California leads the way...

California leads the way ... to driving gun makers to stop selling in the state.  The new “micro-stamping” requirements for semi-automatic handguns has Smith & Wesson deciding to stop selling to the California market, joining Sturm, Ruger, and others.  The problem is that the new California requirement is tremendously expensive to manufacturers, requiring a custom part for each and every weapon.  Furthermore, the intent of the regulation (to allow every bullet casing to be unambiguously tied to the gun that fired it) is easily defeated by any bad guys.  So the net effect of this regulation is to drastically increase the cost of the weapons while having no effect on public safety.  This is almost certainly what the regulators actually intended, being progressive wackos from California...