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When Will the Firearms Industry Say NO MORE to California? By Ralph Weller California
Assemblyman Paul Koretz introduced legislation this past week requiring
all center-fire semi-automatic handguns sold in California starting in
2007 to stamp serial numbers in the brass cases when fired. The bill says that
a "microscopic array of characters" must be located in the
inner-workings of the handgun, presumably the chamber or on the firing
pin, that would
imprint the make, model and serial number of the handgun onto the brass
case or primer. It's not specific but it does mention the case,
so the firing pin may not qualify with a primer marking. The bill makes no
mention of what happens when a gun owner needs to have work done to
their firearm and if it is obliterated or no longer visible after the
work is complete. It makes no mention of what a gun owner
needs to do if the "microscopic array" just flat wears down over time
and no longer imprints the information on the case. It makes no
mention of whether modifying a firearm to remove the "microscopic
array" is illegal, nor, if worn down over time whether the gun owner is
subject to penalties for owning a firearm that can no longer imprints
the information on the case. But, what the bill
also doesn't say, but screams out loud, is that Koretz could care less
about any of these issues. What Koretz cares about is pricing
firearms out of reach so the average Joe can't afford to purchase a
gun. Already hundreds of firearms are no longer available to
Californians due to state regulatory requirements requiring certain
features, indicators and state mandated testing requirements that some
manufacturers refuse or simply can't comply with financially.
Bills passed last year for certain chamber-loaded indicators and
disconnects that render the firearm inoperable with the magazine
removed, go into effect January 1 2006 which will eliminate another
round of guns for sale here. Now there could be another hoop for
firearm manufacturers to jump through starting January 1, 2007 that
ends up driving the price of all firearms through the roof, not only in
California, but nationally as well. And, who knows how many
firearms will not be sold in California due to the cost to implement
this across all product lines. Another pile of firearms will
disappear from California. In another couple or three more years
of ingenious legislation like this, no one will be able to buy a gun in
California which has been the plan of the left all along. But of
course, the only people exempt from all this are law enforcement and
governmental agencies. Maybe we need to have a special plan for
them. Gun manufacturers
are the ones that have to stop this kind of legislation. They
need to band together and JUST SAY NO to this stupidity in
California. It's time to take a stand. All handgun
manufacturers are challenged to "Just Say No." Get off the drug
of government contracts and law enforcement sales to California
agencies. Get off the drugs and tell the politicians of
California that they can't have it both ways. While government
officials drive your costs up with red tape, they negotiate firearms
contracts to arm their law enforcement personnel. Just tell LAPD,
SFPD, CalDOJ, CHP and every city and county law enforcement agency,
every assembly person, every state senator, every police chief and
sheriff, and Governor Schwarzenegger, that if this bill is signed into
law, that will be the day all
handguns cease to be shipped to California including all governmental
agencies within the state. Do you think it will become law?
Probably
not. And, if they say they "we won't be held hostage to the gun
manufacturers" and they follow through with the law anyway, cease
shipments to California. That will be the end of it. The
state will cave because they can't afford not to. The cries of
whining police chiefs advocating gun control today will be loud and
clear for legislators to back off. Manufacturers need to keep
doing it for every new law that places an unfair burden on you as a
manufacturer. It's time to get tough. It's time to turn the
tables on politicians like Paul Koretz. It's time for the
gun manufacturers to sit down and map a strategy to stop these people
in California. And so what if they accuse you of collusion.
These people are engaged in collusion to run you out of
California. They are engaged in collusion of violating the
constitutional rights of its citizens. By all measures, they
should be branded as traitors, tried, found guilty, their citizenship
revoked, then exported to a country they so readily emulate. So
what if they don't like the way you do business. We don't like
the way they run the government! Do you? Quit hiding in the corners allowing some shadow manufacturer's group or hired lobbyists to speak on your behalf. You need to do it directly and you need to punch them right between the eyes. You cannot continue to take it in the shorts financially at the expense of politicians who only seek to line their own pockets at the expense of its citizens and you the firearms manufacturers. Send letters to all of them putting them on notice. Let the left who will feign being insulted by your letter open their big mouths. Let them start talking about their agenda to run firearms manufacturers out of California. It is as clear that my prediction of 1999 that the left want all handgun sales to cease here to the general public by 2010 is becoming a reality. But if you wish to save your industry in California, you need to start now. Or, the only sales in California will be to government agencies in another few short years, and it's guaranteed you can't survive on those kind of profits. This article may be reprinted or redistributed using any means of communications providing GunNewsDaily.com is recognized as the originating source. [Home]
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