California Bill Aims To Jump-Start ‘Microstamps’ On Handguns
LAPPL News Watch
March 24, 2021
Gun control advocates are making a new attempt to force the gun industry to comply with California’s unique law requiring individual identifiers on all bullet casings, a mandate that has been toothless since it was approved in 2007.
The law requires gun manufacturers to adopt microstamping technology on new types of handguns introduced in California. The intent was to imprint a unique set of microscopic characters on all cartridge casings when weapons are fired, linking bullet casings to the guns that discharged them.
Gun makers have said the technology is unreliable and to get around the law have not introduced new gun models in the state since the law was passed.
New legislation would expand the law to include weapons used by law enforcement, which are currently exempt. The thinking is that forcing police officers into the marketplace would prompt manufacturers to improve technology so they can sell the weapons to members of law enforcement.
The bill by Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel of (D-Encino), co-founder of the Legislature’s Gun Violence Prevention Working Group, would add law enforcement starting in 2023.
3 comments:
Here, let me sprinkle a little more Bullshit on that Bullshit.
Why was law enforcement exempt in the 1sr place.
Stupid law, but it is Ca.
I think it is a GREAT idea. We can then hear police departments SCREAM because they have to guy revolvers (which are exempt) for their cops. Then people may appreciate how lame-ass this law really is.
Of course the ACTUAL PURPOSE of the law was to fuck up gun sales in CA. It has NOTHING to do with providing investigative information for solving crimes.
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