Posted on 06/03/2005 2:18:30 AM PDT by calcowgirl
SACRAMENTO — California lawmakers Thursday voted to require weapons manufacturers to ensure that all bullets and cartridges are branded with distinctive serial numbers.
Contained in two measures that are intended to help law enforcement solve cases, the proposal would be unique among states if approved by the Legislature and signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The gun industry said the proposals were impractical and would force weapons makers to either write off the huge California market or adopt practices that would greatly increase the cost of their wares.
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On the weapons measures, though a number of law enforcement officials backed them, there was strong opposition from Republican lawmakers, manufacturers and gun groups. Opponents said both measures would be useless in tracking most crimes back to their sources, because few criminals obtain their weapons through legal channels.
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One of the proposals, from state Atty. Gen. Bill Lockyer and approved in the Senate, 21-14, would require manufacturers, starting in 2007, to stamp bullets sold in California with a identification number that police could trace to the store where the ammunition was sold.
"We can put individualized serial numbers on cartons of yogurt, on almost everything in society, with very little additional cost," said Sen. Joe Dunn (D-Santa Ana), who sponsored the measure, SB 357.
The second measure, which was approved by the Assembly, 41-37, would mandate that all new semiautomatic handguns, starting in 2007, include technology that would stamp a distinguishing serial number onto a cartridge when it is fired. Assemblyman Paul Koretz (D-West Hollywood), the sponsor of AB 352, said the markings "won't always lead to the criminal, but it will create leads" for police.
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Well duh!
Seems to me that this will simply increase criminal activity in stolen ammo.....that points to the innocent, but those with deep pockets....
Hacksaw CA off and send it adrift into the Pacific!
Didn't something similar to this at Lexington and Concord cause a lot of trouble?
and they will have a lot of blind sheeple to help advance there cause.
Hmmmm........real genius stuff at work here in the CA legislature....
"every single bullet manufacturer should cease all sales in california, including to police."
I expect that. Barrett won't sell or repair PRK police rifles. It just won't be cost effective to sell into PRK.
If that is true then the Nation Guard would be in violation.
This is sickening! At what point are people going to stand up and say enough is enough!
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