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Washington DC is the only place in the US where microstamping is required other than California. As I reported yesterday, both Ruger and Smith & Wesson are allowing many of their firearms to fall off of the “not unsafe” handgun list in California. It appears that Washington DC, who also passed a microstamping law which was set to go into effect on January 1, decided to postpone the microstamping requirement for another two years. According …

On Sunday Ben and I talked about how Ruger is ceasing to sell all semi-automatic handguns in California due to their microstamping law (that as far as we can tell still isn’t in effect). The CEO of Ruger had the following to say: Earlier today news broke that Smith & Wesson will be allowing their M&P handguns to be removed from the California approved handgun list in the next 60 days. This hasn’t been confirmed …

The California State Senate voted today to pass more gun control. 8 bills in total,  all of which closing “loopholes” in the current laws. Most notably, this package of bills creates a registry for ammo purchasers, and requires background checks to buy ammo. Democrat Kevin De Leon’s SB53, which would require background checks and licensing for all ammunition purchases, and store information about who’s buying bullets in a state database. This package of bills also …

The NRA news team interviewed Assemblywoman Michelle Schimel from NY, who is leading the way on the NY microstamping bill. “…sometimes the responsible people, the law abiding people, have to give up some of their liberty to make sure for the public safety of all.” Microstamping is the rediculous idea of having a firearm stamp a code onto the brass when it is fired, to somehow try to link the fired brass to the firearm …