CA: Call to Action for May!

[TheSaint]

http://www.nraila.org/legislation/st...committee.aspx

There's a huge shovel of in-your-face madness coming down the pipeline here in California. I urge all Californians to light up the email inboxes and phone lines to all of our local representatives to stop the unprecedented assault on our individual rights. If not stopped, many of us will become criminals unknowingly. Read all of the details below and make your voice heard, spread the word and get others involved. These anti-gun lunatics must be stopped.

Your state Legislators must hear your OPPOSITION of these anti-gun bills TODAY



The assault on our Second Amendment rights continues with anti-gun bills moving through the California Legislature. Unfortunately, there are several anti-gun bills that have been scheduled to be considered on the state Senate and Assembly floor with more anti-guns bills scheduled to be heard in their respective state Senate and Assembly committee. Please call and e-mail your state Senator and Assemblyman, along with members of the respective state Senate and Assembly committee urging them to OPPOSE the anti-gun measures below.

The following three anti-gun Senate bills are currently scheduled for a vote on the Senate floor and could be brought up for that vote as early as Monday, May 6. Please contact your state Senator and respectfully urge him or her to OPPOSE these anti-gun bills. Contact information for your state Senator can be found here.

Senate Bill 108 (Yee) requires mandatory locked storage of firearms within a locked house regardless of whether anyone is present.

Senate Bill 299 (DeSaulnier) turns victims of firearm theft into criminals for failing to report the loss of their firearm within 48 hours.

Senate Bill 475 (Leno) requires the prior approval of the board of supervisors of both the County of San Mateo and the City and County of San Francisco to allow a gun show at the Cow Palace. This would allow the local anti-gun politicians to BAN the gun show.

The anti-gun Assembly bill below is currently scheduled for a vote on the Assembly floor and could be brought up as early as Monday, May 6. Please contact your Assemblyman and respectfully urge him or her to OPPOSE these anti-gun bills. Contact information for your Assemblyman can be found here.

Assembly Bill 169 (Dickinson) BANS the sale of handguns not on the state-approved roster. This bill is so flawed that the provisions will BAN the sale of millions of old and used handguns CURRENTLY owned by Californians by dealers and PRIVATE PARTY transfers.

The following six anti-gun Senate bills will be heard in the state Senate Appropriations Committee on Monday, May 6. Contact information for members of the state Senate Appropriations Committee can be found here.

Senate Bill 47 (Yee) expands the definition of “assault weapons” to BAN the future sale of rifles that have been designed/sold and are equipped to use the “bullet button” or similar device, requires NEW “assault weapon” registration of ALL those semi-auto rifles that are currently possessed to retain legal possession in the future, and subjects these firearms to all other “assault weapons” restrictions.

Senate Bill 53 (DeLeon) requires persons to buy an annual ammunition purchase permit, requires the registration and thumbprint of the purchaser for each ammunition purchase, and bans online and mail order sales of ammunition to Californians.

Senate Bill 374 (Steinberg) expands the definition of "assault weapons" to BAN the future transfer of all semi-auto rifles that accept detachable magazines (including those chambered for rimfire cartridges) and virtually all semi-auto rifles with fixed magazines (primarily those chambered for rimfire cartridges), requires NEW "assault weapon" registration, requires registration of ALL those semi-auto rifles that are currently possessed to retain legal possession in the future, and subjects these firearms to all other "assault weapon" restrictions.

Senate Bill 396 (Hancock) BANS the POSSESSION of any magazine with a capacity to accept more than ten cartridges, including currently legally possessed "grandfathered large capacity” magazines.

Senate Bill 567 (Jackson) expands the definition of shotgun for “short-barreled shotguns” that are illegal to own. The current definition in the proposed law is so flawed it can include reclassify handguns shooting "Shot-shells" as shotguns.

Senate Bill 755 (Wolk) expands the list of persons prohibited from owning a firearm, including persons who have operated cars and boats while they are impaired commonly referred to as DUI.



The anti-gun Assembly bill below is scheduled to be heard in the Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee on Monday, May 6. Contact information for the Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee can be found here.

Assembly Bill 187 (Bonta) imposes an addition ten percent sales tax on ammunition.



The anti-gun Assembly bill below is scheduled to be heard in the Assembly Public Safety Committee on Tuesday, May 7. Contact information for the Assembly Public Safety Committee can be found here.

Assembly Bill 180 (Bonta) repeals California’s firearm preemption law by granting Oakland an exemption to enact unique laws regarding possession, registration, licensing and subjecting gun owners to unknowing criminal liability when travelling through Oakland.



The anti-gun Assembly bill below is scheduled to be heard in the Assembly Public Safety Committee on Wednesday, May 8. Contact information for the Assembly Appropriations Committee can be found here.

Assembly Bill 711 (Rendon) BANS the use of all lead ammunition for hunting. For more information about AB 711, click here.



