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Smith & Wesson announced Wednesday that it would rather stop selling its handguns in California than comply with the state’s new microstamping law, which “requires that all new semi-automatic pistols that are not already on the state’s approved gun roster have the microstamping technology,” The Washington Times reports.
However, independent studies have shown that microstamping is unreliable and ineffective for law enforcement, not to mention costly for manufacturers.
“As our products fall off the roster due to California’s interpretation of the Unsafe Handgun Act, we will continue to work with the NRA and the NSSF to oppose this poorly conceived law which mandates the unproven and unreliable concept of microstamping and makes it impossible for Californians to have access to the best products with the latest innovations,” Smith & Wesson President and CEO James Debney said, the Times reports.
“We’re being forced out of the state by the California Department of Justice,” Ruger CEO Mike Fifer told Guns.com. “This insistence on microstamping, which doesn’t work, is denying you your rights to have access to these guns.”
Ruger also announced this month that it will stop offering new semi-automatic firearms in California.....snip~
Microstamping Law Forces Smith & Wesson to Stop Selling New Guns in California - Leah Barkoukis
Seems the War on Guns is amping up. Here we have California and the District of Colombia going with the Micro-stamping of Weapons. Which does not work. Which you can bet now after hearing how Illinois wants ban Medical marijuana users from owning guns. I would expect the Liberal and Progressive bastions to pick up on that and try and to include it with their mental health definitions and the new ones they are writing. What say ye?
However, independent studies have shown that microstamping is unreliable and ineffective for law enforcement, not to mention costly for manufacturers.
“As our products fall off the roster due to California’s interpretation of the Unsafe Handgun Act, we will continue to work with the NRA and the NSSF to oppose this poorly conceived law which mandates the unproven and unreliable concept of microstamping and makes it impossible for Californians to have access to the best products with the latest innovations,” Smith & Wesson President and CEO James Debney said, the Times reports.
“We’re being forced out of the state by the California Department of Justice,” Ruger CEO Mike Fifer told Guns.com. “This insistence on microstamping, which doesn’t work, is denying you your rights to have access to these guns.”
Ruger also announced this month that it will stop offering new semi-automatic firearms in California.....snip~
Microstamping Law Forces Smith & Wesson to Stop Selling New Guns in California - Leah Barkoukis
Seems the War on Guns is amping up. Here we have California and the District of Colombia going with the Micro-stamping of Weapons. Which does not work. Which you can bet now after hearing how Illinois wants ban Medical marijuana users from owning guns. I would expect the Liberal and Progressive bastions to pick up on that and try and to include it with their mental health definitions and the new ones they are writing. What say ye?
