Firearm Industry Representative Gigantic Blunder!!! : Using RFID Firearm Tracking Technology To Discredit Microstamping

During testimony in Connecticut, March 17th, 2008, at the request of the firearm industry representative groups who say they are protecting our 2nd amendment rights, the head of New Product Development and the Chief Counsel from a Connecticut Firearms producer, bungled an attempt to discredit microstamping. See the video on the Connecticut legislature website.

How did they do this? In simple terms they publicly acknowledged and emphasized that because they failed to apply laser technology to make appropriate 2D barcodes for tracking military firearms that they ended up opting for RFID tracking.

Why is this significant? It means they publicly stated that they have successfully implemented Radio Frequency Identification technology (RFID) to track each individual firearm from their manufacturing facility to their final destination.
The Firearm Co. from Connecticut stated during testimony that they are implementing RFID to military firearms. As is always the case, they focused on crates first and testified that they now have been placing the RFID tags on individual firearm boxes and next based on military press releases, the military wants RFID tags on the rifles and pistols themselves.

So, according to the firearm indsutry representatives microstamping which is passive and benign, is supposedly EVIL!!! And to prove it they bring forward a firearms company from Connecticut who testify the use of ACTIVE Radio Frequency ID tags is better. What kind of strategy is this?

RFID is an ACTIVE tagging device, which can be read from a distance and be used to track where you are if you conceal carry. What was the industry representative thinking about? Who is planning the testimony strategies? Whose idea was it to use the success of RFID tagging and tracking for military firearms as the best way to discredit microstamping?

Microstamping of firearms is simple, passive, cost effective and benign. Microstamping also allows the industry to control its destiny and protect against the use of RFID or ammunition serialization.

Microstamping provides the firearms industry a bridge to ensure the protection of 2nd amendment rights while creating a partnership with law enforcement to help reduce illegal trafficking of small arms to criminal networks.