Posted on 09/28/2014 3:07:17 PM PDT by Twotone
Did you know a handgun could expire? If not, you are probably not from California.
Effective January 1, 2001, no handgun may be manufactured within California, imported into California for sale, lent, given, kept for sale, or offered/exposed for sale unless that handgun model has passed firing, safety, and drop tests and is certified for sale in California by the Department of Justice. Private party transfers, curio/relic handguns, certain single-action revolvers, and pawn/consignment returns are exempt from this requirement.
This is the California-compliant tactile loaded chamber indicator.
Before a new handgun can be sold in California, it must first be certified. Certification in California requires that all handguns to be submitted for “testing” — a process that often ultimately results in the firearm being dropped and later destroyed. Worse yet, every model, caliber, color etc. has to have multiple units submitted making the process extremely costly to the manufacturer. Then, after the manufacturer has made the decision to bite the proverbial bullet and eats the cost to receive certification, the clock starts ticking. According to the logic of California’s rabidly anti-firearms ownership lawmakers, a model that was tested and approved must to be recertified after a period of time, run through the exact same series of tests to prove it still does what the design did when the testers drop tested them the previous time.
It is, by loud and above-board government design, a very frustrating and expensive process causing multiple major manufacturers to forego the California market altogether while others must very significantly increase the cost of California Compliant models. Retail cost often triples. There is a point to reporting on the certification other than demonstrating, yet again, the dangers of failing to get involved in the political process and supporting the national organizations dedicated to preserving your gun rights.
California recently released its latest list of handguns that are no longer certified. You can also click here for an interactive widget to determine the certification of the 908 models currently approved in California, the list changes on a weekly basis.
Be absolutely aware, ignorance is not a defense, and whether you live in or out of the state, you do not want to incur a guaranteed expensive and stressful criminal incident and legal battle over a very simple and totally innocent sale or purchase.
Be smart and be wary and stay out of poverty and prison.
It’s not called “The Granola State” for nothing. Once you get past the fruits and nuts, there’s nothing left but flakes.
http://oag.ca.gov/sites/oag.ca.gov/files/pdfs/firearms/removed.pdf
Fifty pages of de-certified handguns.
The Kalifornia Raisins were the perfect product for that place.
This is thirteen year old news for those of us who live here. Unfortunately.
It's an outright prohibition!
Darn, can’t sell mine anymore, guess I will have to keep them...
Can we just go ahead and force California to secede from the U.S.?
Holy infringement Batman!
“Can we just go ahead and force California to secede from the U.S.?”
Let’s draw a east/west line across California just north of Sacramento and keep that portion of the state. Let the portion south if that line do what it wishes, return to Mexico if it wants...
Just last week another opportunity to move to the LA area came up. New position in my company, promotion, big step up in many areas. I politely said no thanks. No way in hades.
“A friend passed this on to me. When I first read the article I thought it had to be a conspiracy theory!”
Both sides of the issue understand this, FULLY. Most people in the middle do not.
If the cost of a gun is driven up enough, then you don’t even need “gun control”, as the price will dissuade nearly all purchasers that don’t have an immediate need, thereby ELIMINATING 80-90% of potential owners. Once you do that, then there simply is not enough gun owners to be a credible political force, and the people pushing gun control can then move in for the kill.
So for those that have trouble understanding why us pro-gun people appear VERY DEFENSIVE in opposing “common sense gun control”, that is why.
This law has no legitimacy. A decent person might follow the law out of fear or evade by any lawful means (the firearms equivalent of Clinton’s “truthful but not helpful”), but there is no moral obligation to obey and an absolute moral obligation to vote for jury nullification in any case that goes to trial. We have to stop respecting the law as a positive in the abstract sense. Laws are concrete and have to be judged individually.
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- DID YOU NOTICE THE BIG FUSS OBAMA & HOLDER MADE ABOUT THE BARACK MUSLIM THAT BEHEADED A WOMAN IN OKLAHOMA?
yeah I understand, we live in Kentucky and have discussed what incentive it would take to get us to move to Florida. The answer is nothing would work. California doesn’t even come into the discussion. Four times the amount of money that I make now would not be sufficient to get me to move to California.
Yup.....I am banned from California.....LOL...
Smith & Wesson 65-8 SKU 162604 / Stainless Steel .357 Magnum Revolver 4” 8/17/2014
Which is why I reported that all of my firearms were lost in a tragic boating accident at Chicken Foot Lake in the High Sierras. They are more than welcome to hike 50 miles into the back country and do some scuba diving to confirm the veracity of my story if they have any doubts.
This is one of many reasons why the NRA and the CRPA do not get a dime from me. I have been a life member of both since the 1980s when I bought into their “we need more money and everything will be all right” shtick. BS. Nothing that CA does when it comes to gun possession, carry , or purchase is Constitutional and both organizations just pussyfoot around.
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