By DrVino
Going by the figures in a recent L.A. Times article, there are about 9.5 million gun owners in California, or 25% of the state’s population. Yet our legislators (in an obscene gesture of sycophancy toward the Dear Ruler, or a pissing contest with New York State non-reading legislators – or both) see fit to slap more still more gun laws on those 9.5 million law-abiding citizens. Despite the fact that we already have the strictest restrictions, regulations, waiting periods, magazine limits, bullet buttons…and a gun crime rate which has been declining by about 3% to 4% per annum…and the prisoner realignment program is a good idea…and our DOJ has one of the lowest gun crime prosecution rtes in the country . . .
So, it’s easy for the average gun owner on the outside to shrug their shoulders and suggest California gun owners move or simply write this state off as a loss. After all, they live in Arizona, Texas, or Georgia.
Voting with one’s feet is a luxury for those with no significant extended family, career and financial attachments. Or of the financially independent blog publishers. The rest of us must stay and roll over or fight. And we must fight – because while the NRA calls me asking for donations, they (and most on the pro-2A side) seem to forget the adage that “As goes California, so goes the nation.”
So, a fight for gun rights in California is a fight for gun rights in the nation as a whole. The fight in California is going to be huge and it’s going to be brutal and it’s going to be long. We are facing nearly 50 anti-gun bills, three of which have already passed out of committee.
On April 16th, another eight bills – including a bullet button ban and a semi-auto ban will be heard in committee. Said committee is not too keen on hearing discussion, especially from the opposing side. So much so that a few months ago, they held a hearing without the requisite amount of prior notice to the public. Now they’ve restricted witness testimony to two witnesses per side. And a whopping two minutes per witness.
Thus, Gun Rights Across America-California, along with other groups of activist California gun owners will protest these bills on April 16th. We need people to show up at the Capitol at 8:00am to present firm, but peaceful opposition to those infringing on our constitutionally-guaranteed rights.
If you are a California resident, contact Gun Rights Across America-California via email at [email protected] or find us on Facebook.
Cheaper than dirt needs to rename their company expensive as hell. This is another company gouging the very people that keep them in business,they wont get any more of mine.
It’s wrong to blow away these loons with your piece, this isn’t something a “civilized ” society does. Now they’re just going to pump poison in his veins if convicted, much much more civilized, Randy
This will be a long fight, indeed. The bad states are deepening their violations, while the good states are strengthening the protections of our rights–this from NPR yesterday (well, they didn’t put my moral judgement on the new laws). Gun control freaks can’t understand why the whole of the country won’t go along with their innermost desires, and they’ll stop at nothing to see that our rights are erased from public consciousness. We must fight them in the state legislatures, fight them in the courts, fight them in Congress and in city hall, fight them in newspapers and blogs and television. Above all, we must never compromise.
/Churchill.
For your information Uncle Remus, America allows you to lip off like that without getting shot in the public square…
Where did he learn to talk like that Michelle Obama?
I’d like to share a revelation that I’ve had during my time here.
It came to me when… I tried to classify your species. I realized that you’re not actually mammals.
Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you Californians do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Californians are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague, and we… are the cure.
All I can say is, good luck. You’re going to need it.
That is an astoundingly poor design. How did that not get laughed down before it left the drawing board?
I still have no idea why anybody would ever want this? What’s it for? Please enlighten me!
Well it’s certainly not another 1911 clone.
I remember reading about this few a weeks after the shooting. She’s a member or was a member of the school security council, or something to that effect. She notified the campus police that the shooter posed a danger to himself and others but since he was leaving the school, they didn’t act.
As a Kalifornian gun owner, I have been keeping close track of what has been happening. Here’s a run down of the current bills:
On the 2nd, AB’s 48, 500, and 169 were heard. These are the three that Mr. DeVino referred to as passed out of committee.
AB 48: Bans the sale of magazine parts kits, bans the sale or transfer of ammunition by anyone other than an FFL, and the FFL must report all ammunition transfers to the state. This would effectively create a state database of who is buying ammo, and what they are buying. It would also make it a crime to loan ammunition.
AB 500: Expands the waiting period to 15 days, and gives the DOJ new powers to be able to deny guns to law-abiding people.
AB 169: Bans the sale of guns no longer on California’s roster of approved handguns. Some guns have been removed from the lists over time, and this bill would make it so if you own one of those, you can never sell it. Legally.
On Monday the 15th, 1 bill is being heard. It is:
AB 760: Imposes a sales tax of 0.5 cents per ammunition COMPONENT (complete cartridge, bullet or case). It would make reloading prohibitively expensive.
On Tuesday the 16th (when the protests are being scheduled), 8 bills are being heard:
SB 47: Bans rifles with bullet buttons, redefines “assault weapon” as ALL semi-auto magazine fed rifles (rimfire or centerfire), and requires registration of said rifles.
SB 53: Requires you to purchase an annual ammunition purchase permit before buying ammunition, requires you to present your permit and give your thumbprint every time you buy ammo, and bans the online and mail order sales of ammunition to CA.
SB 108: Requires mandatory locked storage of firearms at all times, regardless of if you are home or not.
SB 293: Bans the sale of conventional handguns, if the state DOJ approves the sale of “Owner Authorized – Smart” handgun technology (you know, that technology that doesn’t exist).
SB 299: Requires you to report the loss of your firearm within 48 hours.
