It'll be interesting to see how many register their neutered ARs
SACRAMENTO (AP) — California gun owners starting Thursday are getting a second chance to register and keep a type of firearm that is now illegal to buy under the state’s expanded definition of assault weapons.
The registration period is for those who legally bought so-called bullet-button assault weapons.
Everybody that owned one has probably either already left for a Free State or is just waiting for the call to come pick up the U-Haul when the reservation comes due.
From the U-Haul website, rates for a 26' box truck for pickup on March 1, this year- From Sacramento to Dallas, TX $7,037. From Dallas, TX to Sacramento $853.
But this is obviously misinformation, as California politicians keep telling us that the idea that people are leaving the state because of higher taxes and more regulation is a myth.
Sounds like "voluntarily" putting your name on the Kalifornia list of the damned is violation of your right against self incrimination. I'd guess that the Brandon Administration can't "officially" give the purchase information to state and local law enforcement, but if you volunteer, that is on you.
Talk to your lawyer before you do anything. What will be worse? Putting yourself on the list for eventual confiscation (You know that it is a matter of time.) or holding out and risking getting busted with a prohibited weapon if you ever have to use it for defense or hunting? Get the run-down on the risks and benefits for either course of action. From a Mid-West perspective, it looks like a trap. Use care. Talk with a lawyer before you make that play.
I say there should be a Nation Gun-trade-athon. Everyone who has bought a firearm under a 4473 should privately swap that firearm(s) so that what you own now is from a private sale. The 4473 would no longer be valid.
Example: I got a P-9000 XLS. You have the same. Lets you and me meet to swap S/N. Now form 4473 is invalid. Oh, I also have this, and this, and that one, and those. Down at the local chapter of the National Xchange we swap S/N.
Fkum up good at the Fibbies and every other blasted alphabet agency. Why? Because we are THE PEOPLE, a self-governing entity devoted to wrangling fedgov back into only its enumerated powers. BFYTW
Anyone with any doubts about that need look no further than down under. The question is, was gun confiscation part of the long game that led to the terror going on there now? I firmly believe the 2nd amendment alone is not only unique in the world, it sets a precedent and an attitude among Americans that tyrants despise. As it should.
I live in CA. Went with the Mini-14 to avoid the BS 'assault rifle' restriction creep. No way I'm screwing around with a bullet button some other crap in order to pop in a magazine.
IIRC, originally the BB was dictated by TPTB. Then they changed the rules.
From personal experience I have found that the candidate who actually makes it through to becomee a SEAL are those who closely align to protocal written by admin types, thw latter being buffoons notwithstanding. They are, in a word, allegiant to the order rather than the Constitution. Physicality and aptitude get you there, but that obedience carries you through the door. That is why in any SWAT stack you may find a SpecOps guy.
So it is no surprise that a SEAL would obey the law however it is unilaterally decided.
(SEALs are some of the finest people you should ever have the good grace to know. But their alligience to laws which you knoww to be circumspect is teethgrinding maddening.
I can't even relate to this in any manner whatsoever. Here in the hated flyover South, the concept is not even possible.
Side note "War Story." In the Navy Reserve unit I was in down here in "these parts" we once had an XO assigned to our unit who was flying all the way in from California every month. He was a super nice guy and a true "40 pound head" with a PhD in Aerospace Engineering. I hosted an ATF day at my place for one Saturday afternoon after drill. Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, but not necessarily in that order of course! I had my 8 foot bed truck parked down at my shooting range area and the whole area was covered with piles of my guns, and other guys who had brought stuff out. He looked at it all with wide eyes and said, "Do you have a license for those!" About three of us simultaneously replied with a, "Yeah, it's called The Second Amendment!"
Played their stupid game the first time around in 2001. Registered two guns I figured I might be seen in public with. Keep a copy of that registration taped to the side of my safe--here in Texas.
Read the fine print. On a state level it's like an NFA item. They have the right to bust down your door and check "their" weapon. Mean while their version of a "Featureless" gun is much deadlier than a bullet button gun.
Based on the previous registration, 15% of owners will swallow the bait. I expect several owners will be deprived of life by agents of the state as they seek to bend the knee in full compliance to the state's diktats.
I follow the website 'Transparent California' quite a bit. It shows the name, job title and compensation for all government employees in California. California Department of Justice Special Agents are the only people I've found whose names are withheld, as are the names of their Supervisors. https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?q=SPECIAL+AGENT%2C+DEPARTMENT+OF+JUSTICE&y=2020 These are the people that will be kicking doors down when the time comes.
Now, why do you suppose these names are not 'Transparent'?
Or get around registering by putting in a "normal" magazine release and adding a fin, or some other work around.
ReplyDeleteThere's so damned many regulations on ARs in California, I don't understand why anybody would want one other than to say they've got one.
DeleteEverybody that owned one has probably either already left for a Free State or is just waiting for the call to come pick up the U-Haul when the reservation comes due.
