Posted on 01/24/2014 1:25:25 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
One of the nation’s largest gun manufacturers won’t sell its newest firearm in California because of a state law that requires firearms to imprint a unique stamp on bullet casings.
Smith & Wesson said Thursday it would not sell a semiautomatic pistol in California because of the law, signed in 2007 by then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) and implemented last year. It’s the second big gun manufacturer to pull some of its products out of California in the last several months.
The gun companies said the law, which requires each firearm to imprint a so-called “microstamp” on bullet casings, impose unbearable cost burdens. The manufacturers also said the microstamps don’t reliably achieve the goal of providing evidence to law enforcement authorities.
In a statement released to the Los Angeles Times, Smith & Wesson CEO James Debney said the law would prevent Californians from having “access to the best products with the latest innovations.”
Only newly designed semiautomatic handguns and updated or modified older models are covered under the 2007 law. The microstamp would leave a tiny etching identifying the make, model and serial number of the weapon that fired a bullet. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
I read an article recently that hypothesized that America was in a liberalism bubble. It suggested that the recent elections of out-right card carrying communists in New York and Washington state indicated the bubble was about to burst. I certainly hope they’re right and California rejoins the union as a sane state.
So much for the second ammendment
But will they stop selling to LEO in California? Stop servicing LEO guns as well?
So, S&W, how’d kowtowing to the lefties work out for ya?
How about a law that dictates that bullets must have the name of an anti-liberty socialist on them?
Stop selling the guns to the police in California. Let them try to find them elsewhere.
“...But will they stop selling to LEO in California? Stop servicing LEO guns as well?...”
The article I read on Fox said that LEO organizations are exempt from having to have the microtechnology. However, EVERY gun manufacturer needs to quit selling in CA to EVERYONE; LEOs included and quit providing parts and service.
Just isolate the miserable communist POS completely.
Having all the gun manufacturers stop shipping to CA may have been the goal, consequences or no.
***Having all the gun manufacturers stop shipping to CA may have been the goal, consequences or no.***
Back in 1982, the VOTERS rejected Prop 15, to ban the sale of handguns in Cali.
Since that day, the politicians have been trying to find all sorts of ways to get around the WILL OF THE VOTERS, one bite at a time.
Actually, the article is, as usual for these types, misleading. S&W is still submitting it’s handguns to the state for “safety” testing, but the state is refusing to take them as they do not have the microstamp feature.
The nuts running this state got what they wanted.
That’s the way it should be. Anyone organizing anything?
LEO’s are exempt from the legislation.
“LEO’s are exempt from the legislation.”
That does not mean S&W has to do business with them. Let’s pressure CA from all over. Barrett stopped servicing their rifles in CA.
The worst thing is, the pigs are EXEMPT from this law. Why don’t THEY want the people to know who shot them? And if it makes the guns less reliable for them, TOUGH. If the people have to live with unreliable guns, so can the pigs.
“But will they stop selling to LEO in California? Stop servicing LEO guns as well?”
The answer, I hope, is YES!!
“The article I read on Fox said that LEO organizations are exempt from having to have the microtechnology.”
SO: Only the PEOPLE will be stuck with defective guns, not the pigs!
“LEO’s are exempt from the legislation.”
I would love to see a law requiring LEOs to abide by the same gun laws as non-leos. In NY that would mean no mags over 10 rounds, no “assault weapons”, no full auto, etc. They would pizz their pants like they did when the law first passed and they werent exempt. They fixed that QUICK.
“If the people have to live with unreliable guns, so can the pigs.”
Pigs? That’s hippie talk.
The answer, I hope, is YES!!
That's exactly what Ronnie Barrett did!
Mark
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