Where were California gunowners in California?
It amuses me how so many people expect the out of town organization to come in and do it all for them while they sit back and watch NASCAR.
While your rights were going down the toilet, how many people were you organizing for letter writing campaigns, grass roots action, etc?
Or were you waiting for NRA to do it for you?
"Will anything be done to reverse the anti-freedom trend?"
What are YOU going to do about it?
You'd be surprised, Mike.
There are the California Rifle & Pistol Association (CRPA), the Citizens Committee Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA), Citizens of America (COA) and numerous, very active pro-gun or gun related mailing-lists such as Jeff Chan's
ca-firearms@yahoogroups.com.
All of these have been heavily active in lobbying for or against certain measures, like the current AB 352 which will require firearms to have some kind of super-duper micro-engraving it and stamp on each cartridge case that's fired (it ignores the use of reloaded ammo).
You might ask where are the California gun owners. Well, we are asking
where are all of our RKBA bretheren? You see, it seems the rest of the country has given up on Kalifornia because it's a foregone conclusion that anti-gun laws will pass. What money we get from out of state is paltry compared to what other states see, at least according to some of the organizations trying to keep up the fight.
Of course the critters occupying the legislature are predominantly tax & spend Democrats (as opposed to the spend-spend Republicans) and these folks have decided long ago that what the 'common' folks think is not important because they'll always rig it so a democrat (or RINO) is in office.
Watch the NRA's updates and you'll see California show up infrequently, even when something is brewing. And, of late, some of their "help" seems bent not on defeating new laws, but in watering them down "just enough" to call it a victory. I'm not alone in this criticism as several local Members Councils have also tried to bring this to the NRA's attention -- with little response. Getting any fighting money for California from the NRA is a waste of time. They say they want to pick battles they can win and ours certainly aren't it. Thanks for nothing.
The facts are that the majority of the CA population resides in the Blue areas and out votes the red. Add to that, the media here is primarily liberal and conservative voices are generally hand-picked to sound as off-beat as possible.
We aren't watching NASCAR at all. Most of the politically active gun owners are e-mailing, phoning and writing Sacramento every month to oppose one bill or another. They're just not listening.
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