Title: Requires Microstamping Within Handguns
Signed by Governor Gavin Newsom
Title: Requires Microstamping Within Handguns
Title: Requires Microstamping Within Handguns
Vote to amend and pass a bill that requires guns registered in California to incorporate microstamping technology in order to be considered "safe," effective July 1, 2022.
Specifies that beginning July 1, 2022, the following characteristics of a pistol are considered “unsafe” (Sec. 2):
It does not have a chamber load indicator;
It does not have a magazine disconnect mechanism if it has a detachable magazine;
It is not designed with a set of characters etched on the gun that identify the make, model, and serial number of the pistol; or
It does not imprint the set of characters onto each cartridge case when it is fired.
Authorizes the Attorney General to remove 3 non-microstamped semiautomatic pistols from its registry for every microstamped pistol that is registered (Sec. 2).
Title: Requires Microstamping Within Handguns
Vote to pass a bill that requires a microstamp to be printed in the interior of a gun.
Establishes that beginning July 1, 2022, the following characteristics of a pistol are considered “unsafe” (Sec. 2):
It does not have a chamber load indicator;
It does not have a magazine disconnect mechanism if it has a detachable magazine;
It is not designed with a set of characters etched on the gun that identify the make, model and serial number of the pistol; or
It does not imprint the set of characters onto each cartridge case when it is fired.
Authorizes the Attorney General to remove 3 non-microstamped semiautomatic pistols from its registry for every microstamped pistol that is registered (Sec. 2).
Title: Requires Microstamping Within Handguns