Bill Text: CA AB2733 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Firearms: unsafe handguns: imprinting.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Failed) 2018-04-26 - From committee: Without further action pursuant to Joint Rule 62(a). [AB2733 Detail]
Download: California-2017-AB2733-Introduced.html
Assembly Bill | No. 2733 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Harper (Coauthor: Assembly Member Lackey) |
February 15, 2018 |
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 31910 of the Penal Code is amended to read:31910.
As used in this part, “unsafe handgun” means any pistol, revolver, or other firearm capable of being concealed upon the person, for which any of the following is true:(7)(A)Commencing January 1, 2010, for all semiautomatic pistols that are not already listed on the roster pursuant to Section 32015, it is not designed and equipped with a microscopic array of characters that identify the make, model, and serial number of the pistol, etched or otherwise imprinted in two or more places on the interior surface or internal working parts of the pistol, and that are transferred by
imprinting on each cartridge case when the firearm is fired, provided that the Department of Justice certifies that the technology used to create the imprint is available to more than one manufacturer unencumbered by any patent restrictions.
(B)The Attorney General may also approve a method of equal or greater reliability and effectiveness in identifying the specific serial number of a firearm from spent cartridge casings discharged by that firearm than that which is set forth in this paragraph, to be thereafter required as otherwise set forth by this paragraph where the Attorney General certifies that this new method is also unencumbered by any patent restrictions. Approval by the Attorney General shall include notice of that fact via regulations adopted by the Attorney General for purposes of implementing that method for purposes of this paragraph.
(C)The microscopic array of
characters required by this section shall not be considered the name of the maker, model, manufacturer’s number, or other mark of identification, including any distinguishing number or mark assigned by the Department of Justice, within the meaning of Sections 23900 and 23920.