“Gun manufacturer Smith & Wesson refused Thursday to comply with California’s controversial “microstamping” law, causing more of its products to fall off the state’s permissible firearms list and be ineligible for sale.
In a two-page statement on its website, Smith & Wesson criticized Assembly Bill 1471, which requires new or redesigned semiautomatic weapons to carry microstamping technology, imprinting its make, model and serial number onto shell casings when a bullet is fired.
Though the law was passed in 2007, language in the legislation stipulated it would go into effect when the necessary technology was widely available. It was not enacted until May 2013.”* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
*Read more here from Kate Mather / LA Times:
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-smith-wesson-microstamping-law-20140123,0,7131958.story#ixzz2rRT2fk5D
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