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California Lawmakers Seek to Force Gunmakers to 'Microstamp' Bullet Casings

Advocates seek enforcement of 2007 measure that would link casings to the guns that fired them

Guardian

23 March 2021

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California's 2007 law requires gun manufacturers to adopt microstamping technology on new types of handguns introduced in the state. The intent was to imprint a unique set of microscopic characters on all cartridge casings when weapons are fired, linking bullet casings to the guns that discharged them.

The bill by the Democratic assemblyman Jesse Gabriel, co-founder of the legislature's gun violence prevention working group, would add law enforcement starting in 2023.

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Gunmakers have vigorously opposed the microstamp law, arguing the technology is unreliable. To get around complying with it, they have not introduced new gun models in California since the law was passed.

Mark Oliva, spokesman for the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the trade association for the firearm industry, called microstamping an "unworkable technology". […]

Last year, California enacted a law easing the requirement for two microstamps on each shell casing to one, with proponents citing legal filings in which the industry said it could meet that standard. Another bill this year would keep the two-stamp requirement in place until July 2022.

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