Read it and weep...
Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, unveiled the gun control package in a news conference Thursday at the state Capitol.
The package includes:
- Banning the possession — not just manufacture and sale — of magazines holding more than 10 rounds.
- Making possession of hollow point bullets and similar “assault bullets” a felony.
- Requiring anyone wishing to buy ammunition to first get a permit by passing a background check.
- Requiring the registration and reporting of all ammo purchases. Limits the number of rounds anyone can have at one time to 500 rounds.
- Requiring all gun owners will have to be licensed like drivers, and will be forced to carry gun liability insurance.
- Banning any gun that has a detachable magazine, and requires a 100% prohibition of all fixed magazines greater than 10 rounds.
- Making all previous grandfathered magazines become illegal, and it will become a felony if you keep one.
- Prohibiting anyone barred from owning a weapon from living in a home where weapons are kept
- Expanding the list of crimes that would bar a person from gun possession.
- Letting the state Justice Department use money from the state’s Dealer’s Record of Sale system to eliminate the backlog of people identified as no longer allowed to own guns but not yet investigated and contacted by law enforcement.
Good lord, I am happy to live in Arizona. I hope for my family in friends in Kaliforniastan that this nonsense is thrown out. What an embarrassing proposal.
ReplyDeleteThe fools in Sacramento have no shame whatsoever. Incapable of actually addressing any of their primary responsibilities to the state's citizens, they instead grab for headlines they can use to pat themselves on the back while staring lovingly at their own reflections in any mirror close at hand. Couple narcissism with an appalling amount of willful ignorance and you have a California state rep or senator. 'Sad how far we've fallen.
ReplyDeletei've said it as a joke and a punchline but there are stark and hardening differences between the west coast, east coast, chicago/illinois and the rest of the country.
ReplyDeleteit shows up now in these gun laws but it'll be reflected in other issues soon enough. we're getting to a point of where two countries is going to become a mainstream discussion.
"Prohibiting anyone barred from owning a weapon from living in a home where weapons are kept"
ReplyDeleteby definition anyone who doesn't go through the background check will be banned from owning a gun, therefore EVERYONE in the household would have to pass the background check before even one gun could be in the house.
And someone on another blog mentioned that children technically count as being prohibited from owning guns, so people with kids would therefore not be legally allowed to own a gun.
Children are already being pumped for info on whether daddy owns a gun and if daddy does he is reported to be endangering a child because of it. if the daddy is divorced from the mom then he is disallowed visitation rights to the children until he disarms.
DeleteFinger guns, paper pistols and now imaginary grenades are all on the lists of reasons to arrest children for hostile actions and gun crimes.
Imaginary grenades, how fuckin' stupid can people get?
California stupid thats how.
the supreme court is going to have to lay down a firmer grasp of what is and isn't allowed because the gun grabbers are going full bore on all this. i would think that at least some of this is unconstitutional, but even if it isn't its obvious that individual states are setting rules without federal over sight so why do we need federal intervention?
ReplyDeleteThere is a line of thinking that, that is exactly what they want by proposing these laws. Liberal writers like to bring up Scalia's comments below about"reasonable limitations". They want to force the Court to come down clearly on what those limitations are.
Deletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/29/antonin-scalia-guns_n_1715969.html
Thanks for throwing all "west-coasters" under the bus. You forget California is the land of Reagan. Like a lot of states (like here is Wash.) A liberal population center such as a SF an LA will try and dictate to the rest of the state. I can assure you as someone that grew up in NorCal and still has a shitload of relatives living and Hunting there, that NOBODY with a "Steinberg unapproved" gun is going to be giving it up.
ReplyDeleteThey tried something similar in Oak Harbor Washington a few days ago and the results were, shall we say, impressive. This is what needs to be happening. Instead of sitting here and whining about our liberties being eroded, man-up and show-up.
http://q13fox.com/2013/02/05/gun-toting-crowd-expected-at-oak-harbor-city-council-meeting/#axzz2KNwm5Qce
Seems the "left-coast" is showing up. What are ALL of YOU doing about it?
dude. you can get mad but the truth is in Kalifornia the damage is done. 10 round mags? bullet buttons? restrictive concealed carry? the deal is clear for anyone that wants to see. compared to Southern and Midwestern states (outside of Illinois) the West Coast is practically a communist camp.
DeleteI agree it's the basic city dweller vs rural dwellers one calls 911 when he gets in a jam the other may call a cop but is fully prepared to go it alone it's all about individuals as opposed to a mass population herded together in a soup of laws and crime.
DeleteCity dwellers are like cattle or sheep they need the shepherd or the cowboy to protect them, rural areas have people who can think and decide for themselves they are of a different breed self reliant and can usually see right through political bullshit.
Let's see if I get citizen Steinberg's logic: "assault" munitions are those _forbidden_ to military?
ReplyDeleteTake care.
I have an example, yesterday I awoke and headed out to feed the horses I saw a pick up parked in my driveway so I reached out and popped a small revolver into my pocket the guy said he wanted to discuss the car we had sitting in the yard was it for sale? Normal activity fer shure BUT the guy had this tear drop tattoo coming out of his right eye, prison tats for murder or rape and loss while in prison. So if I was unarmed and scared my only recourse would have been fleeing in fear to the phone to call the Sheriff (arrival time at best 30 minutes at worst 3 hours) and should the tat guy just be looking to buy a car I would have called the cops for nothing but since I was armed I simply stood outside his reach, hand on pistol and let him speak his piece. without getting the LEO involved.
ReplyDeleteWhat did happen was just normal buy/sell cars but it could have been much different.
two days ago a woman with kids encountered burglars in her home and one was armed she was also and willing to shoot and did running the perps off and making the armed one drop his stolen gun. These are bad economic times people are desperate and it pays to be suspicious and be prepared.