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This is why I will never register my guns.
http://www.gopusa.com/news/2013/03/25/ca-legislator-gives-up-on-new-gun-seizure-law/
This is why I will never register my guns.
http://www.gopusa.com/news/2013/03/25/ca-legislator-gives-up-on-new-gun-seizure-law/
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CA legislator gives up on new gun seizure law
By Oakland Tribune March 25, 2013 12:19 pm
One of the most controversial gun-control bills introduced in California this year -- a move to seize the 166,000 registered assault weapons grandfathered in under the state's ban -- is dead, its author said Thursday.
"It would be extremely expensive, for one -- if you were going to take back guns that were grandfathered in, you would have to provide market compensation for them," he said. "I didn't think that made the most sense from a fiscal perspective."
Australia in 1996 and 1997 bought back about 640,000 newly banned semi-automatic rifles, semi-automatic shotguns and pump-action shotguns at an estimated cost of at least $320 million. There was no registry to work from, however, and by some estimates as many as 40 percent of gun owners didn't comply with that mandatory buyback.
Bonta also said he was keenly aware of the gun lobby's assertion that any state or national registration of firearms is merely a prelude to confiscation -- something his bill actually pursued.
"I didn't want to have a bill that plays into that argument," he said. "I wanted to concentrate on some other bills that I thought would be more focused and more effective."
Bonta's other gun-control bills include AB187, a 10 percent tax on ammunition sales to fund crime-prevention efforts in violence-wracked California cities; AB180, giving Oakland special dispensation to enact gun regulations more strict than the state's; and AB1020, requiring the state to notify gun buyers during their 10-day waiting periods that "straw purchases" on behalf of those banned from owning guns are illegal.
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