According to Firearm Chronicles
Any California gun owner will tell you that the state’s “microstamping” law has played havoc with their ability to purchase handguns since it was put on the books back in 2007. No new models of handguns have been made available for sale since, because manufacturers simply can’t comply with the law, which mandates each new handgun model in the state be able to imprint a unique identifying code on two separate locations of the cartridge of a bullet when the gun is fired.
Now Assemblyman David Chiu, a Democrat from San Francisco, is seeking to modify the bill in the hopes that he can make manufacturers comply with California’s mandate to microstamp.
On Monday, Assemblyman David Chiu will introduce AB2847, which would require that semiautomatic pistols sold in the state leave a single unique imprint on bullets that are fired — rather than two, as currently required. The marking, which reveals a gun’s make, model and serial number, is meant to help law enforcement investigations.
While that might possibly entice some manufacturers to attempt to comply with the microstamping law, Chiu’s bill would have a devastating impact on the handguns that are currently for sale in the state.
Under the measure, for each new gun model introduced in California with the microstamping technology, the attorney general would remove three that do not meet the standard from a list of handguns certified for sale. “It creates a mechanism for unsafe guns to be phased out and safer guns that assist with crime-solving to enter the market,” said Chiu, a San Francisco Democrat.