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Gun Microstamping & 5 Huge Problems

Gun microstamping is getting publicity of late and it s on the legislative agenda in California (AB 1471). In a recent article (see reference 1 below), gun microstamping was showcased as being a big help to law enforcement efforts to identify guns used in crimes. Obviously, law abiding citizens would like to see law enforcement officers have great tools to help identify criminals and the guns used by them. However, gun microstamping is not the answer.


Put simply, gun microstamping is a technology whereby a handgun stamps a very small identification mark on each shell casing when fired in that handgun. The idea is that law enforcement would be able to collect these shell casings (complete with identifying information)

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at the scene of the crime allowing them to trace the gun back to the criminal. This sounds ok until you start thinking about it logically.


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Helping to Identify Gold Hallmarks

The first mark (KLd) is usually the Makers or Manufacturers mark. Sometimes it could be the Store Mark (like SH) for Samuel Hill Jewelers… This doesn’t make any difference to the Hallmark so you can generally ignore it.


The next mark was an ‘F’ which is the Date letter.


The next is a Crown, which is the ‘Quality’ Mark which was introduced for 18ct and 22ct gold in 1798 and has been used ever since.


The 22 indicates the gold quality being 22 carat gold.


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Gold Jewelry Hallmarking Secrets Revealed

We should be familiar with the BASIC hallmarks mentioned on the website. It might pay you to read them again, just to bring you up to speed and ensure you have grasped the principles. If you have not yet had the chance to read them please go to the website listed below.


Let’s quickly remind ourselves where we should be regarding Hallmarks.


The first three marks mentioned before were:


1: The Makers mark


2: The Assay Office mark


3: The Quality mark


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How to Identify an L88 Corvette

Identifying a car can be a difficult task, and an L88 Corvette is no accept ion, the very first thing you have to look at, is the price of the car, in this day and age an L88 Corvette can easily run 100,000 dollars or more, and if you ve located an Corvette for sale and the person selling the car is representing it as an L88, and the price is low BEWARE of a scam right up front, these are very rare and hard to find cars, and even a wrecked one can run 30,000 dollars or more.


Now down to the brass tacks, the first thing that I would look at is the engine codes,

Gun Microstamping & 5 Huge Problems
...who stole the apple. 4) While it would be nice to be able to use a technology such as gun microstamping to help reduce criminal behavior it misses the mark by putting the focus on the gun rather than focusing ...
such as the RPO code and casting numbers to make sure that the engine is an L88, there are however some tell tail signs, keep in mind that not every L88 had the 3X2 carburetor option installed on it, this was an add on known as the L71 tri-power option, now an L88 is a 427 CID engine, that normally came with a single Holley 850 double pumper carburetor, so just because you don t see a tri-power set-up on the car does not mean that it s not an L88 427 car.


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