Early this afternoon, after a lively discourse from members on both sides of the aisle who invoked the Second Amendment, and our Bill of Rights, the CA Assembly voted 43 AYE to 29 NO in passing Assembly Member Mike Feuer’s AB 1471.
This Bill, also known as Micro Stamping, is supported by numerous chiefs of police yet at the same time we learned that the Attorney General and other government agencies opposed it, including Orange County sheriff Mike Carona.
In his closing statement, prior to the vote being taken, Member Feuer said that “this technology was tested with a gun fired 2,400 times.”
On the other side of the aisle Member Doug LaMalfa, representing Butte County, stated that “this bill is practically useless.” He went on to add that we “continue to chip away at the Second Amendment.”
After Member Kevin DeLeon from LA stated that the “Second Amendment is old and it’s tired,” Chuck Devore of Irv. repeated Kevin’s ill advised statement and made a strong argument on behalf of the Bill of Rights that should not be trampled on.In his support of the Bill Sandre Swanson of Oakland reported that they had 148 homicides in the city of Oakland last year. That tells me they have a much bigger problem than can be fixed with this “tool” as expressed earlier by Member Lloyd Levine.
Without reprinting the entire Bill text, that you can easily find on line, here is a very brief summary.
SUMMARY: Requires specified semiautomatic pistols to be
equipped with microscopic identifying markings which are
transferred to each cartridge case when the firearm is fired.
While this Bill has yet to cross the finish line what’s your thought’s on the usefullness of this “tool?”
How does a tool which identifies the gun a bullet came from infringe on anyone’s rights?
Email response. Name removed by me:
amazing !
NRA Lifemember
NRA Police Instructor
Larry,
This is the second time I have sent this and the facts are still the same.
Not that anyone cares, but just because it wont work, that shouldn’t deter anyone from trying to force a Right to be wrong.
See that bastion of conservative thought UC Davis for some TRUTH about the absolute idiocy of this Totally STUPID law. http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=8148 They also talk about ceramic firing pins that MAY work, but we all know that ceramics are very poor in surviving impacts. That is precisely what firing pins do, they impact the primer of the cartridge.
Let me just say one more time, even CA DOJ study found it didn’t work either. Gee, any wonder why NO police organizations support this? Right along with the rest of the registration, ammo serialization, blah blah blah….It wont work! Even the FBI studied the issue and concluded, criminals break the gun laws and they have little or no effect on their behaviors. (Violent Encounters: Felonious Assaults on America’s Law Enforcement Officers.12/06, FBI)
Well even Homer Simpson knows that! That’s why they are criminals!
One must wonder why others find this very simple fact so difficult to understand.
Law abiding gun owners are not the problem criminals are!
Such laws would certainly increase the value of older non imprinting firearms and revolvers, the later is in fact favored by most “intelligent” criminals simply because it wont leave evidence laying on the ground after the shots are fired. Such laws would cause an increase in home break in’s and theft of firearms from law abiding owners. Added to that, the removal of such marking indentations would be so much easier than removal of serial numbers on the frames of weapons, which occurs regularly on “crime” guns, this whole idea is just one more bad idea that make the wrong parties pay for the illegal actions of others. Frankly, I am sick and tired of paying for others illegal actions when I am not the problem.
Gun Lobby, Conservative Republicans, Police organizations and anyone else who has any common sense and a bit of understanding of the facts is saying NO.
This is a way to limit legal commerce and pour money into one companies pockets not catch crooks.
Carl,
Just admit the fact that you would like to see some other son of an NRA lifemember kill his girlfriends family. Or just admit you want more liberal professors to be killed in deadly shootings. Its ok, we all know the NRA are a bunch of sociopaths.
carl.
Great response.
While there are some chiefs of police supporting this bill I don’t. Perhaps we can locate an archive of the legislative debate fo rall to witness.
anonymous 7:08 p.m.
What makes you think that those who use guns in crimes are Republicans? Or that the guns used in Oakland’s 148 homicides last year were owned by members of the NRA.
I welcome debate on substantiated facts.