Wyatt Buchanan
Updated 10:39 pm, Thursday, February 7, 2013
Sacramento –California would significantly restrict gun use and ownership, including major new bans on ammunition magazines, under dozens of new proposed regulations that would cement the state’s status of having the strictest gun-control laws in the United States.
The magnitude of restrictions introduced by Democrats is greater than gun-rights advocates say they have ever seen at one time and puts the debate in California in the forefront, even as Congress considers a number of gun laws. The drive for tougher regulations in California also highlights the relative weakness of the gun lobby and gun manufacturers in the state.
Restrictions would include a ban on possession of all high-capacity magazines. Such magazines that hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition and that were purchased before the state banned them in 2000 are currently legal.
Also, lawmakers proposed a ban on the sale of any long gun with a detachable magazine, classifying such guns as assault weapons.
‘Exploiting the fine print’
State lawmakers announced those proposals at a news conference Thursday, along with plans to impose stricter certification requirements for handgun ownership and a requirement that all guns in the state be registered, not just handguns as is required now. Other recent proposals include a tax on ammunition and requiring that gun owners acquire liability insurance.
The gun industry “is very adept at exploiting the fine print and finding ways to get around the letter of the law,” said state Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento. “The time is now to close those loopholes in the circulation, in regulation and in the education relating to guns and to gun ownership.”
He said he acknowledged the argument that new restrictions won’t stop gun violence in neighborhoods, but he said they would save some lives.
“If we can save lives, we must act to do so,” Steinberg said.
Lawmakers were joined by San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, both Democrats, and public safety officials from around the state.
Audible evidence
Richmond Police Chief Chris Magnus played a recording of dozens and dozens of gunshots fired in rapid succession over just a few seconds at 11 p.m. at Stege Avenue and Cutting Boulevard that were picked up by the city’s gunfire recording system soon after it was put in place.
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Looks like a lot of citizens will now become criminals.
Still wondering why those fine politicians haven’t taken such a hard stand on DUI?
Time to do background checks on those who purchase a bottle of booze to see if they have prior DUI’s? If you do, SORRY!
INSTANT background checks at your local bar where you have to swipe your drivers license before you buy a drink to make sure you have no convictions for DUI?
NO drivers license in possession, you cannot buy the bottle or be served, AGE is not an issue.
YES let’s add that to the mix if you want to save lifes.
Here’s a novel thought, bartenders will be armed with an Alcohol Screening device that you must blow into every 30 minutes after entering the business.
Upon reaching a Blood Alcohol level of .05% you are cut off.
One might consider having to blow into such a device upon entering the business.
Any politician or elected official convicted of DUI must resign from office. Those convicted must complete a 100 hour community service program at the county coroners office.
In many city’s the death rate from DUI drivers FAR exceeds any homicide or accidental gun deaths.
Many cities with NO HOMICIDES and more than a couple dozen DUI related deaths.
SPARE me your BS Sacramento liberal fools.
I SAW THIS IN A BUMPER STICKER…
“I’ll keep my guns, freedom, and money…YOU CAN KEEP YOUR “CHANGE”
#2 McMahon wants your guns. Don’t be fooled he is like Hoops. Some people drank the Kool-aid. He issued 300 CCW’s and took away 159. Thanks Rod. They say McMahon wants to stop all together.
Anonymous 3 you are right. Rod Hoops took back a couple hundred CCW’s. He might have issued 400 while sheriff. So that’s about 200 issued because he removed the other CCW’s. SBSD provided information that there is about 2600 CCW’s in the county. That is what Hoop’s did to the CCW system in the county.
McMahon is following Rod and will take the role of stopping the issue of CCW’s except to political contributors, friends and people he feels are VIP’s.
So the new laws will only give McMahon more reasons to mess with the Second Amendment and peoples guns.