Damn straight, Jay Baker! Thanks for seeing the forest for the trees.
While peaceful California gun owners are busy trying to interpret the friggin' BS contained in this wonderful piece of legislation, I've no doubt that even more restrictive, draconian laws are fermenting in the narrow, freedom-hating minds of your state politicians. They're probably saying to themselves, "If they'll take this indignity, then we can probably soon foist the next one on them without too much trouble also."
I live in Colorado. I've never been to California, and I doubt I'll ever go there, except to possibly make a plane change. But I really feel for you all out there. You're getting reamed and there doesn't seem to be much you can do about it, at least in the short term.
If it makes you feel any better, Colorado is facing a ballot question that will tighten the ratchet on its rightful (notice that I didn't say "lawful") gun owners. We, too, are rolling down that slope to hell, albeit a bit more slowly than Calif., but we'll get there in the end.
Make no mistake about it: Total confiscation is, and always has been, the ultimate goal of gun-control advocates. They, better than anyone, understand the usefulness of incrementalism over several decades.
DAL
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