ReplyDeleteEarlier this week I priced U-Haul trailers to leave CA. A 6x12 trailer came out at $3,700 to rent for a five day drive away from CA. FML.
DeleteFrom the U-Haul website, rates for a 26' box truck for pickup on March 1, this year-
DeleteFrom Sacramento to Dallas, TX $7,037.
From Dallas, TX to Sacramento $853.
But this is obviously misinformation, as California politicians keep telling us that the idea that people are leaving the state because of higher taxes and more regulation is a myth.
Better talk to your lawyer on this one.
ReplyDeleteSounds like "voluntarily" putting your name on the Kalifornia list of the damned is violation of your right against self incrimination. I'd guess that the Brandon Administration can't "officially" give the purchase information to state and local law enforcement, but if you volunteer, that is on you.
Talk to your lawyer before you do anything. What will be worse? Putting yourself on the list for eventual confiscation (You know that it is a matter of time.) or holding out and risking getting busted with a prohibited weapon if you ever have to use it for defense or hunting? Get the run-down on the risks and benefits for either course of action. From a Mid-West perspective, it looks like a trap. Use care. Talk with a lawyer before you make that play.
I say there should be a Nation Gun-trade-athon. Everyone who has bought a firearm under a 4473 should privately swap that firearm(s) so that what you own now is from a private sale. The 4473 would no longer be valid.
DeleteExample: I got a P-9000 XLS. You have the same. Lets you and me meet to swap S/N. Now form 4473 is invalid. Oh, I also have this, and this, and that one, and those. Down at the local chapter of the National Xchange we swap S/N.
Fkum up good at the Fibbies and every other blasted alphabet agency. Why? Because we are THE PEOPLE, a self-governing entity devoted to wrangling fedgov back into only its enumerated powers. BFYTW
A business that safely stores your firearm in a state with somewhat sane gun laws may be worth having.
DeleteRegistration leads to confiscation.
ReplyDeleteConfiscation leads to extermination.
Anyone with any doubts about that need look no further than down under.
DeleteThe question is, was gun confiscation part of the long game that led to the terror going on there now?
I firmly believe the 2nd amendment alone is not only unique in the world, it sets a precedent and an attitude among Americans that tyrants despise.
As it should.
I live in CA. Went with the Mini-14 to avoid the BS 'assault rifle' restriction creep. No way I'm screwing around with a bullet button some other crap in order to pop in a magazine.
ReplyDeleteSame.
DeleteDidn't put the bullet button in when I lived in the shithole. Had a x-seal tell me he registered his so they wouldn't bother him . Wrong!
ReplyDeleteIIRC, originally the BB was dictated by TPTB. Then they changed the rules.
DeleteFrom personal experience I have found that the candidate who actually makes it through to becomee a SEAL are those who closely align to protocal written by admin types, thw latter being buffoons notwithstanding. They are, in a word, allegiant to the order rather than the Constitution. Physicality and aptitude get you there, but that obedience carries you through the door. That is why in any SWAT stack you may find a SpecOps guy.
So it is no surprise that a SEAL would obey the law however it is unilaterally decided.
(SEALs are some of the finest people you should ever have the good grace to know. But their alligience to laws which you knoww to be circumspect is teethgrinding maddening.
I can't even relate to this in any manner whatsoever. Here in the hated flyover South, the concept is not even possible.
ReplyDeleteSide note "War Story." In the Navy Reserve unit I was in down here in "these parts" we once had an XO assigned to our unit who was flying all the way in from California every month. He was a super nice guy and a true "40 pound head" with a PhD in Aerospace Engineering. I hosted an ATF day at my place for one Saturday afternoon after drill. Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, but not necessarily in that order of course! I had my 8 foot bed truck parked down at my shooting range area and the whole area was covered with piles of my guns, and other guys who had brought stuff out. He looked at it all with wide eyes and said, "Do you have a license for those!" About three of us simultaneously replied with a, "Yeah, it's called The Second Amendment!"
Played their stupid game the first time around in 2001. Registered two guns I figured I might be seen in public with. Keep a copy of that registration taped to the side of my safe--here in Texas.
ReplyDeleteRead the fine print. On a state level it's like an NFA item. They have the right to bust down your door and check "their" weapon. Mean while their version of a "Featureless" gun is much deadlier than a bullet button gun.
ReplyDeleteBased on the previous registration, 15% of owners will swallow the bait. I expect several owners will be deprived of life by agents of the state as they seek to bend the knee in full compliance to the state's diktats.
ReplyDeleteI follow the website 'Transparent California' quite a bit. It shows the name, job title and compensation for all government employees in California. California Department of Justice Special Agents are the only people I've found whose names are withheld, as are the names of their Supervisors.
Deletehttps://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?q=SPECIAL+AGENT%2C+DEPARTMENT+OF+JUSTICE&y=2020
These are the people that will be kicking doors down when the time comes.
Now, why do you suppose these names are not 'Transparent'?