California microstamping law going nowhere

Hopefully after the RKBA is incorporated, any laws limiting citizen to guns that are not in common use will be found unconstitutional. As DC couldn’t even place color limits on guns, I’m sure CA’s law will fall the same way.

Here's an idea: let gun manufacturer's follow Ronnie Barrett's lead, and just stop doing business in California. It won't be long before the law enforcement community there, unable to purchase weapons for their own use, will have something to say about this idiotic law. They may suddenly "discover" that it won't help fight crime that much after all. "After further review we have concluded that our earlier assessments of this technology were overly optimistic..."

Brerarnold,

Unfortunately you are showing a naive 'political correctness' (yes, we have it on our side too) that is harmful.

Firstly, Ronnie's 50BMG is a unique gun in small circulation. It's not typically available thru distribution channel. Secondly, if LAPD wants more Barretts and repair parts it can find them thru second sources. (Back in 2005, we found intermediary FFLs that would import off-list AR receivers into CA even when the mfgrs still thought all AR receivers were illegal - so similar shenanigans are possible, esp by LE agency.)

Also, quite a few handgun mfgrs are publicly traded companies and they generally have a duty to sell where they can. Shareholders would not appreciate avoidance of sales to a large customer base.

Furthermore, many LE agency sales are thru distribution so even if the company didn't wanna sell to XYZ PD surely a distributor will. And I'm sure there'd be legal hell to pay if the mfgr tried to stop a distributor from selling to a legal customer it had. (Imagine a parallel situation: Ford telling dealers not to sell cars to public school teachers because the latter are often a buncha green freaks.)

All your proposed action would do is restrict guns flowing to the good guys fighting out here - California gunnies. We don't need our side pulling a Sarah Brady on us.

Bill Wiese
San Jose CA