California is working at it by making it very difficult to own guns. Many rifles that are legal in the rest of the US can't be owned here. If it's not a bolt action, it has to meet some very narrow requirements to be legally possessed. Handguns are following suit. By 2006, there will be no handguns that will be legal for purchase if they don't have BOTH a magazine disconnect and a loaded chamber indicator. Used handguns that are not on the "Not Unsafe" list cannot be legally purchased unless you can find a state resident who has one and is willing to sell it you, and you must go through an FFL for the purchase. Used firearms that are not on the list (certain desirable ones, anyway, like older Smith and Wesson Revolvers) are getting hard to find and expensive when you do stumble across one (private party, of course). The latest proposal in the state legislature is collecting information on ammo purchasers - thumbprint, date of birth, name and address, and "other specified information" as stated in the bill. The legislature is full of gun grabbers, and we have no assurances that Schwarzenegger will veto any of these onerous bills if they make it to his desk. I spend a lot of my time emailing, faxxing and calling these bozos in the state legislature. Sometimes we stop a measure, sometimes we don't. It's getting very depressing. I often wonder what some of the now-dead WWII veterans would think if they could see what's happened to our country.