Ignorant California Legislator Calls for New Gun-Control Laws
If you have wondered why so many gun control laws are illogical, impractical, and misguided, here’s one simple answer. The politicians who draft these laws may be misinformed, misguided, and well, just plain ignorant. Here’s proof. In the video below, California State Senator Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) advocates anti-gun legislation at a press conference. Sen. de León makes a series of blunders and mistakes. He confuses magazine capacity with the rifle’s bore size, referring to “.30 caliber” when in fact the gun is a .223/5.56mm. He then says it “has the ability with a 30-caliber clip [sic] to disperse with 30 bullets within half a second. Thirty magazine clip [sic] in half a second”. We think he means that the gun fires 30 rounds in 0.5 seconds, but even that is preposterous. Have a good look at the kind of politician that is writing California’s laws these days. Would you trust this guy to park your car, much less protect your Constitutional rights?
To be honest, we don’t know why Sen. de León believes new legislation is needed to ban this “Ghost Gun”? This firearm* is already restricted under existing California law. It also appears to be a short-barreled rifle (SBR), meaning that it is already regulated as a Class III firearm in all fifty states. (In the United States, it is a federal felony to possess an SBR without fling a BATFE Form 4, and paying a $200 tax to the BATFE.) As one web journalist observes: “It’s hard to trust Democrats when they say completely… inept things like this.”
*The term “Ghost Gun” has been used to describe plastic guns that evade metal detectors, and/or arms built from 80% lowers or unregistered receivers. But it is already against the law in California to create or sell a functioning AR15-type rifle that carries no serial number.
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I didn’t make it 3 seconds … ghost gun? 30 cal clip?????
Cali you deserve what you get for voting for MORONS like this.
the look on the officer’s face behind him is priceless.
This Senator is a typical greenie anti gun lobbyist! He probably entered politics under some other guise, but in reality he’s a mole for the anti-gun lobby that did the back door deals and greasing of palms to get him in… This is why he knows nothing about firearms. This guy has only one agenda to spread fear, propaganda and misrepresent the facts when is come to firearms, this has all the whore marks of anti-gun lobby, green and animal rights groups.
Typical uninformed Democrat lacking in even the most basic common sense.
To be more than fair to the “tool”, he’s referring to an 80% lower built into an illegal weapon (maybe automatic) and hard to assign to an owner. California tried to outlaw 80% lowers but was not able to do so as I believe Brown would not sign the legislation it was attached to. I could be wrong. He certainly seems frightened by it. Clearly he’s afraid of ghosts.
These politicians always have police officers of high rank in the background. These officers are now politicians just with an agenda (mostly their own careers) and are not willing to correct the politicians or are just as ignorant, probably both. I have seen professional law enforcement officers that are so immersed in the administrative part of their jobs that become very ignorant of the tactical aspect of police work, or the reality in the streets. Most cops are not good shooters and many view their firearms as evil and never become experts in their use, or comfortable nor knowledgeable enough to carry a weapon. They become part of the problem when they tacitly agree to be pawns (court jesters) of politicians trying to make an impact of some type. I am a retired federal LEO for USCBP and talk from my own observations. The officers do not serve and protect, more like obstruct and harass the law abiding public with agendas bordering in fascism.
Mix a bit of hoplophobia, material determinism, ignorance and cerebrally challenged nostrums and this is the result….. a low information politician.
> But it is already against to law in California to create a functioning AR15-type rifle from a non-serialized receiver.
Actually it is not against the law. It is 100% legal and many builders do it. This is exactly what this moron de Leon wants to ban. The only limitation to such a rifle is that it must be either “featureless” (no pistol grip, no flash hider, etc) or have a “bullet button” which locks a magazine so that a tool (tip of the pullet, a screwdriver or similar tool) is necessary to depress a mag release.
Editor: Not true. As of January 1, 2014, in California, all long guns must be registered. To be registered, there must be a serialized part. Moreover, under federal law also, gun manufacturers must have a distinct code or number on what is normally called the “receiver” or “lower” in the case of an AR. Yes you might start with an un-numbered 80% lower, but it must be serialized during production. So a complete gun without a serial number IS already illegal in California.
Technicalities exist within the Jan 1st, 2014 registration. Firearms owned prior to Jan 1st don’t need to be registered and there’s currently no law requiring dates on 80% lowers. Hard to enforce when an individual makes a firearm and there’s no requirement even in California for individuals to add one.
http://www.nraila.org/legislation/state-legislation/2014/1/california-new-anti-gun-laws-take-effect-today,-january-1.aspx
de Leon is trying to close this “loophole”. The “Ghost Gun” is a fully automatic 80%er.
http://www.komonews.com/news/national/California-bill-seeks-to-regulate-homemade-guns-240005421.html
Editor: If full-auto, it’s already illegal nationwide without tax stamp. If SBR, its’ already illegal nationwide without tax stamp. In California, because of features (detachable mag, pistol grip, adjustable stock), already illegal as “assault rifle”, and has required registration for years now, which, in turn requires a serial number. People need to understand that the rifle Sen. De Leon is holding is already verbotten, under numerous regulations. No you’re not allowed to make a short-barreled machine-gun in your garage.
if you live in this clowns district and you pulled the lever for him, your as much a disgrace as he is, SHAME ON YOU!
Ever consider this misinformation and gobbldygook as deliberate rather than ignorant?
The ‘Greens’ in Australia have continued to campaign to have automatic and semi-automatic arms banned here, despite the fact that automatics were never legal and semiautomatics almost impossible since 1996. The Greens know this, but continue to use this tactic to campaign for ever more restrictive, yet unrelated gun control.
The Inuit have been harvesting Harp seals for eons without detriment, and kangaroo harvesting in Australia is as essential as deer management in the US. Ever noticed that the argument is never taken up with those affected or the well informed? The Green lobby will never be influenced by, or even interested in facts, they get in the way of their story.
10% of the population will support any argument regardless. 10% of the population will oppose it regardless.
The rest are there to be fought for and mostly ignorant. Don’t scoff, this willful ignorance and deception tactic works in the short term. Your ‘ignorant’ representative did after-all get elected. Confront the general community with the truth and get him un-elected! Don’t fall for the temptation to play their game, spreading equally silly positions. That doesn’t work in the long term, leave the masters of BS to be exposed for what they are. Regardless of who likes it or not, the truth always comes out, and often at the most inconvenient time, for the BS artists.
So glad i left California!