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Calif legislature pushes junk science again [micro-stamping pistol chambers!]
CCRKBA ^ | 5/21/07 | n/a

Posted on 05/23/2007 9:37:45 AM PDT by kiriath_jearim

For Immediate Release: May 21, 2007

AB 1471 REQUIRES MICROSTAMPING OF PISTOL CHAMBERS

AB 1471, sponsored by Assemblyman Mike Feuer (D-West Hollywood), would amend the current handgun “safety” act by requiring the chambers of all semi-automatic pistols sold in the state to have a unique serial number etched into the pistol’s chamber. Upon firing, the number would be imprinted on the cartridge case, thus allowing police to track the case back to the firearm’s registered owner.

Sounds like a simple, common sense crime-fighting tool, however… Most firearms used by criminals are stolen, and criminals don’t bother to register stolen guns. In fact, criminals are exempt from firearm registration by a U.S. Supreme Court decision (U.S. v Haynes, 1968). In addition to that, the technology is easily defeated in a number of ways: the etching can be marred or ground out, brass picked up at a firing range can be reloaded and used, steel cased-ammunition won’t take the imprint, etc.

This questionable and unproven technology is just another attempt to limit access to affordable handguns by gun control extremists in the state legislature. Industry sources estimate this will add as much as $150 to the cost of each handgun with microstamping. Where will it stop? Microstamping the chambers of ALL firearms next? What about revolvers? A $900 additional charge to stamp each separate chamber?

AB 1471 may come up for Assembly floor action as soon as Thursday, May 24th. You need to contact your Assemblyman or Assemblywoman ASAP and ask them to oppose this meaningless and wasteful legislation. If you have internet access, you can reach your Assemblyman at http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/yourleg.html

Your legislators’ telephone numbers are listed in the blue “Government” pages at the front of the telephone directory, under “State Government.”

If you don't live in California, pick a legislator or all of them, and call anyway. What starts in California will be coming to your state soon!

With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is one of the nation's premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in local communities throughout the United States. The Citizens Committee can be reached by phone at (425) 454-4911, on the internet at www.ccrkba.org or by email to InformationRequest@ccrkba.org.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: ab1471; banglist; callegislation

1 posted on 05/23/2007 9:37:50 AM PDT by kiriath_jearim
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To: kiriath_jearim

Think what they could do if they devoted this energy to tracking illegal aliens. Maybe micro stamping illegals would work, but I bet an ID card that you couldn’t buy for $10 on the street would be a step up. Or maybe a fence here and there ...

Such a waste


2 posted on 05/23/2007 9:40:44 AM PDT by Tarpon
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To: kiriath_jearim
Upon firing, the number would be imprinted on the cartridge case, thus allowing police to track the case back to the firearm’s registered owner.

There's just too much to say ...

3 posted on 05/23/2007 9:40:46 AM PDT by Inquisitive1 (I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance - Socrates)
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One of the items that came up with this debate last year, was the fact that many sheriff departments and other law enforcement, use prisoner work details to pick up the brass at the law enforcement shooting ranges. Other ranges allow brass scavengers to come on to the ranges and “clean up” the brass.

Wait until they start tracing all these casings from crime sites back to law enforcement officers — it would be almost funny if it wasn’t so serious.

4 posted on 05/23/2007 9:46:05 AM PDT by ElkGroveDan (When toilet paper is a luxury, you have achieved communism.)
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Wow like that would not be hard to remove. Don’t you people have anything better to do, like gay pride parades?


5 posted on 05/23/2007 9:48:01 AM PDT by stm (Believe 1% of what you hear in the drive-by media and take half of that with a grain of salt)
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To: ElkGroveDan
If this goes like most disarmament bills, law enforcement will be exempt.

Plus, the cop’s guns would only get microstamp when the department replaces a handgun with a new one.

Likewise the other millions of civilian handguns- the microstamping would only come with a new one.

Unless they make it illegal to have a non-microstamped gun, but I don’t think that would pass.

6 posted on 05/23/2007 9:51:58 AM PDT by DBrow
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***Upon firing, the number would be imprinted on the cartridge case, thus allowing police to track the case back to the firearm’s registered owner.***

And lets not forget that some scrap dealers sell tons of empty fired brass to professional reloaders. You can buy it at many gun stores. Just look at the headstamps on many of these reloaded fifty round boxes and you will see why micro stamping is like chasing a dream. It won’t work.

7 posted on 05/23/2007 10:08:50 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (When someone burns a cross on your lawn the best firehose is an AK-47.)
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Idiots.


8 posted on 05/23/2007 10:11:59 AM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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Somebody’s been watching too much Judge Dredd.


9 posted on 05/23/2007 10:22:45 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: kiriath_jearim

Unlike Lee Harvey, I would take my shell casings with me.


10 posted on 05/23/2007 10:31:36 AM PDT by Niteranger68 (Nosotros no hablamos espaƱol.)
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They push this kind of garbage through in California in the name of "fighting crime" yet these are the same liberals that tell us we can't enforce our immigration laws. They want to make it difficult for law-abiding people to buy a safe and reliable gun yet they can't secure our borders. All this shows where their priorities lie and its not about putting the interest of the American people first.

Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

11 posted on 05/23/2007 12:12:59 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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Come on over and join the "Virtual Rally".
12 posted on 05/23/2007 12:21:33 PM PDT by Redcloak (The 2nd Amendment isn't about sporting goods.)
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To: kiriath_jearim

Upon voting for a Democrat, the letter “S” would be permanently embossed upon the finger.


13 posted on 05/23/2007 2:37:57 PM PDT by Sender ("America is at that awkward stage..." - Claire Wolfe)
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