SB 374: Bans the sale of any rifle that is semi auto, or accepts a detachable magazine, or both, and requires the registration of previously owned rifles as “assault rifles” in order to retain possession.
SB 396: Bans the possession of any magazine that holds over 10 rounds. Confiscates registered, grandfathered magazines.
Finally,
SB 567: CHANGES THE TECHNICAL DEFINITION OF A SHOTGUN, TURNING ALL HANDGUNS INTO NFA-REGULATED SHORT-BARRELED SHOTGUNS, MAKING ALL HANDGUNS ILLEGAL TO OWN IN CALIFORNIA.
Yes that last one exists. This is something that could (probably will) happen. It’s a clusterfuck over here.
You most certainly will not see my axx in line to register my semi-auto long guns! Come find them!
An ergonomic trainwreck that requires you to you to place your fingers almost to the muzzle when attempting to “cock” or better yet, “reset”. Enjoy those fingertips while you have them kids.
Perfect accessory for the mall ninja crowd AR though – “You dawg, we heard you like w@nker-railed popguns. So we put a miniature w@nker-railed popgun on your w@nker-railed popgun! “
Come to Sunny Phoenix Arizona!
I’ll even help you test them.
How many car dealerships are closed when someone causes a multicar pileup? I could ask many similar questions, but you see the point.
Meanwhile we’ll close down Budweiser because the guy who killed some people while drunk driving had drank of the their beverages…
“What part of ‘shall not be infringed’ do you not understand?” the gun-rights advocate asks. “What part of ‘a well regulated Militia’ do you not understand?” goes the retort”
Then the retort should go “well regulated Militia” doesn’t mean what it has become in modern times. It means well supplied, informed, and disciplined in the methods and tools of defense.
http://www.constitution.org/cons/wellregu.htm
The meaning of the phrase “well-regulated” in the 2nd amendment
The following are taken from the Oxford English Dictionary, and bracket in time the writing of the 2nd amendment:
1709: “If a liberal Education has formed in us well-regulated Appetites and worthy Inclinations.”
1714: “The practice of all well-regulated courts of justice in the world.”
1812: “The equation of time … is the adjustment of the difference of time as shown by a well-regulated clock and a true sun dial.”
1848: “A remissness for which I am sure every well-regulated person will blame the Mayor.”
1862: “It appeared to her well-regulated mind, like a clandestine proceeding.”
1894: “The newspaper, a never wanting adjunct to every well-regulated American embryo city.”
The phrase “well-regulated” was in common use long before 1789, and remained so for a century thereafter. It referred to the property of something being in proper working order. Something that was well-regulated was calibrated correctly, functioning as expected. Establishing government oversight of the people’s arms was not only not the intent in using the phrase in the 2nd amendment, it was precisely to render the government powerless to do so that the founders wrote it.
Hey, if they can get the requisite 2/3 Senate and 2/3 state to support it, by all means, go ahead and try.
Until then, shut the hell up and leave us responsible citizens alone.
I congratulate Mr. Zachary Elkins. He writes clear truth. The issue of gun control by legislating a zillion stupid useless rules e.g. magazine size, model number, registration, etc. is, at it heart, a lie. The root issue is whether a free people can own and possess an instrument whose primary purpose is to kill. Target practice and deer are nice, but the second change to our basic law was clearly meant to stay alive in a dangerous world. The exact same issue, and risk, is extant today. Criminals, by definition, do not obey the law. Killers kill, it is plain truth.
Armed we are free, disarmed we can easily become slaves, or cadavers; this is the history of the world. Now that all the political lying has been exposed, it falls to the gun control proponents to revise our basic law. As the lawyers say, at long last, we are at issue. And as Benjamin Franklin advised, “You have a Republic, if you can keep it.”
I have a friend that lost a lung as a child shooting a .22 at a tree. Bounced off a nail right back at him. Shit happens, think ahead.
Freedom of information act request to get the details of the whys and wherefores from the Feds themselves? Anyone?
But I *am* an extremist.
I will remain one.
It’s a requirement if we expect to thwart the efforts of those who would try to strip our rights from us.
They can ban whatever they want. I will not comply.
They can require registration. I will not comply.
The can require finger-printing. I will not comply.
They can try to collect us in the night. They will not find me.
I will come for them, and Hell is coming with me.
There are millions of me.
The common thread here seems to be security guards. Maybe the problem is power tripping rent-a-cops.
yeah, that is smart. Back log them even more than they already are, so gun owning citizens that are unfortunate enough to reside in NY, and are awaiting their forms to be processed, are left out in the cold come april 15th. Despite what you may believe, or want to believe, not all of us living in NY are the enemy, or the sheeple letting them pull the wool over our eyes. Maybe, if you actually did some research on the demographics of New York State, you would find that pretty much anything East of the Hudson should be considered its own socialist nation, while pretty much west of the hudson are a bunch of gun loving hill billies. I am the latter, and there are a lot of us who do not like being forced into the same category as those downstate. I live right on Lake Ontario, Just East of rochester. About as far from what you think is New York as possible.
When I hike I (usually) trade the LCR for my SP101. The latter I can shoot one handed better, could thumb the hammer if I so desire, kinda important as my week hand more often than not has the dogs leash.
But I still carry 38’s. few bears around here, maybe some two legged varmints, but I worry more about stray dogs. YMMV. If I was in bear country I might still not carry for bear.
very nice, but frankly the biggest concern i have in a self defense situation is overpenetration. what i really wonder is, how many layers of drywall beyond the watermelon did it go.
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