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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.
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Where are you getting this stat? I live in NYC and I can tell you for a fact, not here, not by a long shot, not even close.
"Am I wrong, or would a criminal only have to pick up his casings to foil this new law?"
You're right, but I don't see a lot of drive-bys coming back to police up their brass.
Most shootings don't happen in the privacy of a home. They happen on the street and people run away. They don't have time to grab the casings. But this is moot because all the guns on the street used in crimes are illegal. OK, 99.9% of them.
Sorry, missed your stats. I guess Cali is far different from NYC in that respect then. I work in the Brooklyn system and I almost never see illegals charged with serious crimes, DUI sometimes but that's about it.
This is nothing more than incremental backdoor gun control.
Having gone to high school in LA not all that long ago, I can tell you that some of the driveby artists saw this one coming.
Instead of leaning outside the car and shooting their weapons at full arm extension, they'll simply keep the gun inside the vehicle and use the car as a brass catcher (which is what some of the brighter ones were doing as early as 92). Assuming they care at all, that is.
As the nation's largest, non-partisan, grassroots organization leading the fight to prevent gun violence, the Brady Campaign "<
Uh, if it's non-partisan why is he selling his (R) to push an agenda?
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However, when viewed in the light of what it's true purpose is, i.e.: the slow strangulation of firearms ownership by the law-abiding, it all makes perfect sense.
The only vexing thing here is that as goes California libs...so goes the rest of the country if it falls into lib hands. Liberalism really is a mental disorder.
Joe, I have been in the RKBA wars since the mid-sixties, and one thing that drives me bats about the anti-2nd Amendement moonbats ( and most of the more virulent Left today ) is the way they never quit agitating.
It doesn't matter how asinine, absurd, unworkable or unconstitutional the "scheme de jure" is- as long as it gives them something to promote, to chatter endlessly about, to chat up at cocktail parties or on TV- they're 100% for it.
You know, they pretty much banned semi-autos out there and now they want ballistic imaging? What good is ballistic imaging (rhetorical) it the majority of the guns don't eject the casings?
Better yet, use that 1911 money for a moving van headed eastward to Free America.
This is incremental gun banning, pure and simple. It won't effect CA's crime rate or percentage of solved murders one iota.
I assume it is a gang thing.
Hmmm..didn't the state of Maryland try something like this and had to admit it was a complete bust, and a waste of millions of dollars?
It sure does.
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