Reporting here from gun control central. Unfortunately, California is a good cautionary tale of what can and will happen in many of your states, especially under a Hillary Presidency with a liberal majority SCOTUS. I am looking at you Colorado, Washington, Oregon and Nevada, the Cancer from California anti-gunners is spreading to your states, please stamp it out before it goes malignant.
OTOH, as a California resident, I own ARs, AKs, AR pistol, AOW and I could own a C&R SBS and SBR, if I could ever find an NFA papered example that was affordable. I have my CCW. "No gun" signs do not carry the force of law here. I can legally carry anywhere in the state besides federal buildings and schools. So things aren't as hopeless as many outside the state think they are, at the moment, but we have more than a dozen anti-gun, anti-constitutional ABs and SBs in the pipeline and Governor Moonbeam Jerry Brown will sign some of them. Three of them will make all semi-auto long guns into assault weapons requiring registration and we will never be able to sell them or hand them down to our kids/family member. When we die, those rifles can only be destroyed or sold out of state. We have the insane handgun roster which is slowly and steadily reducing the models of handguns that dealers can sell, it's a defacto handgun ban. The next Governor will be Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom, the ex mayor of San Francisco so that tells you all you need to know. He will sign ANY anti gun bill that crosses his desk in 2018 when he is elected (yes, in this state, we already know which politicians will be next in line, it's very predictable).
Basically, give it five years here and we will be mostly over-regulated out of gun ownership, I give it ten years and the state, other than criminals and LEOs will be almost completely disarmed, perhaps they will let us have single shot shotguns and .22s. For new gun owners, the hoops they have to jump though are already approaching NYC and New Jersey levels of idiocy, tests, exams, plus the roster, plus the added cost to just do everything and buy a gun and ammo. It took me more than $500.00 to obtain my CCW and an 8 month wait. The wait in my county now is up to 14 months. Newsom is presently floating a voter initiative that will require BG checks and a permit to buy ammo, no more Internet ammo sales and the total illegality of presently grandfathered in magazines with greater than 10 round capacity, I predict that will easily be voted in by the sheeple of California. Basically, the average Californian despises us and is terrified of the average gun owner. To them, we are all white supremacist, redneck racists who love guns and want to kill them. To them, guns have a mind of their own also and can wake up, walk down the street and randomly kill their children. The media and Sacramento brainwashing has been very effective and being the state with the most legal immigrants and illegal aliens, almost all vote Democrat, almost all are anti-gun and pro statist. They are used to being part of a disarmed populace with a tyrannical government in their home country so when they come here, they vote for the same thing. We have some minority groups who are very pro gun generally but they too are overshadowed by their own groups in numbers of anti-gunners. I have a couple of friends who are black and own guns and shoot with me, but generally, most blacks vote anti-gun. I have several Filipino friends who are gun fanatics, but many Filipinos actually vote anti-gun. Same with other Asian groups. It's really the same story over and over here, a few good people who see the value of the 2A but we are outnumbered in the millions who buy the tripe that the state government and politicians put out that guns are inherently evil and gun owners should be shamed into giving up their 2A rights. It's insane, it feels as if we are living in the Twilight Zone where people just want to destroy everything that makes this country great. California is definitely one of the top three anti-American ideal states.
in short, California is a lost cause for gun rights and should serve as an excellent cautionary tale of what can and will happen in ANY of the other 49 states, IF the state government and the people don't ensure that the Constitution is still the law of this land. Don't think it can't happen in your state, it can. There are plenty of freedom loving, anti-statist, pro Consitutional, law abiding citizens in this state. Problem is, there aren't enough of them to counter the mindless sheeple of Los Angeles and San Francisco (and yes, there some great, patriotic gun owners living in those two hell holes but they are really a minority). Don't say, "just vote them out", we don't have even close to the numbers needed to do so, it's a lost cause.