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Posted on 08/20/2014 9:19:01 AM PDT by EveningStar
Perhaps the most important thing to know is this: It’s perfectly legal for a police charity to raffle off a semiautomatic rifle and a semiautomatic pistol.
Whether it’s entirely appropriate, however, may be another story.
Several deputy sheriffs’ associations – including those in Orange County and San Diego – sold tickets for the rifle raffle on behalf of another organization (one ticket for $5, five tickets for $20). The grand prize: An AR-15 rifle which, in some incarnations in years past, fell under the federal assault weapons ban, and was on the failed 2013 Assault Weapons Ban’s no-no list.
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The fact that this is happening in California of all places is great. Its more evidence that the Right is winning the war on guns and 2nd Amendment issues.
Here in Maine, a local Fire Department was holding a raffle in May.
It was called, “A Gun a Day in May.” A local hunting / fishing / gun store donated the firearms. Every day, for at least 30 days, there was a winning raffle ticket.
I was a recent winner of a rifle raffle that featured a Colt AR-15 Cruiser model in desert tan. The raffle was sponsored by a local Chamber of Commerce and I just bought the ticket on a whim in March but the drawing was in July. It was a certainly a surprise to get the phone call.
Do they run a background check on ya before you can buy a ticket *-?
Teri Sforza
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Stopped reading right there.
First of all, no police department is licensed to purchase or sell any firearm. They are a "Police Department", not a regulated Firearms Retailer.
Second, if they are claiming to be able to legally perform a transaction concerning any type of firearm, where is their FFL?
Thirdly, how can this be a legal transaction when you will not be allowed to pick up the firearm(s) in question (assuming you win) unless you possess the mandatory (CA) forms, registrations, and permits before you can legally possess it/them?
Oh, and have passed the mandatory "Safety Classes" and passed a background check, of course. Can't have just some ordinary citizen possessing a dangerous weapon now.
“First of all, no police department is licensed to purchase or sell any firearm. They are a “Police Department”, not a regulated Firearms Retailer.”
The raffle isn’t being conducted by any police agency!!
And I imagine that the winners will have to pick up their “prizes” at a local FFL where all the necessary paperwork will be executed. All the raffle people are doing is “paying” for someone else’s gun.
Their writers and editors are not well informed about firearms. One referred to ex-cop killer Christopher Dorner’s long gun as a sniper's rifle, when it was a bolt action hunting rifle that he likely bought at Turner's Outdoorsman.
“I was a recent winner of a rifle raffle that featured a Colt AR-15 Cruiser model in desert tan.”
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Wow, that’s great! I have to say, I’m jealous!
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