Unfortunately, on May 1, Governor Brown signed Senate Bill 140 into law. SB 140 steals from law-abiding gun owners by raiding $24 million from the Dealers' Record of Sale (DROS) Special Account to fund the Department of Justice's backlog in the Armed Prohibited Persons System (APPS). The DROS Account is the collection of money from firearm purchasers that pays for the administrative process for background checks and registration. Unfortunately, with the DROS account having a surplus of funds, the California Department of Justice (DOJ) uses it like their own personal piggy bank and raids it whenever they feel like it.

The NRA initiated litigation last year on the Department of Justice continuing to charge excess DROS fees on EVERY firearms purchase and is in the discovery process for evidence. This fight over the continued misuse of DROS is NOT over and will continue in court.

You can write your representative here urging them to OPPOSE the anti-gun bills listed above. Please feel free to also copy and paste all the bill information to ensure your state legislators know which bills to OPPOSE.

You can also send a letter to all elected officials in California here. Please feel free to copy and paste all the bill information above to ensure the elected officials of California know which bills to OPPOSE.

You can also find information about anti-gun and pro-gun legislation in California at www.calnra.com.

[firesky101]

Emailed my senator and assembly person.

[Solo]

The first link is dead.

[Librarian]

http://www.nraila.org/legislation/st...spx?s=&st=&ps=

Odd - somehow "for-a-final" became "or-a-final" in the OP.

But the contents from the link were posted.

[Ryanxia]

Good luck guys, spread the word at your local gunshops, shooting ranges, Fish & Games, Cabella's, etc. Don't let your Rights be further eroded. Now is the time to act and draw a line in the sand. We've done very well on a national level of stopping this insane gun control push and many states have stood their ground well (with a few losses too).

Fight hard, don't give up. This is our Freedom we're fighting for, if it's not worth dedicating time/effort/money to defending it, what is?

[HKGuns]

You're just as screwed, or even more screwed than NY. I'm sure the nut bag politicians in your State will do their best to one up NY.

I wish you luck, but consider it a waste of time. Your best and likely only option is to leave and let them rot in the mess they've created. Fighting is valiant but not when you stand zero chance of winning. If good, tax paying citizens start leaving in numbers perhaps that will wake them up. However unlikely that may be.....

I still can't believe your State brought Jerry Brown back as Governor! That says all that needs to be said...

[TheSaint]

While things are not bright looking in CA, we have to fight as long as we're here. Some of us can't move due to family or work reasons. Not to mention, we don't want CA exporting our madness, no more than the honest folks of NY want their madness exported elsewhere either. Even if we don't stop the madness completely, we can at least slow it in case some gun owners want to make plans to leave the state. I don't blame them, but for those of us who remain, we have to fight as much as we can to keep this crazy behavior from infecting the rest of the union.

[HKGuns]

There are good jobs in every State in the union. That wouldn't stop me....family considerations would have to be pretty serious to keep me there.

[firesky101]

Keep the e-mails coming. AB169 has already passed the house and is in the senate for vote. This will keep us from acquiring ANY handgun not on the approved roster. Already here or not.

[danez71]

Originally Posted by firesky101

Keep the e-mails coming. AB169 has already passed the house and is in the senate for vote. This will keep us from acquiring ANY handgun not on the approved roster. Already here or not.

What I don't get about AB169 is that its a living document. Hand guns are added and dropped from the approved handgun roster based on mfg's submitting guns for testing and approval.

A handgun could be off the list today and be on it tomorrow and if the mfg lets it expire, be off the list again... but if the mfg sees the market has returned for the same model... submit for approval and get it back on the list again.

CA politicians are stupid

And with the way the list is set up....

S&W MP9c with-out thumb safety is on the approved list and the MP9c WITH the thumb safety is not on the list.

[Alizard]

We can call and email and scream until we are blue in the face. The problem is that the majority of Cali voters are behind gun control and the politicians know it.... so they are not going to come out against gun control because it will cost them their jobs.

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/mar...-poll-20130321

You have to understand how democracy works: the majority rules and in our state, the majority are idiots who want the government to round up all the guns. Period.

Californians are overwhelmingly in favor of strict gun control measures that impose background checks for all gun purchases and toughen penalties for illegally purchasing or using a gun, as well as enhancing efforts to keep guns away from the severely mentally ill, a new poll has found.

Sweeping majorities of California voters backed a proposed federal ban on the sale of assault weapons. They also backed state proposals to prohibit the possession of large-capacity magazines, background checks for the purchase of ammunition and a requirement that all gun owners be registered, licensed and insured, according to the USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll.

The findings often cut across demographic and political lines: Nine of ten gun owners and slightly more among non-owners favored background checks for all gun purchases. Eighty-seven percent of conservatives shared that position, along with 96% of liberals.

As for:

CA politicians are stupid

No, they are just politicians who go with the prevailing winds to protect their jobs. The voters are definitely stupid.