Yes, because...
...makes our streets just a little bit safer by making it harder for large scale phone trafficking syndicates to operate in the open ...
When I go out after dark, my greatest fear is of being mugged by phone traffickers...
I'm not sure which would be worse:
a) if this were just another fevered dream of a misinformed politician, or
b) if such organizations really do exist and succeed...
Of course, if these syndicates are selling the unlocked phones in foreign jurisdictions where the prohibition against unlocking doesn't exist, how does this law affect them anyway? Also, if they're breaking the law to obtain the phones in the first place, is this provision really going to stop them in their tracks?