Posted on 08/31/2018 8:42:21 AM PDT by Simon Green
A series of four anti-gun bills were approved late this week and are heading to Gov. Jerry Brown for signature. The measures — Assembly Bill 2888 and Senate Bills 221, 1100, and 1177 — passed the state legislature and now head to the state’s Democratic governor for further consideration.
AB 2888 would expand who can file for one of California’s Gun Violence Restraining Orders, adding coworkers, employers, and school employees to the list that currently includes family members and police. Such orders, largely pioneered by the state, have been derided as “turn in your neighbor” laws as they allow for temporary gun seizures with the accused only able to appear in court after the fact in many cases. After making it through the Assembly on a 48-25 vote in May, the Senate approved it this week 25-12.
The second measure, SB 221, would prohibit the sale of firearms and ammunition at the state-owned Cow Palace in Daly City. The historic venue has long been the location of numerous gun shows throughout the years, which has drawn the ire of Democrats from nearby San Francisco, a city that regulated its last gun shop out of business in 2015. The bill passed the Assembly in a contentious 44-31 vote before navigating the Senate Thursday, 26-13.
“Our country is awash in guns, and schoolchildren are dying,” said the bill’s sponsor, state Sen. Scott Wiener D-San Francisco. “We need fewer guns, and we need to stop the proliferation of guns whose only purpose is to kill as many people as possible as quickly as possible.”
Also headed to Brown is Sen. Anthony Portantino’s SB 1100 that would bar firearm sales to those under 21 years of age. The move would be similar to laws passed in Florida and Vermont this year, both of which have triggered a legal challenge. A fiscal analysis of the measure estimates California would lose out on $2.2 million per year in mandatory dealer fees due to the decreased number of gun sales resulting from the proposed new laws. Nonetheless, the Assembly approved it 47-30 on Tuesday setting up a 26-12 Senate concurrence on Wednesday.
“I am determined to help California respond appropriately to the tragic events our country has recently faced,” the Los Angeles County Dem said Friday. “I feel it is imperative that California leads when Washington refuses to act.”
Another of Portantino’s proposals, SB 1177, aims to ration all firearm purchases to one every 30 days. The state currently has such a rule for handgun sales, which the proposal would stretch to include shotguns and rifles. Just the District of Columbia, Maryland, and New Jersey have gun rationing laws on the books, but they, like California’s current statute, are directed at handguns only. The measure was given a 47-30 nod in the Assembly earlier this week before a 25-12 vote in the Senate on Thursday.
The move this week grows the stack of gun control expansions on Brown’s desk to eight, following just days after legislators forwarded him a quartet of bills to expand lifetime gun bans and make it harder to get a concealed carry permit. He has until Sept. 30 to sign or veto the bills.
Hmmm. So automatically you’re less likely to go whack-a-doodle when you hit 21 or something? Them cali law makers shur r smart huh?
Why are they rationing guns? Are they in short supply?
I’m sure that will stop the criminals in their tracks!......................as they pour across the border into El Norte!..............
What promises are being made if this is enacted? Liberals are never made to explain themselves before they pass “common sense” gun control laws and after. No accountability.
California REALLY needs to be three separate states.
I’d rather see the voting age bumped back to 21
They sure hope so.
Fraudulently documented foreigners are exempt from laws in CA.
These laws are only for law-abiding US citizens.
I like that map.
AZTLAN.
It’s here......................
I see the porcupine with a balloon.
The inevitable legal challenges might get stuck at the 9th circus but it they will ABSOLUTELY be upheld in SCOTUS.
California continues to think it is not subject to the Constitution, except when it is convenient.
is the ballot measure moving forward?
Conservatives in California have got to defeat the Marxist who are destroying the State of California out of the Governor’s office and Assembly in Sacramento. Jerry Brown and his cabal of Marxist are truly insane, IMO.
Three separate Democratic-majority states? No way. The guy pushing this was scamming people. That whole effort was DOA. No way with the maps drawn that you’d ever get anything but 6 Democratic Senators. Besides, breaking up the state needs local, state, and national approval. Again, DOA.
Wait..
The age limit provision is unconstitutional as it violates the equal protection clause. However, if the state wants to move the age of majority to 21, then I would agree with the restriction.
I’d love to see mushroom clouds go up along the Cali coast.
“California REALLY needs to be three separate states.”
With two senator total for the three. Maybe just making it a territory would be better.
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