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U-T SACRAMENTO BUREAU OVERVIEW Background: In 2007, the Legislature passed a bill that requires new models of semiautomatic handguns to leave an identifying code on shell casings. The law is scheduled to take effect Jan. 1. What's changing: Unresolved legal issues and concerns about the technology have raised questions about whether the law will go into effect as planned. The future: Efforts by other states and the federal government to adopt similar rules may lag if implementation of the California law becomes problematic. SACRAMENTO – Two years after California passed a novel law requiring the next generation of semiautomatic handguns...

Arnold Schwarzenegger has angered America's powerful gun lobby by backing legislation requiring semi-automatic handguns to mark bullets with serial numbers to help police identify casings found at crime scenes. The former Hollywood action hero, who played trigger-happy characters in violent films such as The Terminator, approved the crime-fighting technology despite opposition from the National Rifle Association, which said it could be used to implicate the innocent. The law, the first of its kind in the US, will require all semi-automatic guns made or sold in California to "microstamp" every bullet fired with the weapon's make, model and serial number. America's...

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Wednesday, October 10, 2007 Three pieces of firearm-related legislation are currently on the desk of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) awaiting his consideration. Assembly Bill 1471 would require that after a certain date, the make, model, and serial number of a firearm be microstamped onto the interior surface or internal working parts of all handguns in such a manner that those identifiers are imprinted onto the cartridge case upon firing. The manufacture, sale, and transfer of handguns that do not imprint their identifying information on a cartridge case would be a crime. Assembly Bill 821 would ban the use of lead...

COPLEY NEWS SERVICE SACRAMENTO – The Assembly sent the governor a bill yesterday requiring that the next generation of semiautomatic handguns stamp identifying serial numbers on spent shell casings. The legislation that would establish the first law of its kind in the nation could have a lasting impact on the war on crime, according to backers. But the limited application of the bill does not figure to be felt for several years. The bill covers only new models or brands of semiautomatic handguns approved for sale in the state after Jan. 1, 2010. That excludes nearly 1,300 different semiautomatics already...

Facing hundreds of bills in the waning days of this year's legislative session, lawmakers sent to the governor Monday measures targeting issues from firearm microstamping to child booster seats. Other proposals that cleared their final legislative hurdle are designed to tighten security of electronic databases, restrict the state's investments in Iran and create an energy-efficiency standard for common light bulbs. The microstamping measure, Assembly Bill 1471, would make California the first state to require makers of new models of semiautomatic pistols, after January 2010, to etch the gun make, model and serial number on each cartridge fired. Assemblyman Mike Feuer,...

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....