Intended to include this pic of a beautiful tube-fed lever action.
Posted on 08/11/2013 12:33:33 PM PDT by NoLibZone
A spate of gun-control bills could put California in the lead when it comes to restricting firearms.
According to the San Jose Mercury News, the gun-control bills, which include proposals to ban a wide range of semi-automatic rifles and strict new regulations on ammunition, could reignite the national debate that erupted after a gunman killed 20 children and six adults at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school last year.
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Mock all you want but can you name one culture war defeat that hasn't first started in the DNC owned state?
Failing the Constitution, we can go further back in time:
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security . . .
This Texas federal appeal and its Georgia companion, Doe v. Bolton, post, p. 179, present constitutional challenges to state criminal abortion legislation. The Texas statutes under attack here are typical of those that have been in effect in many States for approximately a century.
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How many people there were shot with rifles vs handguns?
I fond it difficult to believe that of all the things won in regards to the 2A (CCW in 50 states etc), that CA is actually a canary in the coal mine this time.
There are violent people in this nation, and I just do not see all of the soccer moms who just bought their first gun and CCW giving up this right easily. I could be wrong, but I believe and hope this sort of nonsense will be isolated to the loony left states, until SCOTUS deems to strike it down.
So much evil in California that it’s become the majority. Must not give good people the ability to defend against it.
Take any two gun crime cases in California. One, a law abiding citizen using a firearm illegally to protect and defend themselves against bad guys. Take another, a criminal using a firearm to rob or murder. Which one will get more time?
The guy who pays his taxes, works for a living, and has never broken the law.
Can you give us an example, or is this just something you believe to be true with nothing to back it up?
Belt-fed it is then.
I like your sense of humor. I was thinking of a non-magazine rifle I own (unless it was lost in the Great Boating Accident or 2012, when my canoe rammed 3,000 others on Lake Superior), but your answer is better.
Intended to include this pic of a beautiful tube-fed lever action.
I am not a lawyer so can somebody tell me how California can get away with gun control measures that have been overturned in other states based on a SCOTUS ruling?
Perfect timing. The idiots are also discussing releasing 10K criminals from prison in the state.
And to think, for years they said they ONLY wanted to control handguns! Rifles and shotguns would not be affected!
Belt-fed it is then.
Thank you, GreyHoundSailor! I needed that.
California gun owners have learned from that. No one goes before their committees anymore to tell them what's wrong with the bill. If you post a critique of the bills faults on Calguns it will disappear quickly. As with most things liberal their overreach is their undoing. California gun owners want the laws passed with problems intact.
California gun owners have learned a couple of other lessons from liberals as well; venue shopping and good plaintiff selection. The liberals are very happy to forget what happened to AB 692 two years ago but the same fate awaits most of these bills as well if they pass. The law will go before a judge in one of the solid red areas of California (far and away most of the state), just before it is supposed to take effect, it will promptly be declared unconstitutional and then it will be forgotten about.
Most of these liberals came of age when they hand awards out for just showing up and they'll crow to their SF/LA constituents about the law they passed and never mention it was subsequently thrown out. Or else they'll trumpet how the "gun lobby" or the NRA went after their law and how they need to be reelected to stand up to them. It's just so much liberal Kabuki theater.
In grade school I had ‘The Rifleman’ lunchbox. Nowadays, most kids don’t even know what a lunchbox is, and one like mine would get you kicked out of school.
Belt-fed weapons don’t have magazines. Just sayin’.
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