Speaker Mariano Appointed the Microstamp Patent Holder to a State Commission?

[GOALJim]

Speaker Mariano Appointed the Microstamp Patent Holder to a State Commission?

Special Legislative Commission on Emerging Firearm Technology

Yet another piece of the now infamous Chapter 135 has come to light. Section 148 of the “Devil’s Snare” created “Special Legislative Commission on Emerging Firearm Technology” The stated purpose of the Commission is to “…study and investigate emerging firearm technology.”

According to the enacting language, the thirteen-member Commission is to focus heavily on “microstamping” technology. One member of the Commission is Todd LiZotte. Mr. Lizotte is the co-holder of at least four different patents on microstamping with a Orest Ohar.

Lizotte also has his hands in TacLabs and PinRecon.

“PinRecon™, a division of TACLABS, Inc, provides access to intelligence. The goal is to take this intelligence product and make it actionable with the data provided by Microstamping. Microstamping entails tracking criminal activity through unique codes on cartridges recovered from crime scenes.”

From anyone’s perspective this should be a blatant conflict of interest under Chapter 268A, Section 6. (For the record, commission members are considered state employees for the sake of conflicts.)


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The Moronic Myths of Microstamping

Section 148 of Chapter 135 – “(b) There is hereby established, pursuant to section 2A of chapter 4 of the General Laws, a special legislative commission to study and investigate emerging firearm technology.” According to the enacting language, the thirteen-member Commission is to focus heavily on “microstamping” technology.

 

[pastera]

If not for corrupt politicians, we would have no politicians.

 

[TLB]

Conflict of interest is not even in the vocab of mAss pols.

 

[not new guy]

This can’t be the first time anybody has flagged this, is it?

 

[CrackPot]

Conflict of interest is not even in the vocab of mAss pols.

Its right next to ethic violations on the list of things they dont care about. Hell, Deval Patrick declined to appoint anyone to head the state ethics commission for YEARS. This meant that ethics complaints went to the commission, got investigated, and then sat in a file drawer because without a head of the commission, there was no way to act on them or reach finalization.

Conflict of Interest would be an ethics commission investigation so I would not hold my breath.

Back when I was a chairman of my towns select board, we had a school board member get the superintendent of schools to pay for his non-special needs daughters tuition to cushing academy (expensive private school) out of the special education school budget. MASSIVE ethics violation. I (and the head of the finance committee) filed an ethics complaint with the state. It took 4 years to reach the obvious conclusion that they had both violated state ethics laws and they were both fined. But the school board member had already left the state so it didnt do much good there and the superintendent was already terminal on his contract so did no good there either. The delay was because of no head of the ethics commission...

I love MA

 

[Dennis in MA]

I'm sure it's because of his attention to detail when the State Auditor starts her audit on the Legislature.

Oh wait. . . . .

 

[Toast]

I don't know, I can't think this is any worse than the governor finding that, after a nationwide search, the best candidate to be a new state Supreme Judicial Court judge had been right under her nose.

 

[StevieP]

Microstamping entails tracking criminal activity through unique codes on cartridges recovered from crime scenes.”

so now the gang bangers will just switch to revolvers. or scatter some range brass around the crime scene. or just file the tip of the firing pin of their semi-automatic. or just use an older gun that doesn't stamp the brass. or just use an onion bag and piece of electrical tape to catch the brass and take it with them. seems there are a million workarounds to this

 

[Reptile]

so now the gang bangers will just switch to revolvers. or scatter some range brass around the crime scene. or just file the tip of the firing pin of their semi-automatic. or just use an older gun that doesn't stamp the brass. or just use an onion bag and piece of electrical tape to catch the brass and take it with them. seems there are a million workarounds to this

There might be a run on onion bags!!!

Maybe I should buy some onions!!!

 

[sbhaven]

seems there are a million workarounds to this

And the people pushing microstamping know this. Usually the few people pushing microstamping have a financial interest in it being implemented. Or they simply want to make guns more expensive, assuming the gun manufactuers will implement microstamping and continue to sell their wares in a state that mandates such a failed easily circumvented technology. More expensive means likely fewer being purchased which the gun grabbers think will mean less guns to be stolen and less guns on the street.

 

[HorizontalHunter]

I don't know, I can't think this is any worse than the governor finding that, after a nationwide search, the best candidate to be a new state Supreme Judicial Court judge had been right under her nose.

And the audit of the legislative branch is scheduled for when???????

 

[Reptile]

And the people pushing microstamping know this. Usually the few people pushing microstamping have a financial interest in it being implemented. Or they simply want to make guns more expensive, assuming the gun manufactuers will implement microstamping and continue to sell their wares in a state that mandates such a failed easily circumvented technology. More expensive means likely fewer being purchased which the gun grabbers think will mean less guns to be stolen and less guns on the street.

This would be a huge win for the antis.

It would ban Glocks.

 

[StevieP]

how would microstamping ever solve a crime? So they recover a stamped shell casing at a crime scene. stamp tells them the original legal purchaser, who's long since sold the gun, and/or it's been stolen and/or re-sold on the black market. how often are lawfully purchased (and still owned by said purchaser) guns used when committing crimes?

 

[HorizontalHunter]

how would microstamping ever solve a crime? So they recover a stamped shell casing at a crime scene. stamp tells them the original legal purchaser, who's long since sold the gun, and/or it's been stolen and/or re-sold on the black market. how often are lawfully purchased (and still owned by said purchaser) guns used when committing crimes?

It won’t.

It will make it more expensive for gun owners though and certainly make a bunch of money for the guy who holds the patent so it will make the state happy.

 

[Drix]

how would microstamping ever solve a crime? So they recover a stamped shell casing at a crime scene. stamp tells them the original legal purchaser, who's long since sold the gun, and/or it's been stolen and/or re-sold on the black market. how often are lawfully purchased (and still owned by said purchaser) guns used when committing crimes?

Well it gives an investigative start.

Let's say there's a murder and you recover the gun with a legible serial number and one where you recovered a 80% without.

If you're looking at physical evidence you have an extra start point- the last owner of the gun in your database (we will assume MIRCS). The owner is going to be questioned, maybe he sold it out of state- ok ffl booked it in and out, so where? Who was the buyer, go to that buyer, own it or sell it, to who? Don't remember? Where were you at this day and time? Can you prove that?

Meanwhile the 80% has nothing to go on but DNA and prints (same as other gun), but unless your info is on file, that's a dead end.

Now, realistically, we'd all brush that microstamp away wirh two swipes of a file, but that's a different story.

 

[Dennis in MA]

If you have an onion bag and a giggle-switch, does that make it a Funyon bag?????

 

[sig shooter]

Has anyone filed a conflict of interest complaint for shits and giggles?