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Well, we only got an A- from the Brady report card, but we are working on making it better. Coming soon to a Legislature near you.
It don't stop.
Must attack. This from their site.
http://www.millionmommarch.org/ca/ab352myths.pdf
Vick
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California AB 352 (Microstamping):
Myths and Facts
Myth #1: California already has good gun laws. Why do we need this law?
Fact: Microstamping will help enforce – and reinforce – California’s good gun laws by stopping those who try to evade them.
California’s laws are a model for the rest of the nation. California has passed laws that require a Brady background check for each gun transfer, child safe storage of guns, consumer product safety standards, limits on bulk sales of handguns, restrictions on gun access by domestic violence offenders, and other laws.
As a result, between 1993 and 2002, California:
· cut gun homicide by 48% (vs. a 40% U.S. reduction);
· cut gun suicide by 37% (vs. a 19% U.S. reduction);
· cut its total rate of gun deaths by 44% (vs. 31% in the entire U.S.).
Microstamping will help to enforce these good laws so that we can continue to reduce gun deaths in California by solving more gun crimes and deterring gun trafficking. No arrest is made in about 45 percent of California homicides because police lack the evidence they need to initiate an investigation, arrest the perpetrator and obtain a conviction. That is why California law enforcement officials are telling the legislature they need the new crime-solving tools that AB 352 will provide.
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Myth #2: AB 352 will make handguns without a microstamp illegal.
Fact: AB 352 only applies to newly designed and manufactured handguns. Existing
handguns and existing handgun models would not be affected.
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Myth #3: The purpose of AB 352 is to discourage lawful ownership of guns.
Fact: AB 352 is just another tool for law enforcement to use in solving handgun
crimes and preventing gun trafficking. Law abiding gun owners would not be impacted
by this law.
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Myth #4: AB 352 is basically a user tax on handgun owners in California.
Fact: Microstamping will not cost the state of California anything. No new database
is required. California already has a system for tracking the serial numbers of guns
transferred in California, through the DROS (Dealer Record of Sale) process. The
casing expelled from a handgun equipped with a microstamp will refer to the serial
number of the handgun. When a casing is recovered at the scene of a crime with a
microstamp, law enforcement will simply reference the existing database.
Manufacturers will incur modest costs to adopt the new technology, The cost is
relatively low and can be spread out over many years and many handguns. If the cost
of the technology is passed on to the consumer, it is expected to be less than one
percent of the cost of the handgun.
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Myth #5: Criminals will defeat the technology by filing down the firing pin.
Fact: If criminals try to file down the tiny numbers engraved on the firing pin, they are
likely to make the gun inoperable. In addition, there are multiple back-up systems built
into the microstamp technology.
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Myth #6: The technology won’t work over time because the firing pin will wear down.
Fact: Independent testing by a forensic technologist has shown that the engraved
characters on the firing pins are extremely durable and will not wear down over time.
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Myth #7: Microstamping won’t reduce crime because criminals will get guns no matter
what -- either through a straw buyer, an illegal purchase, or theft.
Fact: Once straw buyers in California understand that a crime committed with a
trafficked gun could be traced to them, they will think twice before buying new
handguns for gun traffickers. This will help cut off a big source of crime guns. AB 352, will not, of course, eliminate criminal access to guns. It is, however, a valuable tool, like fingerprinting and DNA testing, to help police investigate, arrest and convict people who use semiautomatic handguns in crimes and to deter straw buyers who may supply gun traffickers.
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Myth #8: Criminals will implicate innocent people by putting casings fired by other
handguns at the scene of a crime.
Fact: If criminals were going to do this, they already would be doing it in order to fool the existing ballistic identification system known as NIBIN, but they are not. Given that most criminals do not even do routine things like remove license plates from stolen cars or wear gloves during burglaries, it is not likely that they will have the foresight to leave bogus casings at the scene of a crime.
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Written by Griffin Dix, Ph.D.
President, California Million Mom March Chapters of the Brady Campaign to Prevent
Gun Violence
With the Brady Campaign and the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence
See: www.MillionMomMarch.org/CA
i See the research that shows why these laws work: “Factsheet: Firearm Injury and Death in the United
States” www.jhsph.edu/gunpolicy
ii Forensics expert Lucien Haag conducted tests of the technology and concluded that the microstamp
was easily readable on all types of bullet casings tested after hundreds of rounds.
It don't stop.
