[GGReporter]

California regulators have approved far fewer semi automatic pistols for sale in the wake of a state law that required new safety devices in 2006 and 2007.Now, with a new bullet stamping law scheduled to take effect in 2010, the gun industry predicts it will introduce even fewer new models in California rather than install a device necessary to trace individual casings to a statewide database.

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[Cyrano]

Let's recap. The Insane Asylum of the United States, which God in His infinite mercy and wisdom separated from the rest of the country by a desert, a river and a mountain range, has passed a law requiring that a technology the Federal Bureau of Investigation (which happens to know a little bit about firearms) has stated does not work must be included in any newly designed pistol sold in the Insane Asylum, otherwise known as California? And they think there will not be a backlash from gunmakers to their stupidity?

Ronnie Barrett, bless him, reacted to the state's banning .50 BMG rifles by terminating sales to any address in California, including law enforcement agencies; and by refusing to service Barrett rifles sent to him for service by California law enforcement agencies. He has said that he'll sell and service California Barrett rifles when the state rescinds the ban on the big fifties. Of course, the legislators in Sacramento didn't "get it."

The same thing is going to happen with new firearms made by other manufacturers. Instead of installing an unworkable technology - I mean, all it takes to beat it is changing out a couple of parts - they will simply stop selling new models of pistols in California. The FBI says microstamping does not work. They would have to install special tooling to make the guns Insane Asylum-compliant. For the number of guns they'd sell in California, it is not economically viable. Manufacturers aren't going to install microstamping technology in their manufacturing process until and unless compelled to by Federal law, and that's not going to happen.

A similar example can be found in New York State. Ten years ago, the lunatics in Albany passed a law driven by the f()ckwits in New York City, that established a Firearms Casing Database. The law requires that a new-manufacture pistol must be fired and a casing submitted to this database tagged with the pistol's serial number. The idea behind the law was that this would help law enforcement to identify guns used in crimes by comparing the casings recovered at a crime scene to the casings in the database.

You know how much money the state has spent on this database? Upwards of $25 million.

You know how many crimes have been solved as a result of this database? NONE.

Things like this are right up there with trying to hold back the tide in terms of gross stupidity. They add unnecessary costs to production and sales and don't contribute to the stated purpose of the law, which is to help fight crime. As I said, the microstamping can be beaten by changing out the firing pin and the extractor, or if by some bizarre technique the chamber can be made to stamp the casing, by changing out the barrel or by defacing the chamber. When I look at microstamping, the thought that runs through my head is that it is a solution in search of a problem, not the other way around.

[Big Dog]

Of course all this stuff&nonsense actually becomes a back-door method of gun control. If the new guns can't or won't be fitted with the <non-existant> technology, they can't be sold in Kommiefornia, thus the availability of guns begins to drop. Older guns can't be brought in, by state law, as they can't pass the tests either. So the State Goobermint gets what they have lusted after - an unarmed and easily controlled populace. Then the madness spreads.....

[travisg96]

Maybe gun makers should just stop selling to California all together including to LEO's. I wonder if the police couldn't buy guns anymore how much of a backlash that would cause.
Travis

[FN FAL]

You can bet there would be plenty of off shore makers more than willing to step in and sell to the communist state of california.

I wonder what the screwball officials will do once all these new things come into effect and it doesn't do one thing to deter crime.

Is there enough resolve in the state of california to get the insane leaders gone the next election?

tim

[TXplt]

California PROVES that creationism and the book of Genesis is true and complete as written.

After all, what better modern day example is there of how man can completely F... up the Garden of Eden ?

[travisg96]

It could start a new black market for shells from a range. After comitting a crime just spread a few of them around the crime scene and the cops will think they are looking for more than one shooter.
Travis

[petrol]

I thought this issue was dead in the water. which is why AB962 was introduced. If the manufacturers stand together and refuse to sell to the state at all I suspect they will drop the issue. I think GLOCK stopped submitting for the drop tests, but since so many LE use them they were given a pass.