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When it comes to political flips, it would be tough to beat the acrobatics of Assemblyman Leland Yee. In the final 48 hours of the Legislature's 2006 session, the San Francisco Democrat managed to both brag about co-authoring a landmark gun control bill and then, at the urging of Republican gun fans, turn around and help kill the very same bill. The measure, AB352 by Democratic Assemblyman Paul Koretz of West Hollywood, would have required new semiautomatic handguns sold in California to leave a microscopic number on the back of shell casings, to make it easier to identify the offending...

Knight Ridder Newspapers WALNUT CREEK, Calif. - California could become the first state in the nation to require semi-automatic handguns include microscopic equipment for pressing an identifying mark into every bullet fired. Through newly developed technology, the firing pin of a semi-automatic weapon can stamp the gun's make and model onto a bullet shell as it leaves the chamber. The technology could help police investigate homicides and trace gun trafficking. Thirty-three California police chiefs support a bill, sponsored by Assemblyman Paul Koretz, a West Hollywood Democrat, that would require the markers. "It has the potential to solve some significant crimes...

California could become the first state in the nation to require semi-automatic handguns include microscopic equipment for pressing an identifying mark into every bullet fired. Through newly developed technology, the firing pin of a semi-automatic weapon can stamp the gun's make and model onto a bullet shell as it leaves the chamber. The technology could help police investigate homicides and trace gun trafficking. Thirty-three California police chiefs and two county sheriffs support a bill, sponsored by Assemblyman Paul Koretz, D-West Hollywood, that would require the markers. "It has the potential to solve some significant crimes in some pretty large numbers,"...

Attempt to impose death penalty moratorium fails in Assembly TOM CHORNEAU Associated Press SACRAMENTO - An attempt to impose a two-year moratorium on carrying out California's death penalty failed to pass a key Assembly committee Thursday, ending its chances for the year. Assemblyman Paul Koretz, D-West Hollywood, vowed to revive his bill later and blamed election-year politics for its demise. "There are enough Democrats that are worried that this would be misinterpreted - as it intentionally has been - that we made an agreement not to bring it up unless we were sure it would pass," he said after the...

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATIVE ALERT RE: SB 840 – Socialized Medicine Author: Senator Sheila Kuehl Position: Strongly OPPOSE Status: In California State Senate Summary of Concerns: SB 840 is an aggressive plan to bring socialized medicine into California by replacing private health insurance with a mandatory state-run program for every California resident. SB 840 will: 1) force every California resident above poverty level to pay a state insurance premium (hidden tax); 2) destroy the current system of choices of health care coverage; 3) drive up the cost of health care coverage; 4) reduce the quality of health care available; 5) reduce the...

In any given year, perhaps a third of the people infected with hepatitis C and more than 15 percent of those with AIDS spend time behind bars. With infection levels far higher than in the outside world, the jails and prisons are a potential public health menace. Officials have a special duty to curb the spread of disease among the more than 11 million people who pass through the system each year. No one knows for sure how many people pick up H.I.V. while incarcerated. But a 2002 survey of prisoners' own estimates found that about 44 percent of the...

NRA Members' Councils of California Please Distribute Widely To All Gun Owners/Groups -----------------------------------NRA MEMBERS' COUNCILS OF CALIFORNIA 06/10/2003 ----------------------------------- In the latest "News Briefs", Tony reveals some interesting details on the dirty anti-gunner tricks Paul Koretz used to SQUEAK (passed by 1 vote) his .50 CALIBER RIFLE BAN through the Assembly. That this atrocity just BARELY made it bodes well for stopping the bill (AB 50) before it gets to Gray Davis' desk! Check out Anthony's latest at:http://NRAMembersCouncils.com/newsbriefs/And get the latest RKBA-related CA legislative info at: http://NRAMembersCouncils.com/legs.shtml ---------------------- DON'T MISS... ---------------------- * WAYNE V. CNN - Wayne LaPierre takes...

KeepAndBearArms.com -- Stereotypes are a common part of American culture. Often as not they are based on a grain of truth wrapped in a mile of exaggeration. While most of us enjoy a good laugh at the wacky world of California politics, a rational man might think that accounts of strange thinking on the Left Coast, like any good bass fishing story, were a little larger than life. After spending two days in the halls of California state government in Sacramento, it is apparent that the inmates are running the asylum. California is struggling with the biggest budget crisis in...

CAL-ERT 04/23/02 1:45 P. M. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Today's Legislative Activity - AB2222 http://www.nramemberscouncils.com/calerts/calert042302.shtml AB2222 (Koretz) was voted on Today, April 23, 2002, in the Assembly Public Safety Committee.  AB2222 FAILED TO GET ENOUGH VOTES TO PASS!  To all of you that repeatedly contacted the legislature in opposition to AB2222, THANK  YOU ! ! !  Your efforts were successful.  AB2222 would have banned and/or heavily restricted the ownership, possesion and use of .50 caliber rifles.  AB2222 failed due to the votes of members of the Assembly Public Safety Committee from both parties.  Voting "NO" were Assembly Members Washington (Chairman), Dickerson, Keeley, and...