Andrew Cuomo is quietly pushing microstamping. On his campaign website, under Issues and Agenda, is his manifesto, “The New NY Agenda: A Plan for Action.” On page 137:
“… We must keep our communities safe. Gun violence remains one our most serious problems. We must enact commonsense gun safety laws, such as requiring the microstamping of guns. Microstamping — a pro-law enforcement, low cost method of expanding the ability of police to identify guns used in illegal activities — would require all new semiautomatic handguns to be equipped with microscopic identifying markings, which are transferred to each cartridge case when the firearm is fired …”