VICTORY! COURT DISMISSES CASE AGAINST MICROSTAMPING

BREAKING NEWS!

Amanda Wilcox, CA Legislation and Policy Chair, just reported that a Fresno Court dismissed a case against our “ microstamping” requirement for handguns sold in California!

She noted that many CA Brady chapter members, including our Orange County Brady Chapter, worked hard on our microstamping bill in 2007.  Under the bill,  new models of handguns must have “microstamping” technology,  whereby internal parts of a gun stamp intentional marks onto the bullet casings, which may be the only evidence left at a crime scene.  Law enforcement can use these marks to solve gun crimes and find armed criminals before they do more harm.

Aside from attending our lobby day and press events - and writing many letters – our chapter leaders did a tremendous job getting 65 local police chiefs and sheriffs to endorse the bill.  We were very pleased that many OC Chiefs signed on in support of microstamping.  The CA Brady Chapters were instrumental in getting the bill passed by the legislature and signed by the Governor.     

This court decision is a big development as the litigation was keeping us in limbo and hindering efforts and strategies to get microstamping implemented.  

Our Orange County Brady Chapter congratulates Amanda and all our chapters in this major victory!

(If you would like a copy of the Judgment, please email us for a FDF file.)

National Gun Violence Awareness Day is June 2nd

Gun Violence Prevention Awareness Month was created in 2013 as an effort to raise awareness surrounding the issue of needless and senseless gun violence in New York’s communities. The focus of this effort is to lead a bipartisan charge to concentrate annual heightened attention to gun violence and gun safety each June.  New York made history by becoming the first state in the nation to designate an entire month to the issue of gun violence.  

Next month, all GVP groups have teamed up to promote orange as the color of our cause.  The idea was inspired by a group of Chicago teens who asked their classmates to commemorate the life of a slain friend by wearing orange.  They chose the color because hunters wear orange to announce themselves to other hunters when out in the woods.  Their friend — Hadiya Pendleton, a 15 year old high school student — marched in President Obama’s second inaugural parade and was tragically shot and killed back in Chicago just a week later.  This June 2nd would have been Hadiya’s 18th birthday; First Lady Michelle Obama will deliver the commencement address at what would have been Hadiya’s graduation ceremony on June 9th.  

Learn more here.  

Please consider putting the above orange banner on your Facebook and Tweeter accounts.  Lets show support for common sense gun violence on this special day and month!