Of course they do
The ABA supports microstamping law. Why wouldn’t they? Bad law increases opportunity for legal fees.
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October 8th, 2010 at 11:15 am
I think you’re actually being a little too cynical here; the ABA probably hasn’t considered that at all. They’re probably doing it because they’ve been co-opted as the “Liberal Advocacy Group, Lawyers Edition,” and that’s probably where the reasoning stopped.
October 8th, 2010 at 11:29 am
Another reason I let my ABA membership lapse.
October 8th, 2010 at 1:49 pm
Just a thought, but in theory (and I know all efforts to track firearms are evil, but putting that aside) couldn’t it both help to identify criminals and exonerate the wrongly accused? Seems like more evidence to narrow down suspects. I could see how a lawyer might think its a good thing.
But I’m sure something more sinister is behind their support.
October 8th, 2010 at 2:35 pm
Do they also support 24/7 GPS monitoring of citizen locations, convicted felon and law abiding alike, to help “Identify criminals and exonerate wrongfully accused?” Because that technology is available, and would likely work better than microstamping from the perspective of convictions vs exonerations.
Both ideas force the law abiding to bear a burden that should belong only to criminals.
October 8th, 2010 at 3:48 pm
Actually they probably do support 24-7 gps monitoring. Giving them bad ideas mikee….
October 8th, 2010 at 3:54 pm
I agree with clamp.
I dropped out in 1992 when the ABA had Hillary at the podium at its national convention (in San Francisco, appropriately).
Hillary introduced the keynote speaker, Anita Hill.
This was a couple of months before the 1992 election and the ABA, being the objective, nonpartisan professional organization that it is, had no reluctance whatsoever to give the spouse (I think she’s a wife, but I’m not sure and I don’t care to investigate the matter) the second longest podium time at its convention.
Right now the ABA is a liberal, agenda-driven de facto PAC which exists to lend its vaunted imprimatur to causes which invariably tug at the strings of my heart (e.g. free abortion on demand, and, in this case, micro-stamping brass).
It also exists to oppose tort reform and other evils which threaten society as a whole and, in particular, the very existence of lawyers who advertise on buses, billboards and the Yellow Pages.
I dropped out of the Tennessee Bar Association because it was following a similar path, in addition to be a group of shameless sycophants to the judiciary.
October 8th, 2010 at 5:12 pm
Sean: I wouldn’t be surprised if the ABA thought that.
The problems with microstamping are not so much that “it lets them track guns” (thought that is a problem in microstamping regimes that require a central database, which is probably most or all of the suggested ones), but:
A) it’s unreliable (in that natural wear or replacement of parts will make it stop “working”)
B) wouldn’t slow anyone half-determined down for more than a few seconds; a file or the like easily “fixes” that little problem for any criminal who happens to have a compliant gun
C) it increases costs, often significantly
D) it’s just a way for the guy who has the microstamping business (and patents?) to rent-seek.
B and D have always been the big sticking points for me, but C is nothing to sneeze at either.
Now, if there was no database involved (ie, no “send the microstamp number to the police for permanent storage at sale or transfer time”), and it was so cheap it was almost free (say, on the order of $.50 a gun)?
I wouldn’t have a problem with it, really – since in practice all it’d do is make it easier in a few cases to say “casing X was fired from gun Y”.
Since criminals are mostly stupid, a lot of them would never clean up the firing pins – or would do it wrong and break the stolen gun…
October 8th, 2010 at 6:54 pm
Well, I’m a recovering attorney.
I’m a member of the bar, but stopped being an ABA member about twenty years ago. At the risk of oversimplifying things, IMAO the ABA is basically a liberal political lobby.
October 10th, 2010 at 10:02 am
The problem is, 99% of laywers give the other 1% a bad name (told to me by a lawyer).
October 10th, 2010 at 10:04 am
Make that 99% of LAWYERS. Just washed my hands and can’t do a thing with them.
October 11th, 2010 at 9:39 pm
Left the ABA 20 years ago. The ABA had almost every lawyer in the country and then became just another leftist advocacy group. I left over guns, capital punishment and abortion.Today, I consider it a meaningless, neutered organization.
The Tennessee Bar Association: I’m still in but I’m hearing noises from the same left direction.