Well, we have been testing a variety of firearms and getting ready to offer the royalty free license to firearms manufacturers in the United States for the civilian firearms market, starting in January. We have already begun talking to manufacturers who have preemptively come to us seeking to get the ball rolling.
One question that has kept coming up was about the UC Davis study is about rimfire. What many people do not understand, is that we told the researcher at UC Davis that what they were testing was a R&D project, since we were not allowed access to the firearms or to optimize the firearms.
One specific model pointed out as a complete failure by UC Davis was the .22 cal Ruger Mark II. We were specific about the Ruger Mark II that they were using, since it had serious wear and tear and oxidation and since we could not evaluate the firearms dynamics, taking into consideration its operation and the condition it was in, it would fail. This is a guarantee without running the optimization protocol, i.e. allowing us to analyze the firearms dynamics and then match the characters geometry to those dynamics. On three separate occasions in emails we stated without question that the .22 cal test would probably not work out. We had requested fired cartridges so we could get a better understanding, but the graduate student did not have access to the firearms, since they were held at the CA DOJ.
So, when asked about why it failed, we always tell people, the UC Davis project confirmed our findings back from 1996, if you do not optimize the microstamp to the dynamics of the firearm, it doesn't work well. It is simply shake and bake, you set an experiment to fail, it will fail. We had hoped the UC Davis project was about the graduate student applying forensic methods to analyze the potential benefits or to extract the characters. What happened was disappointing, but in the end as the UC Davis Chancellor states, this project was not commissioned by the legislature or the California Policy Research Center.
Since, people are concerned, we decided to create a special test on a new model Ruger Mark III and purchased a brand new Ruger Mark III, for about $260.00. What was interesting is that even at $260.00 it had the new California round in chamber indicator and magazine requirements. The price hasn't changed much since prior to those requirements.
We are in the midst of firing 5000 rounds on the optimized Mark III. Initial 50 rounds show excellent results show 100% code extraction (the ability to read the entire code). We will post images mid January when the first 2500 rounds are complete. We are imaging every cartridge.
Best regards,
Todd Lizotte
