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/
Hey, gun manufacturers - time to stop selling guns to California. Especially the police in California.
Nothing that a few seconds with fine emery paper or a Scotchbrite pad won't fix. What a bunch of ignorant fools.
What an incredibly stupid, wasteful law.
Are they aure about this. Why do I think they don't really care about solving crime?
The new technology, microstamping, uses powerful lasers to make extremely precise,...
Maybe because they really just want to make it more expensive to manufacture, and therefore own firearms?
Leftists are scum.
Won't have much impact on drive by shootings, robberies and the majority of gun related crimes.
But the libs will feel better for having done something (even if its wrong).
Cut to East LA Street Scene:
Joe Gangbanger: Hey, man, I need a piece so I can get paid tonite!
Fred Strawman Purchase: Sorry, Joe, but all I have is pre-2008 guns that don't imprint ballistics. I can't sell them to you illegally!
Joe Gangbanger: Oh, man, that sucks the head cheese! Now I'm gonna have to get a job at Burger King if I want some pocket cash!
The following fantasy was brought to you by the California Legislature, the Brady Campaign, the Democratic Party, the UN and other similar cranial-rectal inversion people around the globe.
I'm about as dumb as a rock with this new technology, but somebody please tell me how many times does a bad guy leave a casing at the crime scene?
2nd... If I were a bad guy, what would prevent me from grabbing a handful of casings from the range, and scattering them all over the crime scene?
This is all a plot by the manufacturers of brass-catchers.
---Hey, gun manufacturers - time to stop selling guns to California. Especially the police in California.---
Took the words out of my mouth.
Since I live in California, I'd better hurry up and buy that 1911 before the price goes even higher.
Answer One:
Pretty often
Answer Two:
Nothing
But the real silliness is that the majority of drive-bys are committed by stolen weapons, so the ID will lead the police back to someone who will immediately (truthfully or not) claim the gun was stolen. By the way, there's another bill that will make it a crime to not report the theft of your gun.
Sometimes, though, crook's attempt to outsmart the system is what catches them. One of the primary sources for finding hit and run drivers is looking for people who call the cops half an hour after the crime and report their car stolen.
Since an extremely high percentage of those wanted in violent crime are illegal aliens, how will this help catch those? Will they then be deported or just us gringos.
Which is why you'll see them out there, every night, getting gang-bangers off the streets..... or not.
All the BGs will just use revolvers...
They just can't get it thru their heads that CRIMMINALS DO NOT OBEY THE LAW.
(In 35% TinFoilHat mode) You know this could be some sort of attempt to pay S&W back for their HUD collaboration - it'll make S&W revolvers more popular. (or so they think)
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