Proposal of AR confiscation in California

[RugersGR8]

http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_22544460/californias-state-senate-democrats-roll-out-big-gun
California's state Senate Democrats roll out big gun control package
By Josh Richman
Posted: 02/07/2013 05:14:54 PM PST
Updated: 02/08/2013 10:47:40 AM PST

.."It joins equally controversial proposals from Assembly Democrats that would regulate and tax ammunition sales and consider taking the state’s 166,000 registered assault weapons from their owners."..

 

[thegomezclan]

Wow, just wow.

 

[spcbrindley]

Holy hell. I can't believe that there are people tring to defend this crap. It's been said before, this will only unarm and make criminals of otherwise law abiding citizens. Do they think all the sumbags and gangbangers are going to line up and hand over their wepons?

 

[chuter]

I guess they prefer pushing all this underground, so we can have illegal firearms trade on the level of the illegal drug trade.....................afterall, the war on drugs is working so well, we should just have a war on guns.

 

[Cinaet]

That's insane.

 

[JCW355]

Bet that will solve a lot of problems, bunch of idiots.

 

[dutchwrangler]

"We respect the Second Amendment right of law-abiding citizens to have guns for hunting, for sport, for protecting their homes and families. But loopholes in California's tough gun laws have been exploited long enough," state Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, said Thursday.

"We can save lives by curbing the proliferation of guns designed to be fired and reloaded rapidly," he said. "We can save lives by getting guns and ammunition out of the hands of the wrong people. We can save lives if every gun owner knows how to safely handle those guns. And if we can save lives, we must act to do so."

Everything said in the quote above before the word But is negated by that three letter word. Each and every time someone says "but", they could've saved oxygen by not uttering what precedes it and just go with the latter part... which is what they're really thinking.

Thus Steinberg is really saying...

"We don't respect the Second Amendment. Loopholes in California's tough gun laws are not tough enough and have been exploited too long . We the government are going to disarm the people. And by this action the people will serve us, instead of us theoretically serving the people."

Naturally many lives will be lost as government employees descend in groups to disarm those who value freedom. Don't know about many on this forum, but I don't fear petty criminals. At best they are a nuisance. We lowly people can handle criminals for the most part without the help of government troops. Government en masse seeking to control our lives... different story that requires we be armed with superior arms to beat them into submission so they remember who the masters truly are.

Pro-2A arms owners and golf pros in California really ought to abandon that sinking ship while they can.

 

[scottb42]

They tried something similar to this last year... the idea was to retroactively ban all "Bullet-Buttoned" ARs, no grandfather clause, no registration, just turn 'em in. Almost passed too, until the Appropriations Committee looked at it and couldn't find a way around the fact that the state would have to compensate the owners of all such rifles. Estimates vary for the number of BB-ed ARs in California, low end is 100,000 and upper end is 1,000,000. Even if they low-balled the value of each seized rifle it would still have cost the state a big hunk of cheese, which they didn't have.

Maybe they think that since the state budget has "recovered" (call me skeptical) they can take a fresh look at this.

 

[uncle money bags]

I hope they are able to pass this law. Nothing would serve the interests of pro second amendment folks better than to have a government skip over their effective use of incremental usurpations and go straight for the throat.

 

[RollingRock]

Cali has a ton of street, cycle & narco gangs...this will not end well. If they think this rouge LAPD cop is bad news, just try to confiscate from the general populace...