Parker Calls on State To Adopt Microstamping as Crime-Fighting Tool
BROOKLYN — State Senator Kevin Parker (D-Flatbush/Kensington/East Flatbush), Senate Democrats and Assembly members, along with family members who have lost loved ones to gun violence, joined forces at the state Capitol to urge the state Senate to include microstamping in this year’s budget proposal.
Microstamping, which connects shell casings from crime scenes to the first purchaser of a weapon, would provide law enforcement with a critical tool to solve gun crimes. Microstamping has passed the Assembly several times, but so far the Senate has been unwilling to approve it.