Posted: 2/13/2008 6:44:48 AM EDT
| Did Governor Ahnuld ever sign that ammo serial numbers law? |
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the way I understood the law, which is a crock of fertilizer I might add; semi automatic pistols by 2010 must have a device to stamp a serial number related to the weapon onto the caseing and the fireing pin must also stamp the primer... there is one company that holds the patents to this type devise. No handgun manufacture in the world currently builds pistols wtih this ability. so it really isn't the brass that is serialized before being fired, it is a 'device' to serialize it when fired... other wise there wouldn't be any ammo to be found anywere and we'd all combat the serialized caseings with "load your own" investments. So when you buy you're new pistol in 2010; you can replace the fireing pin with one in brownell's or Midways catalog or just get out your electric drill and a piece of sand paper and give her a few rotations (no bs this was actually said in the CA senate opposeing the bill), personally I'd snap the factory fireing pin in half, then file the serial number stamper so that it is in-operable and if ever asked "I just shot the gun so much it wore out". I'm an honest citizen, Staff NCO in the US Marine Corps... but I'll be dipped in honey and stand in a field of Bee's before I let my pistol eject spent caseings that track back to me, I honestly don't like to load my mags w/o gloves on at public ranges. when will the anti's learn that none of the BS laws will not stop gun violence... criminials don't care and once we buy something, it's ours to modify... with in limitations of course. This law is a BS attempt at the same thing as the "finger printing" of bullets that NY and another state, I believe to be NJ do, were they keep a record of all semi auto pistols from a fired slug WHEN THE GUN IS NEW... so after 5k round the bore has wore, the owner has probly cleaned it with a brass brush, or has rubbed a cleaning rod against the rifleing and thier expensive computer data base is pretty much garbage... bullet fingerprinting has never solved any crime... so now they've gone after the brass. Bunch of clowns. You'd figure they'd have learned that after the "national assult weapons ban lifted" and crime dropped and there was a huge surge to by "evil black guns"... they'd just leave it all alone... OK I'm getting off topic so I'll stop |
I guess I was wrong on the date it's next year. That's the gist of it... lets sit back with some pop corn and see what happens. STI announced after the law went into effect that they wouldn't sell to CA... not that they were selling to CA anyway. here's the bills: http://republican.sen.ca.gov/opeds/99/oped2875_print.asp SB 357 - Did Not Pass... but the other one did... go figure the DOJ didn't even like AB 352
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It is a back door ban. It is banning handguns w/o coming out and saying it. Lets pretend the technology existed (which it doesn't), how many companies are going to actually care about California and agree to put money into this technology? Oh ya and LE gets an exemption. And this will of course work because criminals follow gun laws right?  |
I never thought of it that way... I was more concerned with a price increase on new handguns. |
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We are talking about different things here. The governor has signed the microstamping bill, as described above, into law. Another bill that has been in the California legislature for the past couple of sessions, IIRC, would have required all ammunition to be serialized. This has not made it into law. Ammo serialization bills have been introduced, pushed by some off the wall lobbying group, in whole bunch of states this year. I don't know about California. |
| It also doesn't require the millions and millions of pistols in California to be altered. Figure in another 200-300 years they'll be gone and homie will get caught shooting his stolen gun with the technology. It's called the CSI effect where science ignorate citizens think that science can solve people problems. Ain't gonna' happen. |