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Originally Posted by idontknow

Just saw this:

California Senate Bill 357 and its sister bill Assembly Bill 352 would have all new guns stamp an I.D. number on shell casings as they fire, and require every semi-automatic handgun sold after Jan. 1, 2009, to be equipped with the new microstamping technology that assigns traceable serial numbers to individual bullets.

from http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,164550,00.html

also latimes: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-cap18oct18,1,1496850.column?coll=la-util-politics-cal

Do they really believe this will help solve criminal gun use when it could be easily circumvented?

No they don't...but what they wish to convey, by passing more laws, is that they are doing something, and that they are "in control"...