Aside from the entrenched "old money" of the East Coast, there is no more stratified backwater of our society than in California. It is there that the caste system is most pronounced, although the only entrance requirement is money. Not coincidentally in a subculture so marked by ill-deserved social stratification, gun control laws are the most onerous. They are in a league with New York's and Massachusetts' -- the East Coast bastions of which I spoke earlier.
IronJack's First Law of Gun Control: Where elitism flourishes, gun control is strictest.