Thanks for all of your replies. The thing I was relying on more in such a shrewd move was that you call a bluff and see if the State of California folds. The only way it would work is if everyone refused to do business with them. You make the legislature make the next move. The fun manufacturers are refusing to do business with a state that has such restrictive laws. If the laws were to change, then the business resumes. The bad thing about this is, if such a thing were to happen, what is to stop officers from getting a firearms allowance from the state and then them having to pay for the firearms? We might be able to keep the departments from doing such a thing because the only way to get these goodies that are illegal for us common folk would be to provide a department letterhead. Bad part is the distributers probably would go for the money and sell it anyway or the legislature would say that a letterhead wouldn't be required to get past the law. That would just further the police/non-police divide.
So the only real way to do such a thing is to cut off the entire state. Is that such a hard thing to do? Anyone read Shotgun News? Look at all of the places who don't ship a whole lot of guns to the PRK. What would the backlash be like if the manufactures said on specified date, no more firearms will be sold to California addresses. Think of all of the sportsmen, politicians, and law enforcement who would be up in arms over this. Some of you say that is horrible, and it is a step backwards. I don't know, it seems to me to put a lot of pressure on the legislature to take action.
Think of it this way. We all have argued at one point or another that there is no way the anti's can just do an outright ban right? It would cause too many people to get really upset and actually do something right? So what are they doing? Piecemeal, one gun at a time. Here goes full-auto,there go the "assault weapons", next comes the "Saturday Night Specials", get rid of the .50 BMG, no more "sniper weapons"...on and on and on. Why not let the manufacturers skip the piecemeal and just throw California and say New Jersey away? Yeah, the people of that state are screwed. We are screwed anyway!!! After that, the legislature is either going to take action or they are not. Their police forces are going to be pissed as heck. We all know that the police and correctional officer unions don't have any swing in the PRK right??? The corrections union bought Grey Davis's campaign!!! You don't think they have any weight? When Mr. Trap shooter can't get a new trap gun, you think he is going to keep on being apathetic and not going to vote or not write any letters? Can't buy a new hunting rifle anymore? What are you going to do?
I mean when you think about it, what is the only thing that makes these bans work? There is a law enforcement exemption!!! The cops get the goods, the non-leo citizens gets nothing. You cut off the cops and the citizen at the source, what are they going to do now? The citizen doesn't lose anything, we already can't buy AR-15s, magazines over 10 rounds, or anything else that the rest of free America gets. It doesn't hurt any of us much. It will crush law enforcement. And for those of you who don't think law enforcement agencies and unions don't have pull, you need to think again.
Yeah it probably wouldn't work. Somone would probably cross the line and sell. However, if we continue the way we are going, what makes you think the rest of this country won't soon be like the PRK??? Look at this new AW ban they are thinking about putting together. It is more restrictive than the PRK ban!!! Doesn't that scare you guys? Doesn't that concern you that no matter how you vote, or how you feel about it, it might go through anyway? Welcome to PRK politics. Try as you might, you are outnumbered. These politicians will do what they want and to hell with you. And you want to pretend like voting is going to help anything?
Honestly, I think the rest of this country does have a chance. I think that the AW ban is going to die in Congress and I think it is going to happen because of the pressure the NRA puts on law-makers. I sure hope for the rest of this country I am right. I really don't want to see the rest of the country end up like the PRK. However, part of me does want to see everyone who ever bad mouthed this state and the people who live in it suffer like we suffer. I want to see you realize there isn't a damn thing you can do about it sometimes.
Yeah, this state is pretty much hopeless. The only thing that would change our situation is to get a new influx of conservative voters or to do something really rash. I would take either one. No matter what happens, it can't get much worse than what is happening now. That is why I wouldn't mind seeing all the manufacturers give a time deadline and then cut the entire state off after that. Either people are going to get the legislature to change or this state will suddenly have an exodus of conservatives fleeing for higher ground. Why not have the manufacturers chose the time and place on their terms rather than the government do it at our expense?