By now, anyone who follows gun rights news knows that California isn’t a great place to be a gun person. Your choices on handguns are severely limited to just what’s on a particular list, a list that is shrinking as models are discontinued and no longer sold, and your choices of tactical rifles are even more so. Sure, most hunting weapons are untouched, but the Second Amendment doesn’t say a damn thing about hunting.
However, there’s a kind of firearm that made it through the cracks of California state law. It’s not quite a pistol, not quite a rifle. It’s made life in California just a bit easier for some.
So, of course, California lawmakers are looking to ban it.
California lawmakers this week are poised to use a budget maneuver to ban a new type of gun in a move that drew bipartisan criticism in a legislative committee hearing Wednesday evening.
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration describes the firearm as an assault-style weapon that’s a cross between a rifle and a pistol. It doesn’t neatly fit into either category, however, because it lacks a shoulder stock needed to be a rifle and has a barrel too long to be a pistol.
Representatives for Newsom argued at a Senate Budget Committee hearing that the gun was designed to circumvent California gun control laws and that the policy change would close the loophole.
Jay Jacobson, president of the company that manufactures the firearm, disputed the administration’s characterization of the gun. He said the gun his company Franklin Armory manufactures, called a Title 1, is in a separate category from rifles and pistols and that the company has worked for years to ensure the weapon would be legal to sell in California.
Several lawmakers raised concerns about the move at the Wednesday hearing, arguing the ban should have been considered in a standalone bill, not as part of the sprawling budget deal that encompasses 19 pieces of complicated legislation.
“It should be a policy bill — banning of a new class of firearm,” said Republican Sen. Melissa Melendez from Lake Elsinore. “This isn’t a budget matter.”
So why wasn’t it?
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Shall NOT be infringed! PERIOD...there's no "buts" or "unless's" in there...It's clear!
ReplyDeleteThis movement by Progressives to undo our Constitution has been going on since the 1800s
DeleteWe must rally and stick together to eliminate this poison in our Government.
President Trump has exposed this corruption for us to see
Northwest Woodsman: California as well as the rest of the country, is plagued with Marxist democrats that want to control every aspect of our lives. Taking firearms, our means of defense against tyrannical democrat policies, is a constant goal of these political hacks because to some degree they fear us and they know that if they were to push their agenda too far and too fast, an armed rebellion could begin. I’m sure that they were aghast at those patriots who, with firearms and in multiple cities and towns, stood up to Antifa and BLM and chased them away. I have found that Marxist democrats are not strong, bold people and in a one on one confrontation, they are uncomfortable and unable to support their narratives with facts. They prefer mob rule and the philosophy of “never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups”.
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