Just as an FYI...
Here in Korny Kaliforny, we gots us the Dreaded Precondition: Registration.
On record with the Cal-DOJ, along with my name and current address as per my gotta-have-it-to-pass-the-backround-check, listed-with-the-state-D.M.V., CURRENT VALID I.D. card, are:
ALL of my handguns, except for one antique.
A BIG LIST of assault rifles, none of which I actually own (I like 'em fine, as a concept. I just can't stand pistol grips. Funny ergonomics, to me.)
If (That's a big if.
) door to door confiscation of guns is going to happen on any large scale, I imagine it'll start here in the Socialista-run Liberal La-La Land known sarcastically as the PRK.
The sunset of the AWB means nothing here, thanks to our "progressive" legislature and Mr. Gray "No-New-Gun-Control" Davis.
It's actually illegal to
transfer (I.e. give, sell, or loan/lend
even at the range!) standard-capacity magazines holding over ten rounds here, too. Doing their derndest to manufacture as many criminals as they can, yup. (How can they hope to enforce such a law? I don't get it.
) All it reall does is prevent the sale of old mags through regular commercial sources, thus creating a black market. A'course, we GOT one of those already as a result of the AWB, but that's going away, so mags'll only cost more HERE.
Nobody I know or have talked too pays the slightest attention to the mag-transfer thing.They're just sure to look over their shoulder before handing 'em over. Law-abiding peaceful folks, made into casual criminals in the face of an unjust, unenforceable law that everyone thinks is ridiculous. This is an accomplishment? And manufacturing casual criminals wholesale does WHAT to reduce crime? Or improve anything? But I digress...
The Cal-DOJ reported at one point that they were somewhat disappointed at the estimated compliance rate for the assault-weapon registration deal. I believe they said that by their reckoning only about 10% of assault-weapon owners actually bothered to fill out and send in the paperwork. DOJ returned an acknowledgment,
A copy of which must be producable on demand upon inspection of any given assault weapon by LE. Presumably the consequence of
not producing said document on demand could result in a charge of possession of an unregistered assault weapon.
DOJ was really slow about sending out their returns. Something like 3+ months after the "That's all, folks!" deadline. Taking your gun to the range during that limbo-time was an iffy prospect. However, I know of zero cases of "unregistered assualt weapon" busts. None. Really effective, that law. Effective at WHAT, I don't know.
Correction: Effective at compiling a list of gun-owners and weapons to be confiscated under color of authority once a ban has been voted into place. But, wait a second, there was only a 10% compliance rate, so they'll never get 'em all...
--That's ok. They have a bigger list for the handguns that probably includes 99% of all the gun-owners in the state, so they know where to look. They're gonna pick 'em all up at once when they try to, anyways. Why bother with half-measures?...
Because the key-word here is "try". I have no faith in the success of that undertaking. Gubmint tries that, and the rural-er parts of the state'll build a wall 'round the Bay Area, L.A., and Sacra-tomato to keep the Liberaloons under wraps. Guess where the food and fuel to feed and operate those large metropolitan areas comes from? And how will those hungy, cold, immobile folks vote when they discover they can't leave, as they're surrounded by hostile rural areas all pointing guns at them when they try?
That's presuming the legiscritters don't immediately start getting "voted out" from on high. That could only improve things in this stupid state...
