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California: Microstamping


Subdeacon Joe

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http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2016/01/robert-farago/californias-disappearing-handguns-explained/

 

 

There are less handguns available for sale in California in 2016 because of another ill-conceived gun law. Since January 1, 2001, California’s so called “Unsafe Handgun Act”(“UHA”) law has mandated that all handguns sold at retail in the state must be listed on the California Department of Justice’s Roster of Handguns Certified for Sale (“the Roster”). Originally, handguns only needed to pass a drop test and other performance tests to be added to the Roster. The law was later amended to require . . .

that all centerfire semi-automatic pistols to be added to the Roster had to have a loaded chamber indicator and magazine disconnect. And more recently, notoriously anti-gun-owner and then-Assembly Member Mike Feuer (now Los Angeles City Attorney) pushed a law adding a requirement that pistols be equipped with “microstamping” technology which is supposed to imprint on a casing upon discharge a microscopic code that identifies the handgun from which it was fired.

 

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There is only one company that offers this technology...for a price. Nanomark. Sole source, you want it? Gotta pay. It doesn't do what it promises. Marks wear down as the gun is fired. Imagine your brass recovered at a shooting range and "salted" at crime scenes. Providing the markings can be read and there's a database.

 

Remember when they "mandated" a fired case be included with every new gun so they can be sent to those States that maintain a database? Care to guess how many crimes have been solved with this technology? (10-15 years old as I recall) Very very few.

 

In short, none of this nonsense actually works.

 

Oh DUH....neither does obummercare and that hasn't stopped'em...LOL

(Sorry, couldn't resist that last jab)

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It gets better:
"Gun manufacturers now face an impossible dilemma. To comply with California’s current interpretation of the UHA, once a minor change is made to a pistol the only way a gun manufacturer can get it back on the Roster is to incorporate microstamping technology into the firearm. But gun manufacturers can’t, don’t, and won’t do so."

 

Those "minor changes" include color change, even if it is just anodizing or a change from blue to black, differences in barrel length, and so on. Have a model in 3 barrel lengths and available in blue, stainless, and black? That, per the CADOJ, is 9 different models, each of which must be certified separately.

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What ever happened to the California voters? :wacko:

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What ever happened to the California voters? :wacko:

 

 

The San Francisco Bay Area and the Greater Los Angeles area pretty much control the politics of the state. We have a few districts that have a largish chunk of the Central Valley connected by a narrow corridor to a blob on the coast that negate the more conservative inland population. That adds up to a strong liberal majority in both houses of our Legislature.

 

<rant mode on>Add in that too many gun owners throw up their hands and moan and wail that there is nothing they can do. Do they vote? Too often the answer is "No." Do they follow what is going on in the Legislature? Nope. Do they contact their representatives? You must be joking. But by GAWD do they talk a mean talk in the gun store about what they would like to do! They'll go on for hours. But get them to make a 5 minute phone call or take 10 minutes to write a letter to a legislator? No way! Too much trouble.<rant mode off>

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We are here. The problem is the noise from the public feeding trough is drowning out those of us the will not be paid to vote for this crap. I sent a letter to our local politician and he side stepped the issue of 2nd amendment and he is a Republican in Orange County California. Politicians are buying votes by giving away taxpayers's money to win..... California is a great state, the politicians have made it a joke.

 

Toke

 

And yes those that do nothing and talk a lot are worse than those in the trough....

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We are here. The problem is the noise from the public feeding trough is drowning out those of us the will not be paid to vote for this crap. I sent a letter to our local politician and he side stepped the issue of 2nd amendment and he is a Republican in Orange County California. Politicians are buying votes by giving away taxpayers's money to win..... California is a great state, the politicians have made it a joke.

 

Toke

 

And yes those that do nothing and talk a lot are worse than those in the trough....

 

 

That makes about 10 of us. There are at least 8,000,000 gun owners in CA. We need ALL of us on the phone or writing emails each week.

 

Even if only about 1/8 of us did that, it would be about 15,000 calls or emails or written letters each week they would have to devote to firearms civil rights. Say each takes about 3 minutes to deal with. That’s 750 man-hours per week, or 18 man-DAYS.

Numbers like that they would listen to.

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Unfortnately several states are getting to the point where the majority of the population is concentrated into a couple of mega-plexes.

 

Laws that wouldn't pass through the legislature because the rural areas still have a lot of pull in the state senate are circumventing the process by having them put up for popular vote.

 

Sad that mob rule is being used to erode our second amendment rights.

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