dksuddeth

to be hard as diamond, the costs would be way more than suggested, which really means that the price of any handguns sold in cali are going to skyrocket. This is the true intent of the law, not to aid in crime solving, but to make it too expensive for california residents to buy new handguns. sales based gun ban.

Again, there are way too many 'workarounds' to defeat this technology. It is ludicrous to suggest that 'common thugs' are too stupid to defeat this microstamping and then to turn around and say these same thugs are smarter than the average citizen so it doesn't pay to resist/fight back, etc.
It has the support of upper law enforcement because it effectively will prevent citizens from obtaining new handguns. Notice that this law exempts LEO's, meaning they can buy guns that don't require microstamping. why are they exempt from the same laws as us?

it is NOT a crime fighting tool anymore than the gun database is. This is just another regulatory scheme to ban guns. This law currently does not affect cali handguns that are already on the 'safe' roster. What will happen then is that this will be called a loophole and there will be callse to amend the law to close the 'loophole'. This is a gun ban, pure and simple.

I stand corrected, it is indeed 'sold'. not manufactured. thank you for pointing that out to me BoR

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