microstamping
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editmicrostamping (uncountable)
- The use of laser technology to engrave a microscopic marking onto the tip of the firing pin and onto the breech face of a firearm, so that spent cartridges give information about the firearm.
- 2007 September 24, “An Opportunity for Mr. Schwarzenegger”, in New York Times[1]:
- The measure would make California the first state to require that all new semiautomatic weapons be equipped with technology known as microstamping, which imprints microscopic markings as a gun fires.