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Recently the CRPA, along with a consortium of other plaintiffs including the California Side by Side Society, the California Association of Firearms Retailers, the Fifty Caliber Shooters Association, Double gun Journal, Sports Afield, Barrett Firearms Manufacturing, Inc., and several individual county residents, sued the County of Contra Costa and the Board of Supervisors over a newly enacted "large caliber firearm" ban designed to outlaw .50 caliber firearms. The suit, filed in federal court in San Francisco, alleges that the ordinance is unconstitutional and in violation of the First Amendment because it bans anyone (even out of county or out of...

CAL-ERT 04/23/02 1:45 P. M. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Today's Legislative Activity - AB2222 http://www.nramemberscouncils.com/calerts/calert042302.shtml AB2222 (Koretz) was voted on Today, April 23, 2002, in the Assembly Public Safety Committee.  AB2222 FAILED TO GET ENOUGH VOTES TO PASS!  To all of you that repeatedly contacted the legislature in opposition to AB2222, THANK  YOU ! ! !  Your efforts were successful.  AB2222 would have banned and/or heavily restricted the ownership, possesion and use of .50 caliber rifles.  AB2222 failed due to the votes of members of the Assembly Public Safety Committee from both parties.  Voting "NO" were Assembly Members Washington (Chairman), Dickerson, Keeley, and...