[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6058]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      MICROSTAMPING LIMITS CHOICE

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, tonight I introduced H. Res. 731 expressing 
Congress' opposition to laws requiring that microstamping technology be 
included in handguns.
  Time and time again, studies have shown that microstamping technology 
has failed to achieve any reliable effectiveness.
  A study by the University of California, Davis--certainly no hotbed 
of support for the Second Amendment--recommended against imposing 
microstamping requirements, and the creator of the technology 
participated in a study which determined it did not work reliably.
  Mr. Speaker, the only real impact of microstamping is to increase 
costs and make it more difficult for Americans to exercise their Second 
Amendment rights. Unfortunately, that is the true intent of these laws, 
not to increase safety, but to simply make it more difficult for law-
abiding citizens to own firearms.
  Even the Ninth Circuit Court agreed--the most overturned court in the 
country--just today that laws intended solely to prevent Americans from 
exercising their rights are unconstitutional.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to reject these laws and join me in 
standing up for the Second Amendment and join on to H. Res. 731.

                          ____________________