Just a Few Thoughts on Some Proposed Legislation Here in CA

So here are some bills that have been proposed in the past month in the state level, here in CA.

Keep in mind I'm no expert, and encourage criticism.

Senate Bill 47

Again introduced by state Senator Leland Yee, requires the registration of most semi-automatic centerfire rifles with detachable magazines sold between January 2001 to December 2013 and bans tools ("bullet button") used to detach and replace magazines from semi-automatic rifles.

      ----Now this one here, requires registration, something that already is in place in this controlling state. This first part is put to help the second part mentioned pass. Banning the “Bullet Button” means that you would have to either weld your magazine to your rifle, or fix it permanently to the firearm. This would force you to almost completely disassemble the firearm for every reload. The bullet button(currently legal) is a magazine release button that cannot be pressed with your finger, because the button itself has a guard that requires you to use something, like a ballpoint pen, or the tip of a bullet, to press it. Just like the reset buttons on some electronics. They claim that detaching a magazine with a bullet button is “quick”, but it is not. If they ban the “Bullet Button”, you would literally need to disassemble the firearm after 10 rounds. Keep in mind that according to the FBI, the rifles targeted by these laws account for less than 2% of total firearm crimes in the US. They account for even a smaller percentage of deaths.  

Senate Bill 53

     Introduced by state Senator Kevin de Leon, requires ammunition purchasers in California to obtain an ammunition purchase permit first by passing a full and complete background investigation, registration and thumb printing for all ammunition sales and bans the internet/mail order purchase of all ammunition.  

      ---This one sounds reasonable, but this bill is also very extremist. If every ammunition sale were to be registered in a database, then they have the option to enforce other bills that have failed to pass before. Like for example, the bill that limits how many rounds of ammunition you can legally store in your property. In my opinion this is beyond intrusive. But how would they enforce this? Well it just so happens that recently in DC, they have also proposed a federal bill that allows police to search the homes of REGISTERED gun owners, without a warrant. I doubt this one will pass, but it shows intentions more than anything.

Senate Bill 108

     Introduced by Senator Yee, requires a person who is 18 years of age or older, who owns, leases, rents, or is other legal occupant of a residence to store a firearm that he or she owns or has lawful possession of locked in a container or otherwise be disassembled each time the person leaves his or her property.

 ---This one here is reasonable in my opinion.

  There is others that I have yet to find in government websites but want to mention:

*Banning of magazines that have more than 10 rounds, even if they are legal because of grandfathering.  Grandfathered magazines would be deemed illegal.

*Background check and tax(to pay for the process) for every ammunition purchase, as well as a nice fingerprinting.

 *The “gun show loophole” has been said to be one of the biggest causes of this “gun crime wave” by many uniformed liberals. According to FBI statistics, it has steadily been going down since 20+ years ago. They say that the “loophole” allows people to buy firearms without a background check. But in reality that is partially true. In any gun show, there is Federally Licensed Dealers(FFL) that sell firearms and they are required by law to conduct a background check, and fill out all forms. So where is this loophole? It is in private transactions. If a normal citizen with no F.F.L. wants to sell a firearm privately like from father to son, which he can, under current law, with no required check and paperwork (because there is no way to enforce it, unless there is a complete registry) then he cannot without instantly becoming a felon by giving a shotgun to his 19 year old son. I don't know how you people feel about registering, but history shows us registering makes it too easy to unreasonably search homes without a warrant, too easy to confiscate certain types of firearms, too easy to criminalize private transfers. Registering has always led to this, and I have found no exceptions thus far.( video: “History of Gun Control”- can be found on youtube)

 *     There is also the “Universal” Background Check system they plan to impose, but you should note what Obama's own advisory have published documents where they state that banning would prove ineffective without complete registering, which is a major invasion of our right to privacy, which we have seen published recently in New York.. They also say that banning would not work without “mandatory gun buyback” also know as: compensated confiscation. There already is a background check system that is very thorough, down to mental illness history, and standard for the whole country. What makes this new system so "Universal" is the complete Registration that would follow. Senator Chuck Schumer on Jan. 30^th claimed there would be no registry in this bill for “Universal” background checks, and that registration will continue to be deemed illegal by court of law, as it has been before. But in Feb. 12^th , he clearly said he proposed: “some of the proposals, gun trafficking, and the one that I've been pushing, which is, uh, universal registration”

 

 Did I read hear that right? Universal Registration.  I encourage you to look up if this “Universal” background checks have this registration requirement to be effective. Here in CA, there is already a registration requirement, and since that is in place, they are not satisfied, and are pushing for all of this other garbage legislation that only erodes our rights.   

               

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