Smith & Wesson to Halt Some Sales Over California Law
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Smith & Wesson Holding Corp. said it will stop offering new versions of semiautomatic pistols in California because of a law requiring the weapons to stamp identifying data onto bullet casings when the guns are fired.
The law, signed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2007, requires that new or updated semiautomatic handgun models be equipped to imprint the make, model and serial number of the gun on each cartridge case, using a technique known as microstamping.