[goldstategop]

The reason the gunbanners passed this repeal and that Governor Davis signed it into law as a nod to his party's liberal base is to make handguns so prohibitively expensive in California through an avalanche of lawsuits that gun manufacturers will just stop selling guns here. Its de facto prohibition they're after.

[Cicero]

Plus I assume that the trial lawyers kicked into Davis's campaign fund. A lot of them were hoping that guns would be the next tobacco, off of which they made billions of dollars in legal fees. But in spite of this move by Davis I think that tide has turned. It seems to me as a legal amateur that the constitutionality of this new law is doubtful, because it amounts to a wrongful and discriminatory taking away of property from the gun manufacturers.

[SteveH]

See also here for more information.

[petuniasevan]

Well, de facto prohibition is one thing, but we all know how well another Prohibition worked. There will be a thriving "import business" in firearms of all kinds coming through the Mexican border, and perhaps also the Arizona, Nevada and Oregon borders. Of course the gunrunners will be desperados of sorts.

Soon a Mafia-type organization would spring up to run the "business". Then you WOULD have lawless gangs everywhere armed to the teeth, while the law-abiding sheeple cowered in their homes. The leftists would be begged to "protect" the sheeple from guns. They would respond by making it a felony to use a gun to defend yourself or your family from an attacker for any reason. Then all the defender's property would be forfeit to the state coffers, to be redistributed to those mafia-type buddies of the leftists.

Yep! The pinkos have a plan to subjugate the poorly educated sheeple. What's sad is that most of them never can be made to see what's coming.

[Sloth]

...to make handguns so prohibitively expensive in California through an avalanche of lawsuits that gun manufacturers will just stop selling guns here.

I hope they do. I hope auto makers and all product manufacturers simply write California off and concentrate on states that are less unfriendly to free-market capitalism.

[TC Rider]

The reason the gunbanners passed this repeal and that Governor Davis signed it into law as a nod to his party's liberal base is to make handguns so prohibitively expensive in California through an avalanche of lawsuits that gun manufacturers will just stop selling guns here. Its de facto prohibition they're after.

Some times I think the best way to respond to these things is to give them exactly what they want.

Manufacturers should announce today they will no longer sell guns in California, period. Don't ship a single firearm to California, not to stores, not to gun dealers, not to police.

Let all of the gun dealers go to Sacremento to ask Davis what he's going to do for them. Let the police do without. Let Davis's bodyguards do without.

Have the manufacturers announce recalls of all the weapons they have already sold to escape liability.

Let the ammo manufacturers do the same thing, they know they're next anyway. Quit selling ammo there and recall what's sold.

Current owners will face a few hardships getting ammo from Nv or AZ. Police will go nuts.

Dealers of course have the most at risk. If they stand firm and camp on Davis's doorstep, I'm betting they can get this repealed.

I have always said that if big tobacco had done this in Florida, Massachusets and Minnesota, there would never had been a tobacco settlement.