Posted on 05/03/2013 5:27:10 AM PDT by Altariel
In a state facing over $34 billion in debt, Gov. Jerry Brown signs a bill spending $24 million on literally going after guns bought legally by people who later entered a status that the government thinks should bar them from a key tool for the basic human right of self-defense.
The Los Angeles Times reports:
The state will send dozens of new agents into California neighborhoods this summer to confiscate nearly 40,000 handguns and assault rifles from people barred by law from owning firearms, officials said Wednesday.
The plan received the green light Wednesday, when Gov.Jerry Brown signed legislation providing $24 million to clear the backlog of weapons known to be in the hands of about 20,000 people who acquired them legally. They were later disqualified because of criminal convictions, restraining orders or serious mental illness.....
"This bipartisan bill makes our communities safer by giving law enforcement the resources they need to get guns out of the hands of potentially dangerous individuals," said Evan Westrup, a spokesman for the governor.
"Potentially dangerous." We are now confiscating property and denying core constitutional rights based on potential.
And why is it that gun owners shouldn't care about gun registries, again?
California is the only state in the nation to operate a database that cross-references gun owners with those who are subsequently disqualified from owning firearms. But budget cuts have prevented the state Department of Justice from keeping up with the list, which grows by 15 to 20 names every day, officials said.
The new funds will allow the department to hire 36 additional special agents and support staff, with the first officers expected to hit the streets in July....
The new agents will work primarily in cities including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, Fresno and Riverside, which have requested additional help, Gledhill said. The effort is expected to take three years.
"Our reinvestment in this tracking program gives us the opportunity to confiscate" guns from those who should not have them, said state Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), author of the legislation.
Never let the "opportunity to confiscate" fade, Senator! Already existing programs for this purpose "investigated nearly 4,000 people and seized about that same number of weapons, including 300 assault weapons, during the last two years, officials said."
It needs to be said often: even these "common sense" measures overwhelmingly violate the rights of those who would never, ever use their weapons to harm anyone far more than they contribute to public safety.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F1nPSNnaBo
only 2 minutes - pass it on after viewing. it is going viral ...
And all of this while CA prepares to release criminals prematurely.
Since the release of the survey that shows 29% feel we will have an armed revolution, they will immediately be looking for those people. Put your tin-foil hat on because they will claim to have read yor mind. If you disagree with the government then you must agree with the revolution. Therefore, gimme your gun, your dangerous.
And remember, it all starts in CA.
Good point. And after a few agents of the government die they will then have ample excuse, complete with live news footage, to escalate the crackdown.
I can easily see this becoming a government provocation used as a publicity campaign waged against evil gun owners. The public may see a few gun battles, dead government overlords, perhaps an innocent civilian, and then decide that all gun owners are evil Tea Party outlaws and then support gun confiscation because no one is responsible to own guns except the government overlords who are there to merely “protect” everyone... until all the guns are confiscated.
And how many innocent citizens will die when the SWAT Team picks the wrong house or the data in the database is wrong?
This is a really stupid action by CA. This will not end well for the State or the Citizens.
A database with 20,000 names? Do you know the accuracy of the data? Anyone who has ever worked with a Government Database is aware of Garbage In/Garbage Out.
Calif. may speed inmate releases to ease crowding
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—California may speed up the release of some inmates while allowing other inmates with a violent history to become firefighters, under a proposal to cut crowding in state prisons filed by Gov. Jerry Brown late Thursday night. Brown filed the plan "under protest," said Corrections Secretary Jeffrey Beard. Brown warned that the options he presented to the court would undermine public safety, and Beard reiterated that the state plans to appeal in an attempt to avoid going through with the measures.
At the same time ol’Jer Brown remains frightened of the street gangs ~ he’ll never attempt to tackle the real cause of California’s murder and violence.
“And remember, it all starts in CA.”
NY beat ‘em to the punch this time.
This is not going to end well. Governor Moonbeam has had one peyote high too many. Bloodshed is more than likely.
Kalifornistan is bankrupt, but still has money for oppression.
Wonderful.
“Sorry officer, I lost those guns in a canoeing mishap. Yep, all 22 of them.”
This SHOULD not end well. Not for these petty tyrants and their thugs acting under unConstitutional, anti-freedom, and completely repugnant orders.
It’s one thing to take David Berkowitz’s .44 Magnum away from him while incarcerating him. It’s something completely different going after Daniel Johnson’s 12 ga and 9mm because he was on Zoloft while quitting smoking 5 yeas ago. Or taking Christina Jones’ .380 away from her because she complained of post partum depression after having her last child 11 years ago.
It used to be that we’d take the above hypothetical people as an example of someone arguing something absurd because “it would never happen here.”
Well? It’s HAPPENING RIGHT NOW.
It’s not a “revolution”. We’ve had that. They have over turned the Republic and sh*t-canned the Constitution.
We need a Restoration.
And yeah, we ARE dangerous. We’re going to need to be even more so if we want out of this...
Better make sure they have plenty of these on hand.
When Social Security became the law we were assured that the SSN would not become a personal ID number.
We all know how that worked out.
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