California Assembly Approves Total Gun Registration
On a 43-10 vote, the California Assembly approved AB 1810, a bill by Democratic Assemblyman Mike Feuer (Los Angeles) that would require registration of all rifles and shotguns. Information on long gun sales would be permanently archived in a database that could be accessed by the Dept. of Justice (DOJ), law enforcement agencies, and, presumably, by other government officials. The database would include the buyer’s name, address, place of birth, phone number, gender, occupation, and other information. AB 1810 repeals existing law which expressly prohibits compiling a long gun database. AB 1810 requires the DOJ to create and maintain a Registration Database of ALL new long-gun purchases or private party transfers.
Under current California law, only handguns are included in a statewide database. AB 1810 would require that all transfers (new or used) of rifles and shotguns are recorded in the same way. This bill passed the California Assembly on Thursday and now moves to the State Senate. Because the Senate is dominated by Democrats, AB 1810 will probably be approved on a party-line vote and then sent to Gov. Schwarzenegger’s desk, perhaps as early as this summer. So take note — AB 1810 is not the law YET. But the bill is likely to get to the Governor barring something unexpected in the State Senate.
CLICK HERE for text of California AB 1810.
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Just what does it take for people to finally drag these losers out of office? Does anyone in Cali even know that the US Constituiton looks like? A list of gun owners is a list of people to be rounded up later. Crime control? Yeah, criminals buy their weapons legally – ZERO impact folks.
Man, amazes me that people just don’t learn from history…didn’t they look at how useful and successful registration has been in Canada and the UK? Ours just cost $2 billion and hasn’t done a damn thing except penalize lawful gun owners.
yeah, i’m in Australia. I’m telling you straight up, fight this or loose your arms. This will be the wedge for your politicians to take away handguns.. then semi-autos and soon it will be like the UK and Australia.
Seriously, your state or not. You need to fight this tooth and nail. Start writing those letters and pounding those doors.
Canada inmplemented this debacle more than 10 years ago and it has proven time and time again to be utterly useless, and a catastrophic waste of money. The advocates state it provides police with a tool to know who is armed, yet it is not only fraught with errors, it fails to identify the significant number of people that use stolen guns.
It is indeed unfortunate that people can flap so wildly in the breeze of emotional decisions, not those based on evidence.
Canada recently passed legislation to abolish our…
So, even though it costs potentially millions of dollars to maintain and demonstrably fails to solve a significant number of crimes, CA is still going to try this? Are they insane, or merely stupid?
You will also note that the only people in CA who are not about to have their fundamental civil rights violated are criminals, Illegal Immigrants, and the Political Elites. This is no accident.
California has never met a law it didn’t like.
I would think that a state that cant afford to pay it bills would focus more and rebuilding it own economy rather than waste millions of dollors make criminals out of otherwise honest taxpaying citizens.
This law wil NOT work to controll illegal firearms, but WILL put good people on yet another government list for future harassment.