Assembly member Lori Saldana amended the text of AB 1934 with the intent of outlawing the open carry of unloaded handguns on public places. It does this by changing the trext of PC 12025 (f), which reads:
So, the way this works is that handguns carried in belt holsters are classified as concealed weapons, requiring a nearly impossible to obtain CCW permit from the state. Since most of the UOC events that have caused so much anxiety among non-gun owners have taken place in incorporated areas of cities, this proposed change effectively ends that practice.
(f) Firearms carried openly in belt holsters are not concealed within the meaning of this section.
In addition, a new section, 12037, is added defining the punishments one is liable to for committing the newly defined crime of carrying an unloaded handgun, as well as a long list of exceptions that allow many ordinary handgun activities, such as range sessions and handling guns in gun shops.
Note that this bill should not effect the carrying of concealed or loaded guns while engaged in hunting or fishing because that activity is an exception to the concealed weapon laws.
This bill is currently in the Assembly Committee on Public Safety, with no hearing date set.
Prediction: This bill will very likely pass, further narrowing the ability of law abiding citizens to exercise their 2nd Amendment rights. Thanks a lot Open Carry Movement
3 comments:
Are you blaming the Open Carry movement for the banning of Open Carry???? What kind of drugs are you smoking???
The OC group brought attention to themselves with their self promoting events. It's very obvious that this caused a lot of concern in the community and the legislature needed to react.
Very simple.
It doesn't matter, we don't need to be carrying our guns around anyway. We can still own guns, we can still use them for home protection, we just can't carry them around without proper credentials.
This is an extremely toxic piece of legislation. "Open to the public" includes your private property -- the apartment complex, condominium, front yard of your house, private land in an area where the discharge of firearms is prohibited. All the exceptions which are necessary to try to survive Constitutional muster -- including exceptions for a firing range and in the gun shops -- show how much of a gun ban this law will really be.
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