New York State democrats pulled the bill mandating firearms microstamping (marking spent casings with a unique identifying number) after it became clear the bill wouldn’t clear the Senate. The move is widely perceived as a face-saving gesture for New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, whose Mayors Against Illegal Guns has been crusading for the legislation like a misguided Richard the Lion Heart. “Today Senator Martin Golden and his Republican colleagues struck a victory for gun criminals and a blow to law enforcement,” Senate Democratic spokesman Austin Shafran announced, as reported by capitoltonight.com. “It is a disgrace that a former cop took a walk from the chamber and refused to stand up for law enforcement and let politics get in the way of public safety.” Bloomberg also released a statement, accusing nay=sayers of listening to the “special interests instead of the 100 mayors and 83 police chiefs and law enforcement organizations across New York State who supported it.” Meanwhile, pro-gun groups are jubilant. As well they should be.

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Brett Solomon got his first taste of the magazine world covering car electronics for CarSound & Performance Magazine. He landed the job by being noticed for designing high-end car audio systems. Which was fine by him because there was no way he was going to pass the third level of calculus toward an electrical engineering degree at University of Delaware. Not with those DuPont scholars around campus, he’ll take Journalism over Engineering, thank you very much. He has since written for a number of publications (think in-flight journalism) that lack the chutzpah of Robert Farago, and having all of those milquetoast reviews pent up in his system now allows his pen to spit fire. We’ll, he is just not that mean but happy to tell the truth…and the truth is most firearms are fun!

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