Must attack. This from their site.
http://www.millionmommarch.org/ca/ab352myths.pdf
Vick
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California AB 352 (Microstamping):
Myths and Facts
Myth #1: California already has good gun laws. Why do we need this law?
Fact: Microstamping will help enforce – and reinforce – California’s good gun laws by stopping those who try to evade them.
California’s laws are a model for the rest of the nation. California has passed laws that require a Brady background check for each gun transfer, child safe storage of guns, consumer product safety standards, limits on bulk sales of handguns, restrictions on gun access by domestic violence offenders, and other laws.
As a result, between 1993 and 2002, California:
· cut gun homicide by 48% (vs. a 40% U.S. reduction);
· cut gun suicide by 37% (vs. a 19% U.S. reduction);
· cut its total rate of gun deaths by 44% (vs. 31% in the entire U.S.).
Microstamping will help to enforce these good laws so that we can continue to reduce gun deaths in California by solving more gun crimes and deterring gun trafficking. No arrest is made in about 45 percent of California homicides because police lack the evidence they need to initiate an investigation, arrest the perpetrator and obtain a conviction. That is why California law enforcement officials are telling the legislature they need the new crime-solving tools that AB 352 will provide.
-------------------------------------------
Myth #2: AB 352 will make handguns without a microstamp illegal.
Fact: AB 352 only applies to newly designed and manufactured handguns. Existing
handguns and existing handgun models would not be affected.
------------------------------------
Myth #3: The purpose of AB 352 is to discourage lawful ownership of guns.
Fact: AB 352 is just another tool for law enforcement to use in solving handgun
crimes and preventing gun trafficking. Law abiding gun owners would not be impacted
by this law.
------------------------------------------
Myth #4: AB 352 is basically a user tax on handgun owners in California.
Fact: Microstamping will not cost the state of California anything. No new database
is required. California already has a system for tracking the serial numbers of guns
transferred in California, through the DROS (Dealer Record of Sale) process. The
casing expelled from a handgun equipped with a microstamp will refer to the serial
number of the handgun. When a casing is recovered at the scene of a crime with a
microstamp, law enforcement will simply reference the existing database.
Manufacturers will incur modest costs to adopt the new technology, The cost is
relatively low and can be spread out over many years and many handguns. If the cost
of the technology is passed on to the consumer, it is expected to be less than one
percent of the cost of the handgun.
-------------------------------------------------------------
Myth #5: Criminals will defeat the technology by filing down the firing pin.
Fact: If criminals try to file down the tiny numbers engraved on the firing pin, they are
likely to make the gun inoperable. In addition, there are multiple back-up systems built
into the microstamp technology.
-----------------------------------------------------------
Myth #6: The technology won’t work over time because the firing pin will wear down.
Fact: Independent testing by a forensic technologist has shown that the engraved
characters on the firing pins are extremely durable and will not wear down over time.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Myth #7: Microstamping won’t reduce crime because criminals will get guns no matter
what -- either through a straw buyer, an illegal purchase, or theft.
Fact: Once straw buyers in California understand that a crime committed with a
trafficked gun could be traced to them, they will think twice before buying new
handguns for gun traffickers. This will help cut off a big source of crime guns. AB 352, will not, of course, eliminate criminal access to guns. It is, however, a valuable tool, like fingerprinting and DNA testing, to help police investigate, arrest and convict people who use semiautomatic handguns in crimes and to deter straw buyers who may supply gun traffickers.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Myth #8: Criminals will implicate innocent people by putting casings fired by other
handguns at the scene of a crime.
Fact: If criminals were going to do this, they already would be doing it in order to fool the existing ballistic identification system known as NIBIN, but they are not. Given that most criminals do not even do routine things like remove license plates from stolen cars or wear gloves during burglaries, it is not likely that they will have the foresight to leave bogus casings at the scene of a crime.
-----------------------------------------------------
Written by Griffin Dix, Ph.D.
President, California Million Mom March Chapters of the Brady Campaign to Prevent
Gun Violence
With the Brady Campaign and the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence
See: www.MillionMomMarch.org/CA
i See the research that shows why these laws work: “Factsheet: Firearm Injury and Death in the United
States” www.jhsph.edu/gunpolicy
ii Forensics expert Lucien Haag conducted tests of the technology and concluded that the microstamp
was easily readable on all types of bullet casings tested after hundreds of rounds.
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