There is no provision in this bill that exempts police or military... are they exempted by another act from a requirement to purchase weapons only on the California approved roster?
Am not a CA resident and what I know of CA law is all hearsay, check with someone there who knows the law to be sure, but from what I've heard, existing CA law (not the new ones just passed) allowed individual LE officers to purchase, for their own personal use, pistols that were in state, but not on the CA approved list.
And then there's microstamping...a deceptively simple seeming "solution" to a lot of problems, or so its claimed. Yet another example of politicians being sold a bill of goods, passing laws, and then leaving it up to us to figure out how to comply and shoulder all expenses and effort reaching for an unattainable goal.
IF you were around back then, you might recall that the original laws requiring microstamping were shut down because the technology was at the time, proprietary. ONE company owned the rights to the process. Personally I can't think of a better business model than a law requiring everyone to use your product. The word monopoly comes to mind.
In order for microstamping to actually work as a benefit in solving crimes, you'd need full registration and a complete functional database of all micro stamped guns, and even that can only track up to the last legal point of sale.
And then, there that old school thingy... what were they called again?,,, oh yeah, REVOLVERS!!!
I do agree that if anyone should be required to use the tech, it should be the police (and by extension, all armed govt agents). First off, the database would be smaller, and so easier to manage, (and cheaper, hopefully), second if only official govt agents used microstamp guns, that instantly clears them if the brass found at the crime scene isn't stamped, and if it is, directly implicates those individual officers who's guns it came from. THAT sounds like something that might be possible, to me, and it would be at general taxpayer expense, not coming out of the pockets of individual consumers.
CA might be the land of dreams, but recent decades have shown too many of those dreams being put into law are pipe dreams and/or nightmares.
