Posted on 06/01/2007 10:08:10 AM PDT by rellimpank
The California state Assembly Tuesday voted to require all new semi-automatic pistols sold in the state to automatically stamp information on shell casings that could help police track down violent criminals.
The California measure, which still has to pass the state Senate, marks an intriguing new development in the war against crime because, unlike some gun-control measures, it doesn't restrict law-abiding citizens' ability to own or carry firearms. Instead, the measure would require that all new semi-automatic pistols sold in California after 2010 contain a microscopic laser etching that will stamp the gun's make, model and serial number on at least two places on the shell casing of a bullet every time the weapon is fired
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Big, big secret to speed loading the revolver.
Don’t catch the casings.
Hardest thing to teach yourself. Throw the boom, push the plunger, let em drop.
You have no idea how many people reflexively catch those stupid things.
If you train properly, you can be ejecting your shells while lining up your new clip.
Complicated, sure.
But then I never have to deal with a stove pipe or a no-load either.
so I guess you could leave someone elses shell casings around at the scene of a crime and let them take the blame
Please post some articles where AUTOMATIC weapons were used.
....wtf?
People actually try to catch the casings???? I’ve never seen anyone try to do that, not even at the range.
As for me, give me an automatic with a big magazine. I’ve seen revolvers FTE on the range, too - and the clearance drill for a jammed auto is a lot faster than trying to get a stuck casing out of the cylinder on a revolver.
Of course, the best option (IMHO) is the “New York Reload”.
As a former LA resident who witnessed several such incidents, they were using illegal full-auto weapons.
It’s impossible to post articles on such because to the LA Times, *all* weapons are full-auto assault weapons.
As to the combat situation.
I was taught that your side arm was not an offensive weapon that you took on an army with.
But then again, I wasn’t in the situation that the boys are in in Iraq and Afgan. Different kind of war I guess.
If I was even 10 years younger, I know where I’d be today, and it ain’t here.
Riots happen in American cities, too - and then you have similar problems.
“People actually try to catch the casings???? I’ve never seen anyone try to do that, not even at the range.”
Oh yea, I have to look it up, old hat now. The FBI listed real situations where cops got shot and killed and were found with a hand full of casings.
I know that every once in a while you will see some one do just that. Its something you have to train yourself out of.
True stuff! Hard to believe, but true.
This bill has nothing at all to do with crime reduction. Only the truly ignorant will expect that this crime reducing measure will in any way achieve that. It has everything to do with making gun ownership more expensive and more difficult for responsible, law abiding gun owners and the real bonus is that it gives so called 'law enforcement' another excuse to confiscate guns and make criminals out of citizens thereby preventing them from owning guns legally again. All part of the master plan to disarm all citizens being carried out by those that know exactly what they are doing and their ignorant tools that think they are actually accomplishing something good.
That had to be a *long* time ago....
Of course, I can see it - the police range master telling them to catch their brass so it’s not on the ground on the range...
Goes to show that you fight like you train.
The real leader in idiotic gun laws is New York, which has been in violation of basic civil rights via the Sullivan Laws since 1921.
Good Lord, now just look for the deaf gang bangers as primo suspects.
It was back when the whole Dirty Harry thing with the .357 and .44mag craze. Right before everyone went to semis.
The speed loader itself was a problem. You had to train yourself to drop the stupid thing after twisting the release. And that’s hard to do when you have to pay for them.
Being proficient with a revolver is an artform. Anyone can hang with a semi.
Ooopps did it again, standing by fora new blast of flame.
Yes no doubt to remove the chamber engraving will be legally the same as filing off the s/n.
Carry two revolovers and speed loaders.
HEHEHE, I just love how smart politicians are.
How much does that bag cost? Five bux? Less?
Oops, there goes THAT plan.
This guy doesn't need to.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DpCellB_UQ
I'll take your word for it but I never hear of them.
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