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California seizes 1200 illegally owned guns
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | June 17, 2011 | Don Thompson

Posted on 06/17/2011 11:57:33 AM PDT by driftdiver

California law enforcement agents have seized 1,200 firearms from people who cannot legally own them because of mental illness or restraining orders.

However, Attorney General Kamala Harris said Thursday that more than 34,000 handguns and nearly 1,600 assault weapons are still believed to be held statewide by people who should not have them.

Most people bought the weapons legally but were later prohibited from owning guns.

But 12 people were arrested on suspicion of illegally owning assault weapons or grenades during a six-week sweep by the state Department of Justice in April and May.

Harris said 90 percent of the people who had guns seized were barred from owning weapons because of mental illness and 10 percent because of restraining orders or convictions usually related to domestic violence.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: banglist; california; homosexualagenda; india; jerrybrown; kamalaharris; libertarians; medicalmarijuana; neelkashkari; prop8; rongold; timdonnelly
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To: itsahoot
Prescription records, everyone has them.

I never knew that my pharmacist knew what type and how many guns I owned.

81 posted on 06/18/2011 4:06:48 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Gaffer

I’m sure the same has been counciled throughout history as peaceful regi
Santons way to tyranny. Better to stay in the frog pot just a little longer rather than risk ending up in the fire...

Don’t forget to jump out before it’s too late...


82 posted on 06/18/2011 7:48:37 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (explosive bolts, ten thousand volts at a million miles an hour)
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To: Yo-Yo

Computers can cross check databases, who knew.


83 posted on 06/18/2011 7:50:20 AM PDT by itsahoot (I Stand with Sarah Palin)
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To: Dead Corpse

Regi Santons? “damn you auto-complete!!!”

Regimes give way to ...


84 posted on 06/18/2011 7:50:37 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (explosive bolts, ten thousand volts at a million miles an hour)
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To: DeepInTheHeartOfTexas

Curiously, (actually not so curiously at all) the presence and possession of a Med Marijuana Card is presumptive evidence of current marijuana use. It is a disqualifier.


86 posted on 06/18/2011 10:09:13 AM PDT by Lazamataz (First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them. -- Lazamataz, 2005)
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To: itsahoot
Computers can cross check databases, who knew.

It's the fact that a gun ownership database exists that I am concerned about.

87 posted on 06/18/2011 8:37:08 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Dead Corpse

I hear they have already had to ‘re-make’ the re-make’ to appease our Chinese creditors.............er, business partners...............replaced the ‘bad guy’ uniforms with NK uniforms..........


88 posted on 06/20/2011 5:55:47 AM PDT by Red Badger (Nothing is a 'right' if someone has to give it to you................)
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