Comments on: California Legislators Approve Ban on All Self-Loading Centerfire Rifles with Detachable Magazines — Bill Goes to Governor

By: mike felder

mike felder — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 07:23:19 +0000

IM AMERICAN AND ILL NEVER GIVE UP MY GUN

By: Matt Doherty

Matt Doherty — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 05:51:43 +0000

Gary that bill has been scraped since this law already includes a full ban on bullet buttons.

By: Nigel Lopez

Nigel Lopez — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 04:42:48 +0000

Well, it seems that because of the language in the bill and the fact that these rifles have been used specifically for the purpose of hunting; this bill would be overbreadth and therefore unconstitutional.

By: Archfile

Archfile — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 02:57:22 +0000

As and Australian, I can tell you exactly where this leads. I’d be doing more than saying ‘move’ because these people never sleep in their move to remove your rights.

They, after all will never be happy until ALL guns, of every kind. Target, hunting or self defense are gone. Not one type of gun is acceptable to these people. Do not EVER let them make ground, every time they do, you get closer to a world in which you are defended purely by the state at their whim.

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 01:42:59 +0000

Wow, Christopher Jordan is 100% wrong. No one should be able to vote to take away the rights of someone else. What a horrible position to take.

By: Mike Evans

Mike Evans — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 23:53:05 +0000

Kick these clowns out of the union … simply not American. I don’t need ANYONE or ANYTHING from “mainstream” Commi-fornia.

By: Gary Eliseo

Gary Eliseo — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 20:29:34 +0000

Christopher, the problem is these reps DO represent their constituents, the majority of voters in CA dont care about the 2A

Bryton, there’s another bill in the pipe specific to AR type rifles that will outlaw the bullet button requiring owners to weld up the mag catch making the mag permanently fixed, and still requiring them to register it.

By: Matthew Joseph Groom

Matthew Joseph Groom — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 20:24:59 +0000

An en bloc clip is NOT a magazine, and the law does not include the word “Clips”. Therefore, the M1 Garand would not be effected by the language of the current law, nor would the SKS-45, which is already banned in the state by fiat. I mean, seriously, if you live in CA and you want to own guns, then you should have started lynching state senators years ago. Since you haven’t they’re gonna keep raping you.

Editor: Your argument make be logical, but Californians can’t count on this interpretation. The California DOJ has already lumped together SKS=type rifles with semi-autos that have detachable magazines. I have little doubt that the DOJ will deem the en bloc of the Garand to be a “removable magazine” for the purpose of this law. The odd “double-negative” in the law (“A semiautomatic centerfire rifle that does not have a fixed magazine with the capacity to accept no more than 10 rounds”) makes the law incredibly broad.

By: Bryton

Bryton — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 19:57:53 +0000

So if I went out and bought an ar-15 just after the bill was passed in… say a month, would it be legal to have a detachable 10 round mag? In other words, does it take affect as soon as he signs it or not until jan 1, 2014?

By: Christopher Jordan

Christopher Jordan — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 19:57:06 +0000

Jim is right on the money. Don’t contribute a cent to these States. Let them sink. A law like this one should be on a ballot,not decided by representatives that don’t “represent” their constituents.