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CA:Meeting will cover new gun laws
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Meeting will cover new gun laws firearms: Debate will rage in Sacramento; state By DEBRA LEMOINE/Staff WriterVICTORVILLE - California's love-hate relationship with guns may once again be debated in Sacramento, and gun enthusiasts are digging in for the fight.State Sen. Pete Knight, R-Palmdale, will host a town hall meeting next week to talk to gun owners and hear their concerns about upcoming legislation and new gun-control laws going into effect this year."Criminals are not going to comply with all these laws," Knight said, adding that he believes gun owners should comply with the laws even if they don't agree with them.At the meeting, he will discuss the ramifications of current laws and potential gun-control legislation. Right now, he didn't know of any pending legislation, but gun owners say there's still a lot to be concerned about."The Second Amendment is the Second Amendmentand is not to be infringed upon," said Janie Palubin, a Hesperia resident and gun enthusiast. "The state of California is basically infringing on everybody's rights."She was upset about a law going into effect this year requiring the registration of all handguns, including a safety class and training for owners. She fears it may expand into registering all gun owners and guns like cars and drivers at the Department of Motor Vehicles."Registration leads to confiscation," she said.In other countries where guns and their owners were registered, their guns were eventually taken away, she said.Firearms dealer Joe Soldano of Oak Hills said the new gun lock law is making guns more expensive.California is requiring all guns manufactured and sold in the state to have locks that meet its standards. Soldano said that all new guns come with locks, but he has to buy ones approved by the state to replace them. He compared it to the state making consumers buy a California-approved spare tire with their car even though their car comes with a good spare tire."It doesn't mean that they're inferior," he said. "They just haven't been approved by the state of California yet." http://www.vvdailypress.com/cgi-bin/newspro/viewnews.cgi?newsid1011112794,49740,