Posted on 08/24/2006 8:08:18 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Aug. 24 /U.S. Newswire/ -- With the support of forty-one police chiefs from around the state, the state senate today passed a bill (22-18) that will help police solve gun crimes and catch gun traffickers The bill, AB 352, requires that a new ballistics identification technology be required on all new semiautomatic handguns sold in California after 2008.
The new technology, microstamping, uses powerful lasers to make extremely precise, microscopic engravings on a handgun's firing pin or inside the firing chamber. These engravings reference the serial number of the handgun. When a bullet is fired from the handgun, the marks are transferred to the bullet casing. So when the police retrieve the bullet casing at a crime scene, they can quickly track down the legal owner of the handgun that fired it.
Assemblyman Paul Koretz (D-West Hollywood) is the lead sponsor on the bill, with the Coalition to Stop Handgun Violence, the organizational sponsor. A coalition of groups has been fighting to pass the bill since last year, including the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, Legal Community Against Violence, Women Against Gun Violence, and the California Million Mom March Chapters along with their parent organization, the Brady Campaign.
Griffin Dix, the president of the California Million Mom March Chapters, stated, "Currently, no arrest is made in approximately 45 percent of all homicides in California because police lack the evidence they need. This bill will help police solve crime by providing them with new and meaningful leads for solving handgun crimes."
"On behalf of our law enforcement supporters and victims of crime we work with every day across the nation, I applaud the California State Senate for embracing this innovative technology. I'm hoping the Governor will listen to a fellow Republican and sign this bill once it passes," said Paul Helmke, the new president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. Paul is a former three-term Republican Mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana.
As the nation's largest, non-partisan, grassroots organization leading the fight to prevent gun violence, the Brady Campaign, working with its dedicated network of Million Mom March Chapters, is devoted to creating an America free from gun violence, where all Americans are safe at home, at school, at work, and in our communities.
http://www.usnewswire.com/
Yeah, that'll be helpful. Instead of having victims shot with 9's that they might survive, we'll have victims being gunned down with .44 magnums.
Maybe they really don't care about crime at all.
What happens when you change out the firing pin? It doesn't cost much at all, depending on the weapon, and takes about 5 minutes.
what about the ten zillion guns on the street before '08? these liberals will never get it.
No they won't. They will use guns made before 2008. Besides its a California law, gun makers won't bother making auto loading handguns guns just for California. After 2008 if this law stands, you'll have to buy used autoloading handguns.
I guess criminals will just have to get their guns illegaly now.
They'll probably require that the new firing pin be put into a gun and used to produce a few cases for the state. This will make it slower and more expensive to sell the things and thus more expensive to buy. The fewer people who can afford firearms, the better as an armed population might be more dangerous to the state.
the better as an armed population might be more dangerous to the state.
But the guns could just come in illegally from out of state. So maybe they just want to make things more inconvenient/expensive out of spite.
This is what I find alarming, since when did police pass laws in California? When did it become a police state? Police are employees, law enforcers, not lawmakers. This is unconstitutional.
They will probably allow people to keep their pr-'08 semi-autos, but ban them from reselling them.
Manufacturers won't bother, and if they do, only the law abiding citizen will get screwed by the extra cost. I wonder how this will work for people moving into the state after 2008 with new guns bought in a different state? Add this on to the list of stupid laws made in 2006 by the loony left. It goes right under the one passed in Chicago yesterday banning ducks with big livers from over feeding them. Apparently it's cruel to eat fat ducks.
I'm guessing this hasn't passed the Cali House yet?
Oh my gosh. How stupid can these nuts get. What is to prevent criminals from tearing down the gun and replacing or altering the pin. There is nothing in this gun industry that cannot be altered and will be. Another stupid way to increase the cost of a gun. And that is not to mention that the criminal can pick up the brass. Wow!!!!!! Really bright.
Don't be silly Norm, I'm sure it will be illegal to alter the pin, so the guy who is about to rob, murder, etc won't want to break the law and change it. sarcasm/
Or they will somehow make it so it's very difficult to change again driving costs even higher so that gun makers won't make or sell them in Calif, so they'll win anyway.
That's all they need to do. Laws are not about results. They are about convincing voters that they are doing something to make them safer. Besides, if this makes the cost of a gun fractionally higher, a few people here and there will be stripped of the ability to afford a gun, and that's a good thing (as far as they are concerned).
Actually, if they're smart about it, they'll engrave it into the breech or bolt face so that it doesn't stamp itself so much as the lack of material there causes the casing to deform to the desired shape in that area. (Like the negative part of a mold)
75% of those on the most wanted list in LA are illegal aliens.
The LA times reports, that the FBI says that half of all gang members are illegals from Mexico and South America
29% of those in federal prison are illegal aliens.
They know perfectly well that this law will not do any of the things that they claim. The goal is to disarm the law-abiding citizen, one increment at a time.
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