One of the goals of such schemes is not only to require expensive and needless modifications and certifications, but to limit the time period that such are accepted (which implies that a safe design somehow becomes unsafe after the passage of a couple of years) and to change the requirements frequently so that prior certifications become worthless.
When the micro-stamping requirement kicks in soon, I believe that every NEW certification requires the feature and every OLD certification will expire, removing the prior gun from the "NOT UNSAFE" list.
It's worth noting that the Dix case, I believe it was, that provided the cover for passing these onerous laws, was of a young man who "accidently" killed another person by pointing a gun at him and pulling the trigger. The gun in question ALREADY HAD a device to indicate that there was a round in the chamber. But because it wasn't a multi-color flashing neon sigh which reads "LOADED GUN", it apparently wasn't sufficient.
I have been hoping that the Seecamp company would make a Kalifornia legal version of their 380. The modification needed is identical to what they already did for the LWS 32. But the likelihood that they will do that is now decreased because whatever trouble and expense they endure will expire soon and they would have to create yet another set of Kalifornia legal guns to continue sales.
There's a limit to just how profitable guns are and if the regulatory costs exceed the profit, the sales will stop. That is the goal of the anti-gunners.
All too true, and a major part of the reason I left Kali for FL.