This sounds mightily like an infringement.Next:
Photographs or drawings of guns or ammunition? Verboten!
Make believe guns using forefinger and thumb? Outlawed!
Making noises that sound like a gun being fired? Hate Crime!
Posted on 10/10/2011 7:03:31 AM PDT by Beckett08
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Jerry Brown’s says he has signed a measure that bans the open carrying of handguns in California.
The law, AB144, makes it a misdemeanor to carry an exposed and unloaded gun in a public place.
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Just to be flip: anyone who walks around brandishing an unloaded gun is just being an idgit anyways, aren’t they?
Seems like lawsuit bait to me.
But I assume it will be okay for illegal immigrants and other criminals to open carry. After all, this is California.
I always thought it was rather silly, but I this maybe the first step in laws restricting guns.
I got an idea, California.
Keep electing democrats der der der.
This sounds mightily like an infringement.Next:
Photographs or drawings of guns or ammunition? Verboten!
Make believe guns using forefinger and thumb? Outlawed!
Making noises that sound like a gun being fired? Hate Crime!
Anyone carrying an unloaded firearm is an idiot, since what would be the point?
How is the bill going that seeks to ban free speech which is uttered loudly enough to be heard by someone else? It doesn’t limit your speech, just makes it so in pubic you can’t be heard.
About two years ago, I had a visit from our local sherrif (we are in Southern California) and he asked if my son and I had been shhoting our pellet guns in front of our house (towards an undeveloped hill.
I said yes and he said that he would cite me if I were to continue. I told him that there was no city ordinance against the discharge of pellet guns, but he said that if someone perceived our pellet guns as real, then I would be cited for discharging a real gun.
He even went on to say that if I made a ‘bang’ noise verbally and it was ‘perceived’ as a real, I could be cited.
The good news is that I sent a letter to his watch commander who responded by saying that he fully supported me enjoying a wonderful sport with my son and I was free to continue our target practice.
There will always be some group to cover your a**
Okay. How about if they carry it LOADED.
Translation: He ordered the police chiefs to tell him what he wanted to hear or else lose their jobs.
I told him [local sheriff] that there was no city ordinance against the discharge of pellet guns, but he said that if someone perceived our pellet guns as real, then I would be cited for discharging a real gun.
He even went on to say that if I made a ‘bang’ noise verbally and it was ‘perceived’ as a real, I could be cited.What an ominous tale!
But it looks as if that is the direction we are headed.
Don't play this song loud enough for your neighbor to hear.
OK, but what if my firearm is loaded, is that acceptable?
OK, but what if my firearm is loaded, is that acceptable?
“The law, AB144, makes it a misdemeanor to carry an exposed and unloaded gun in a public place.”
OK, load it then.
This may have the unintended effect of rendering California’s highly-restrictive and arbitrary CCW system unconstitutional.
What exactly could you do with an empty gun? Throw it at an attacker?
I wonder which part of “shall not be infringed” these traitors fail to understand.
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