Don't get to excited about it, up until Kennedy was shot we could go into a store and buy a gun and walk out with it right them. We could order guns by mail, you simply signed a statement that you were over 21 and whammo! your gun arrived in the mail.
Crime was lower, kids never shot each other in school and citizens could defend themselves at will. Every county in CA let you have a CCW if you passed the background check, you could carry a handgun openly(in a holster of course)and long guns also where ever you wanted(in CA).NYC was the only large city with oppresive gun laws and they had the highest crime rate.
The gun laws they have now haven't stopped, or even slowed down, crime, all they have done is make it harder for citizens to own firearms, and of course that is their real intent and purpose regardless of what anti-gun fanatics say.
Sigh. Could also buy 20 and 37 mm mail order. Solothurns and Lahtis and ammo galore.