From The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms:
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. In fact, criminals are exempt from firearm registration by a U.S. Supreme Court decision (U.S. v Haynes, 1968). In addition to that, the technology is easily defeated in a number of ways: the etching can be marred or ground out, brass picked up at a firing range can be reloaded and used, steel cased-ammunition won’t take the imprint, etc.
This questionable and unproven technology is just another attempt to limit access to affordable handguns by gun control extremists in the state legislature. Industry sources estimate this will add as much as $150 to the cost of each handgun with microstamping. Where will it stop? Microstamping the chambers of ALL firearms next? What about revolvers? A $900 additional charge to stamp each separate chamber?
What starts in California will be coming to your state soon.
With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is one of the nation’s premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in local communities throughout the United States.
Even if no one used reloaded ammunition, even if the stamping were not defeated, the casing would only lead law enforcement back to the last-known registered owner – which, in 98.5% of the time, is not the criminal. Therefore 98.5% of the time all this expense would be for naught – except, of course, for providing the government with more and more private information about the law-abiding gun owner, a person most Liberals fear more than actual criminals.
You would think that it would be the job of Assemblyman Mike Feuer to preserve the firearms freedoms and gun rights of law-abiding citizens. But here we have a gun-hating California liberal using junk science to hide his hidden agenda of making it harder and harder for law-abiding citizens to exercise their Constitutional right to own a gun. Therefore it takes people like those with the grass-roots Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms to safeguard your rights.
And don’t laugh at our poor California neighbors. What starts in California will be coming to your state soon.
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