Tomorrow, Thursday, June 30, the Majority Party of the California State Assembly will be attempting to swiftly pass a sweeping number of bills that would further restrict the individual rights, provided by the US Constitution, of lawful owners of firearms and rifles throughout our state. This was a last-minute maneuver to force these bills through with limited transparency and dialogue. As you would guess, I will be voting against all of these. If you do not live in East County, I encourage you to contact your Assemblymember and encourage them to vote against these measures.
Here is a list of bills and a brief summary:
SB 880 (Hall) – all firearms with detachable magazines = prohibited assault weapons
SB 894 (Jackson) – creates a crime for failure to report stolen firearm within 5 days and/or report recovery of the firearm within 48 hours.
SB 1235 (De León) – amends Newsom’s initiative – requires a separate background check each time ammunition is purchased or transferred
SB 1446 (Hancock) – criminalizes possession of “large-capacity magazine” no matter when or how acquired.
AB 857 (Cooper) – requires person who manufactures or assembles a firearm to first apply for and receive a unique serial number from DOJ
AB 1511 (Santiago) – prohibits loaning of firearms.
SJR 20 (Hall) – calls for federal study on “gun violence.”
AB 1135 (Levine) – Assault weapons – bans firearms with bullet buttons
AB 1673 (Gipson) – Requiring registration of gun parts –
AB 1695 (Bonta) – Making it a crime to falsely report your gun was lost or stolen and making that crime subject to a 10-year prohibition on owning/possessing firearms
AB 1674 (Santiago) – Limits all guns, not just handguns, to one purchase a month
Comments 4
Natasha Sweatte, communications director for Poway Weapons & Gear Range, wrote a great rebuttal to conventional wisdom on “assault” weapons.
http://timesofsandiego.com/opinion/2016/06/29/setting-record-straight-assault-weapons/
How are they going to enforce all these, other than selectively?
DisArmageddon.
Between this and the threat to Prop13 it may be time to leave this place to gungrabbers, freeloaders and the government that loves them.