This is fake news designed so Police can shoot anybody so bold as to record them on their phones
Calif is ‘Progressive’ in this area:
http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2016/08/robert-farago/california-bans-gun-shaped-cell-phone-cases/
August 29, 2016
Last week, California legislature passed AB 1798 last week. On Friday, Governor Brown signed it into law. Under the new law any object that would lead “a reasonable person to perceive that the device is a firearm” is now verboten. Given that the Golden State is home to some extremely “unreasonable” people, one wonders if a Pop Tart chewed into the shape of a gun would qualify. This is how the new law reads:
Firearms: imitation firearms: gun-shaped phone cases.
Existing federal law prohibits a person from manufacturing, entering into commerce, shipping, transporting, or receiving any toy, look-alike, or imitation firearm unless the firearm contains, or has affixed to it, a marking approved by the federal Secretary of Commerce.
Existing state law defines “imitation firearm” as any BB device, toy gun, replica of a firearm, or other device that is so substantially similar in coloration and overall appearance to an existing firearm as to lead a reasonable person to perceive that the device is a firearm.
Under existing law, a manufacturer, importer, or distributor of imitation firearms that, among other things, fails to comply with any applicable federal law or regulation governing the marking of a toy, look-alike, or imitation firearm, as defined by federal law or regulation, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
This bill would specify that the definition of imitation firearm described above includes, but is not limited to, a protective case for a cellular telephone that is so substantially similar in coloration and overall appearance to an existing firearm as to lead a reasonable person to perceive that the device is a firearm.