[onyx]

WOO-HOO!

[mylife]

CA had tons of gun enthusiasts when I lived there.
Full auto? no problem!

My how the place has changed.

[going hot]

Sacramento county is processing average 35-40 CCW applicants a week, 90% approval.

They went from one person handling the paper to whole office dedicated to processing, appointments made on the net, full steam!

[mylife]

Perhaps Californians can turn things around with gun rights.
Canada did.

[Jonty30]

My theory is that the California’s dysfunction at state level is so obvious that no resident trusts the state government to protect or provide for them.

[umgud]

So where is the corresponding spike in gun crimes? Blood in the streets, etc.

[familyop]

"On Thursday, the National Law Enforcement Partnership to Prevent Gun Violence, a consortium of police leadership groups, called for expanding background checks and banning high-capacity ammunition magazines."

Large part of the anti-Second-Amendment lobby there.

[backwoods-engineer]

The state doesn't record the personal history of those who purchase guns, nor their reasons for buying them, so it's hard to pinpoint a reason for the increase

One of the most ignorant and blatantly statist statements I have ever read on a news site. Notice the subtext: the state SHOULD record the personal history of those who purchase guns; the state SHOULD record their reasons for buying them.

NO, it shouldn't do either.

The ignorant part: they can't understand why, in a down economy, with overall crime decreasing, why gun purchases are increasing. They cannot make a causal connection, in their hoplophobic worldview, between more guns and less crime. They cannot fathom a world in which the government no longer has the money to protect them.

Sick, sick puppies.

[I still care]

“annual purchases have increased despite the lackluster economy and a dramatic drop in crime”

I remember the Times saying something dumb like this also.

The REASON for the drop in crime IS BECAUSE OF gun purchases.

It’s because of, not in spite of.

[Lurker]

“there are theories, however.”.

These fools have no idea what’s coming. None whatsoever.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Picture lightbulbs over their heads. About time, doncha think?

[Vendome]

I will pick up two more myself...

[bIlluminati]

Over the last decade, annual purchases have increased despite the lackluster economy and , resulting in a dramatic drop in crime.

Fixed it.

[Secret Agent Man]

They know it will get ugly when the state’s welfare system crashes and the Takers aren’t getting anything from the Makers anymore.

The dead weight in humanity that needs to be culled out isn’t the elderly, or the unborn. It’s those that are deliberate PARASITES that believe they DESERVE to live off everyone else for nothing. That is what is destroying this country. Among other things.

[Iron Munro]

[null and void]

Over the last decade, annual purchases have increased despite the lackluster economy and have caused a dramatic drop in crime.

There.

Fixed.

[Puckster]

This is a sane reaction to Colorado.....and Barry.

[ronnie raygun]

They see the writing on the wall. Anarchy is in thier future

[arthurus]

annual record for the number purchased legally

And I have heard many people express the desire and determination to acquire an off-the-books weapon.

[arthurus]

despite the lackluster economy and contributing to a dramatic drop in crime.