STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1113--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     January 8, 2015
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        Introduced  by Sens. PERALTA, AVELLA, SQUADRON -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes --
          recommitted to the Committee on Codes in accordance with  Senate  Rule
          6,  sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation  to  requiring  semiautomatic
          pistols manufactured or delivered to any licensed dealer in this state
          to be capable of microstamping ammunition
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
     2  the "crime gun identification act of 2016".
     3    §  2.  Legislative  findings and intent. The legislature finds that in
     4  2005, the national clearance rate for homicide cases  was  approximately
     5  60%  and  over  3,000 gun homicide cases went unsolved; that in approxi-
     6  mately half of gun homicide investigations a spent cartridge casing, but
     7  not a firearm, is recovered at the crime scene; that currently  deployed
     8  national  ballistic  identification  systems  cannot identify the serial
     9  number of a gun unless the gun itself has been recovered;  that  firearm
    10  microstamping  is  a  revolutionary forensic technology that produces an
    11  identifiable alpha-numeric and geometric  code  onto  the  rear  of  the
    12  cartridge  casing  each  time  a semiautomatic pistol is fired; that the
    13  alpha-numeric and geometric code on an expended  cartridge  casing  will
    14  provide  an initial lead for law enforcement by enabling law enforcement
    15  to match the cartridge casing found at a crime to the original owner  of
    16  the  firearm;  that  information  from completed crime gun tracing is an
    17  important element utilized by COMPSTAT and other crime analysis  systems
    18  to  target  illegal  firearms trafficking; that microstamping technology
    19  continues to  produce  identifiable  markings  onto  expended  cartridge
    20  casings  even after thousands of rounds of testing; that this additional
    21  tool will help law  enforcement  investigate  illegal  gun  trafficking,
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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