Posted on 12/27/2013 6:17:36 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
A new gun law coming in 2014 has gun owners stocking up on long guns before a new registry begins.
Even though the law is at least temporarily boosting his bottom line, Just Guns owner John Deaser isn’t a fan. He says requiring people to register their rifles and shotguns is an unnecessary invasion of privacy.
In the last week of 2013, he says sales of long guns are up 30 to 50 percent.
The registry goes into effect on Jan. 1, and would require long gun owners to register their weapons like handgun owners already do. It would track the make, model and serial number of the gun, as well as the person who owns it.
Previously dealers would destroy personal information on long gun owners after a background check had been completed. Now they’ll register those purchases with the state.
Supporters of the new law say it will improve public safety and help keep guns out of the wrong hands.
Deaser says many of his customers are stocking up on long guns now rather than waiting until 2014 when they would have to register.
“These are law-abiding citizens,” he said. “They’re not trying to beat the system or anything like that. They just don’t want to be tracked.”
Avid hunter Jason Gudgel bought a shotgun for his son on Thursday, but he says it has nothing to do with the new law. He says the timing is because of the holidays.
“I teach my son hunter safety,” he said. “We do it as a sport. We hunt pheasant and deer, and that’s what they’re supposed to be meant for.”
Shame what happened to CA. I can’t talk too much crap about the state, as it is FR’s home state. But used to be a time when the state kicked total ass. Now it’s just a semi-3rd world nation.
CA also has a 10 day waiting period, so I wonder if a purchase now would be considered pre-2014 or would it be the 2014 delivery date that triggers registration.
I’ve bought 5 rifles in Nov/Dec.
I’m a 3rd generation Californian, and I left 20 years ago. Nice weather only gets you so far.
I feel like a foreigner when I go back to visit.
I can’t comprehend the sheep that will register their weapons next year in CA, or the sheep registering in CT right now. Where is the resistance? I don’t mean armed resistance, simple non-compliance with unconstitutional laws.
California, once a proud leader of states, has relegated itself to an over-regulated, socialist mess.
“I feel like a foreigner when I go back to visit.”
I escaped in 1976 and feel the exact same way.
Well, since the "system" has gone rogue and declared war on the law-abiding, how is this not "beating the system", and how is that anything but good? Remember, Kalifornistan is the "state" that expects people who don't live in their state and over whom they have no authority, to help them oppress their employers. (Ammo purchase registry at sources just outside the "State of Tyranny")
Well, considering that it's essentially Mexico now, you kinda are a foreigner.
(I'm 2nd generation, and left in 1992)
Sounds unconstitutional to me.
“Undocumented aliens” [illegal aliens to the rest of us] do not have to register their guns in California because they were carried in from Mexico and also bought in California from other illegal undocumented aliens.
Only law abiding citizens will have to register their guns. Illegal aliens are exempt from this law coz they are not citizens. Besides Mexicans need their guns on New Year`s Eve to shoot all over the place up in the air all night long in Los Angeles.
I saw a lot more resistance up in Canada, for pity’s sake.
What’s worse is I still live here and I feel like a foreigner.
and of course the crime rate is lower here.
Actually you’re not supposed to do that.
Just saying.
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