I believe California requires registration.
All firearms, save antique or curio long guns, must be transferred thru an FFL. Handguns and assault weapons must be registered and starting Jan 2014, long guns too will require registration.
Of shotguns??
It didn't used to, but all purchases by law had to go through licensed dealers. No gun show loophole in that State. Private transfers prohibited. Guns through the mail or shipped, if not to a licensed gun dealer prohibited, intrastate, and both into and out of State, if memory serves well enough.
Since when has the government been able to legally retain gun-buying application info? The USED to have to dispose of it, back when we had enough Senators with spine that demanded it, even as FFL's by law had to retain records.
We need a new President, and a new Senate, with both unafraid to kick the asses of enemies to the Constitution, but with more focus on the domestic enemies. Throw those [expletives deleted] UNDER the jail. Make it painful.
“I believe California requires registration. “
Semantics.
Background check results in a de facto registration; paperwork that was supposed to last 90 days, but now lasts “for the life of the gun”.
Long guns are only “long guns”; handguns are identified by serial number, make, caliber, barrel length, color, and more.
This story is full of bogus.
No, you just have to do the usual 4473/background check and wait 10 days but that includes individual sales.