Please Contact the Members of the Committee Today!
House Bill 7834, the "microstamping" proposal sponsored by State Representatives Joseph Almeida (D-12), Edith Ajello (D-3), Anastasia Williams (D-9), Grace Diaz (D-11), and Joanne Giannini (D-7) has been referred to the House Finance Committee after being pulled from the agenda of the House Judiciary Committee. Sensing a possible lack of support in the Judiciary Committee, typically the panel with expertise on firearms-related legislation, the bill's sponsors had it referred to another committee where H7834 could get a hearing and be voted on at any time.
Its companion bill, Senate Bill 2720, introduced by State Senators Harold Metts (D-6), Juan Pichardo (D-2) and Paul Jabour (D-5), is being held up for further study in the Senate Committee on Judiciary.
H7834 and S2720 would ban the sale of semi-automatic handguns not equipped with so-called "microstamping" technology. Microstamping is an unproven technology that would require identifying marks to be etched into the firing pin and breech face of a firearm in such a manner that these marks are transferred to the cartridge case upon firing. The technology can easily be defeated with common household tools, has no public safety value, and will add substantially to the cost of the firearm.
Please contact the members of the House Finance Committee as well as the members of the Senate Committee on Judiciary IMMEDIATELY and respectfully urge them to oppose H7834 and S2720 respectively!
Contact information for the House Finance Committee and the State Senate Committee on Judiciary can be found below.
House Finance Committee
State Representative Steven M. Costantino (D-8) – Chairperson
(401) 521-1313
[email protected]
State Representative Kenneth Carter (D-31) – Vice Chair
(401) 294-9183
[email protected]
State Representative William San Bento Jr. (D-58) – Secretary
(401) 727-0276
[email protected]
State Representative Joseph S. Almeida (D-12)
(401) 467-7033
[email protected]
State Representative Raymond C. Church (D-48)
(401) 762-1875
[email protected]
State Representative Elizabeth M. Dennigan (D-62)
(401) 434-8525
[email protected]
State Representative J. Russell Jackson (D-73)
(401) 848-7979
[email protected]
State Representative Robert B. Jacquard (D-17)
(401) 943-7799
[email protected]
State Representative Peter L. Lewiss (D-37)
(401) 596-9951
[email protected]
State Representative Victor G. Moffitt (R-28)
(401) 821-1299
[email protected]
State Representative Carol A. Mumford (R-41)
(401) 647-3251
[email protected]
State Representative Eileen S. Naughton (D-21)
(401) 738-7928
[email protected]
State Representative Henry C. Rose (D-63)
(401) 435-5921
[email protected]
State Representative John A. Savage (R-65)
(401) 437-0466
[email protected]
State Representative John P. Shanley Jr. (D-35)
(401) 789-9055
[email protected]
State Representative Thomas C. Slater (D-10)
(401) 461-4554
[email protected]
State Senate Committee on Judiciary:
State Senator Michael J. McCaffrey (D-29), Chairperson
(401) 739-7576
[email protected]
State Senator Charles J. Levesque (D-11), Vice Chairperson
(401) 683-9194
[email protected]
State Senator Leonidas P. Raptakis (D-33), Secretary
(401) 397-2720
[email protected]
State Senator Leo R. Blais (R-21)
(401) 823-4536
[email protected]
State Senator Daniel P. Connors (D-19)
(401) 728-0828
[email protected]
State Senator Paul V. Jabour (D-5)
[email protected]
State Senator Christopher B. Maselli (D-25)
[email protected]
State Senator John F. McBurney, III (D-15)
(401) 725-2459
[email protected]
State Senator Harold M. Metts (D-6)
(401) 272-0112
[email protected]
State Senator Rhoda E. Perry (D-3)
(401) 751-7165
[email protected]
State Senator John C. Revens, Jr. (31-D)
(401) 822-2900
[email protected]
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