Bill Text: CA SB452 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Firearms.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-09-26 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 253, Statutes of 2023. [SB452 Detail]

Download: California-2023-SB452-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 452

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Introduced by Senator Blakespear
(Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Friedman)

February 13, 2023

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An act relating to firearms.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 452, as introduced, Blakespear. Firearms.

Existing law, subject to exceptions, generally makes it an offense to manufacture or sell an unsafe handgun, as defined, and requires the Department of Justice to compile a roster listing all of the handguns that have been tested and determined not to be unsafe handguns. Existing law establishes criteria for determining if a handgun is an unsafe handgun, including, for firearms manufactured after a certain date and not already listed on the roster, the lack of a chamber load indicator, magazine disconnect mechanism, and technology that transfers a microscopic array of characters from the firearm to the cartridge case when the firearm is fired, known as a microstamp.

This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation relating to firearm microstamping.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 It is the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to require all semiautomatic pistols sold in the state to be equipped with a microscopic array of characters used to identify the make, model, and serial number of the pistol, etched or otherwise imprinted in one or more places on the interior surface or internal working parts of the pistol, that are transferred by imprinting on each cartridge case when the firearm is fired.