removing the micro stamping from the end of a firing pin is laughably trivial. The only people who won’t do this are people who weren’t going to break the law in the first place.

I'm curious, so if (when?) California ends up successfully hunting down some criminals with this, what is your new position going to be? They were going to get caught anyway, or something like that?

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Re:New California law requires age verification for all OS a... by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS on Friday February 27, 2026 @10:05PM (#47189697)

It'll never happen. As op said, it's laughably trivial to remove, and thus criminals will remove it.

Legitimate gun users will, at best, use their weapon in self defense, in which case they'll be sitting there waiting when the police arrive, so no need for microstamping.

The "crime of passion" so popular in TV shows are few and far between, and there's usually a huge amount of other evidence.

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Re:New California law requires age verification for all OS a... by knorker on Saturday February 28, 2026 @07:10AM (#47194291)

I think you're overestimating the intelligence of most criminals. And their gun logistics discipline.

If it were possible to do, it'd help.

Also, removing the marking mechanism would be a process crime. Process crimes are very useful for catching criminals.

Are you against serial numbers on guns too? You can always file those down.

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