California 'Roll Forward'
Microstamping Punishes Firearm Innovation
by AWR Hawkins 23 Jan 2014, 8:03
PM PDT
California's microstamping plan is even worse than normal
microstamping because it punishes gun manufacturers for firearm
innovation.
When Breitbart News announced that
Smith & Wesson and Sturm, Ruger,
& Co. were done selling semi-automatic firearms in California due to microstamping
requirements, many wondered why the requirements were considered so onerous and
if they merited a complete withdrawal from the state.
Sources explain that CA is
requiring "roll forward" microstamping, which means manufacturers
must revamp their production line to incorporate microstamping when a design
change makes a given firearm better. From the point of improvement forward they
must identify their firearms with a firing pin fingerprint or microstamp.
This means a handgun which was on
the CA approved roster yesterday is considered a new firearm and must meet the
microstamping requirement rolling forward if it receives a change as small as
an internal component – a new spring, for example.
The cost of complying with this
requirement is unknown, but normal production costs will certainly rise. The
unknown aspect of it results from the fact that microstamping has yet to prove
reliable, and the size, makeup, and expense of a database to store microstamped
firearm information remains in flux.
Announcing the National Shooting
Sports Foundation's (NSSF) lawsuit against CA's microstamping requirement, NSSF
senior vice president Lawrence Keane said:
There is no existing microstamping
technology that will reliably, consistently, and legibly imprint the required
identifying information by a semiautomatic handgun on the ammunition it fires.
The holder of the patent for this technology himself has written that there are
problems with it and that further study is warranted before it is mandated. A
National Academy of Science review, forensic firearm examiners and a University of California
at Davis study
reached the same conclusion, and the technical experts in the firearm industry
agree.
Smith & Wesson and Sturm, Ruger, &
Co.
TIAA-CREF
is an investor in Smith & Wesson,
and the Sturm, Ruger & Co., Inc.
Note: TIAA–CREF
Teachers Insurance and Annuity
Association – College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA–CREF).
California
State Teachers' Retirement System is an investor in Smith & Wesson, the Sturm,
Ruger & Co., Inc., Cerberus
Capital Management L.P., and was a borrower in the Bailout - Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan.
Bill
Lockyer is a board member for the California
State Teachers' Retirement System, and the California state government treasurer.
Jerry
Brown is the California state government governor, and his sister is Kathleen Brown.
Kathleen
Brown was the California state government treasurer, a
senior adviser for the Goldman Sachs
Group Inc. (Bailout Company), is Jerry
Brown’s sister, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Stephanie
Bell-Rose was a managing director at the Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (Bailout Company), and is the senior
managing director for TIAA-CREF.
James S.
Crown is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and a trustee
at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Lester Crown
is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and was a lifetime
trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Clifton R. Wharton
Jr. was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank), and the chairman & CEO for TIAA-CREF.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think
tank), the New America Foundation,
the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace (think tank), and the Committee
for Economic Development.
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Roger W.
Ferguson Jr. was a director at the New
America Foundation, a trustee at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and is the president &
CEO for TIAA-CREF.
Jessica Tuchman Mathews is the
president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank),
a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), was an
honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with
Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population
control by involving the United
States in war)
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Commercial Club of Chicago,
Members Directory A-Z (Past Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Rahm
I. Emanuel is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, the Chicago (IL) mayor,
and was the White House chief of staff for the Barack Obama administration.
NRA-ILA (Rahm Emanuel’s Gun Control History)
Richard
M. Daley is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, was the Chicago
(IL) mayor, Valerie B. Jarrett
was his deputy chief of staff, and Michelle
Obama was his staffer.
NRA-ILA (Richard M. Daley’s Gun Control History)
Valerie B. Jarrett
is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, the senior adviser for the Barack
Obama administration, and her great uncle is Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
R.
Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Michelle
Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Newton
N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
W. James
McNerney Jr. is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and the chairman & president & CEO for the Boeing Company.
William
M. Daley is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, was the chief of staff for the Barack Obama administration, and a director at the Boeing Company.
John
H. Biggs was a director at the Boeing
Company, and the chairman & CEO for TIAA-CREF.
Barbara G. Fast
was a VP at the Boeing Company, and
a VP for the CGI Group Inc.
CGI Group Inc.
was the Obamacare contractor that
developed Healthcare.gov web site.
Obamacare
is Barack Obama’s signature policy
initiative.
Donna
S. Morea was the EVP for the CGI
Group Inc., and a trustee at the Committee
for Economic Development.
Bertram L. Scott
was a trustee at the Committee for
Economic Development, and the EVP for TIAA-CREF.
Roger W.
Ferguson Jr. is a co-chairman for the Committee
for Economic Development, and the president & CEO for TIAA-CREF.
TIAA-CREF
is an investor in Smith & Wesson,
and the Sturm, Ruger & Co., Inc.
California
State Teachers' Retirement System is an investor Cerberus Capital Management L.P., and in Smith & Wesson, the Sturm,
Ruger & Co., Inc.
Stephen A.
Feinberg is the CEO for Cerberus
Capital Management L.P., and Martin
Feinberg’s son.
Martin Feinberg
is Stephen A. Feinberg’s father, and
a Newtown (CT) resident.
Newtown
(CT) is the location of the 2012
massacre at Sandy Hook
Elementary School.
2012
massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School was a mass shootings 28 killed, including gunman.
Cerberus
Capital Management L.P. is the owner of the Freedom Group.
Michael P.C.
Carns is a director at the Freedom
Group, and was a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States
(think tank).
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank), and the Center for American Progress.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, and was a supporter for the Center for American Progress.
Freedom Group is
a gun manufacturer.
Bushmaster
Firearms is a Freedom Group brand.
Remington
is a Freedom Group brand.
Wal-Mart
Stores Inc. is a major retailer for the Freedom Group.
John
B. Breaux was a lobbyist for the Wal-Mart
Stores Inc., and a consultant for the Cerberus
Capital Management L.P.
Jose H.
Villarreal was a director at the Wal-Mart
Stores Inc., is a director at the Center
for American Progress, and a senior adviser for the Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP.
Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP was the lobby firm for the Center for American Progress, and is
the lobby firm for the Boeing Company.
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is a senior
counsel for Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer
& Feld, LLP, Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, a director at the
American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference
participant (think tank).
Valerie B. Jarrett
is Vernon E. Jordan Jr’s great niece, the senior
adviser for the Barack Obama
administration, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Kathleen
Brown is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, Jerry Brown’s
sister, was a senior adviser for the Goldman
Sachs Group Inc. (Bailout Company), and the California
state government treasurer.
Stephanie
Bell-Rose was a managing director at the Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (Bailout Company), and is the senior
managing director for TIAA-CREF.
Bill
Lockyer is the California state government treasurer, and a
board member for the California State
Teachers' Retirement System.
California
State Teachers' Retirement System is an investor in Smith & Wesson, the Sturm,
Ruger & Co., Inc., Cerberus
Capital Management L.P., and was a borrower in the Bailout - Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan.
TIAA-CREF
is an investor in Smith & Wesson,
and the Sturm, Ruger & Co., Inc.
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