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/
Aw heck, they're just trying to get one-up on NJ's "Smart Gun" law. /sarc
The more absurd it is, the better the moonbats in California like it.
silly poster, police are always exempt from such gun crime laws.
Not exactly. Maryland had ballistic 'fingerprinting' where they required a spent case from every handgun sold in Maryland. Supposedly all the fired cases would be entered into a database for matching with future crime brass.
That technology was shown to be deficient and has mostly been dropped. This is the next step, where instead of relying on the various random markings generated by firing a gun, a specific marker is used to stamp the brass.
Still a huge joke. They will have to ban all revolvers at the same time, and most handgun makers will forego the CA market rather than submit to the changes. Another back door gun ban.
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.
Your correct, death by a thousand cuts. Eventually the only ones with guns will be bad guys and then guns will be really bad.
Either that or ALL handguns will be manufactured to California specs (same as automobiles are now), then we will all have those imprinted firing pins in our new weapons. It's cheaper to tool up to run everything one way, than to have a separate manufacturing models. It'll make it easier for other states to pass the same restrictions, seeing as the system will already be in place.
Bought a new gun lately? There are only a few states that mandate selling fired casings with new pistols, but every manufacturer sells them that way in every store in the country. This is truly a slippery slope scenario, and we need to fight it for all it's worth.
So the red states will pass a federal law which says you can not prohibit the ownership of guns without this absudity.
There has to be a federal pre-emption here somewhere.
I think it is just california politicians who are afraid of voters.
or they will just stop making the product which is what Calif socialists want.
The current guns skyrocket in price, manufacturers stop making them.
federal prohibition without federal prohibition. Second amendment repealed by California alone.
You may have left california, but california is comming to you by fiat of law.
You did not vote for California politicians, you did not support any california programs, but they are going to change you life whether you like it or not.
They don't care about isolated people in the boondocks of flyover country, they only care about those in the blue zones.
this will increase the regulation about firing pins making the PINS so expesive as to make your gun useless.
This is about regulation based outlawing.
This is an effort to de-facto repeal the second amendment.
An EXTREME taking in the constitutional sense of the word.
With the support of forty-one police chiefs from around the state
Once again for those who haven't been listening, the police are not on the side of individual rights. They're just like any other government bureaucrats when taken en mass. They want helpless sheep to fleece.
Paul Helmke was recently voted out as Mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana. He was a loser looking for something to do and he came up with this. I went to high school with the pr*ck. He was an elitist "sosh" type even then. May his jaws lock up...SSZ
Key distinction
Once again for those who haven't been listening, the politically appointed police chiefs are not on the side of individual rights. They're just like any other government bureaucrats when taken en mass. They want helpless sheep to fleece.
Politicians prefer unarmed peasants
You can think that if you want, and I'm sure there are individual police who are pro rights, but the majority of them aren't going to refuse the order to confiscate guns when it comes. Look at New orleans. It wasn't the politically appointed chiefs who were committing armed robbery of law abiding citizens and depriving them of their consitiutional right.
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