Thursday, April 8, 2010

AB 1810 - Proposed Long gun Registration for California

And the hits just keep rolling in from the Legislature!

Assembly member Mike Feuer has amended AB 1810, formerly covering vandalism, to institute the requirement that all long gun transfers be treated the same as handgun transfers are treated now, effectively creating a long gun registration scheme in California.

Among the effects of this bill:
  • Private parties would have to use an FFL to transfer long guns.
  • New residents moving into the state would have to register their long guns within 60 days.
  • Existing firearms owned by current residents would NOT have to be registered.
This bill is proposed at a time when Canada is debating the issue of ending their long gun registry as being too expensive and ineffectual at fighting violent crime.  I fail to see how long gun registration in California will be any more effective.

Prediction: this bill will probably pass.  As we have seen this year with AB 962, a good way for a legislator to make points with the anti-gun electorate in California is to heap on another gun control law.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Registration - the first step to confiscation. You only need to look at our northern neighbor to see how foolish this idea is.

It's proposals like this that emphasize the need for a part-time legislative body. Send these idiots home to face their constituents.

Actually, as a part-timer, they'd have to get a real job. Maybe that would help them realize how the real world works.

F.L.

Green Vehicle Consultants said...

Even if I were for AB 1810, I'd still tell these reps (who've failed CA) to find something useful to do, ie find ways to not spend money we don't have.

This is sickening, another bill aimed at those who obey the law instead of targeting criminal activity.

Write your letters, make calls, request meetings. I am.

Anonymous said...

Ok, should we have a registration fee on all the other constitutional rights?

New fee: $100 a month or we house soldiers in your home.

$76.56 Freedom of speech charge per blog post or newspaper opinion article.

This from a state who somehow had Oaklandlaying off 80 police officers despite the




This is not 'progressive'. This is a total failure. This is small-time inept politicians f-ing around playing high-school 'model UN' because THEY CANNOT HANDLE THE REAL ISSUES.

Anonymous said...

Ok, should we have a registration fee on all the other constitutional rights?

New fee: $100 a month or we house soldiers in your home.

$76.56 Freedom of speech charge per blog post or newspaper opinion article.

This is from a state who somehow had Oakland laying off 80 police officers despite the city being in the top ten most crime infested crapholes in the nation?




This is not 'progressive'. This is a total failure. This is small-time inept politicians f-ing around playing high-school 'model UN' because THEY