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california residents???

SUBMARINERSUBMARINER Member Posts: 1,362 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited July 2002 in General Discussion
i need a history lesson.i have always thought that the govt in ca registered assault weapons.then the next year confiscated the registered weapons.i was told the other day that the ban did not apply to firearms already owned,just that you couldnt buy new ones.like i said i thought ca had told the owners of the "offensive" weapons that they could either turn them in or the state would send swat teams to get them.someone set me straight please

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  • Shootist3006Shootist3006 Member Posts: 4,171
    edited November -1
    Trying to make a complex issue simple (or an illogical position logical):

    You are both right and wrong. Kalifornia has passed 2 different 'assault' weapons bans, the first (1991) named specific banned models/brands. The second ban (2000) was by 'ugly weapon' criteria, banning rifles, shotguns and even some pistols by cosmetic characteristics. This banned such items as rifles with pistol grips, flash suppressors or bayonet lugs.

    The other half of your question
    quote:I have always thought that the govt in ca registered assault weapons.then the next year confiscated the registered weapons is mostly (but not entirely) urban legend. The previous Attorney General allowed registration to continue after the cutoff date because the law was VERY confusing and poorly advertised. The current AG (and a court case) say that the late registered guns must be surrendered. In theory, they could come and confiscate them but I don't know of that happening. The few folk I know that fell into this never-never land just moved their guns out of state.

    This doesn't help clear things up much, like I said - trying to make the illogical logical!!


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  • SUBMARINERSUBMARINER Member Posts: 1,362 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    so the nra was misleading???????????????????????????????

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  • Mr. LoboMr. Lobo Member Posts: 538 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    SaxonPig has it right but I thought that we could still sell them out of state if we chose to. I know a couple of people that had more AR's than they needed and they told me that they sold the extras out of state. Were they breaking the law? Oh and the other loop hole if you will is that the police can still buy them in Calif. but I believe there has to be some sort of letter from their commanding officer. I also had a friend of a friend that the police came to his house and took his Uzi because he did not register it but this happened several years ago and I am not sure how they found him.

    Jim
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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    No, I don't think they were breaking the law by selling them out of state. I think that was one of the recommended options. CA was just glad to be rid of them. As far as contraband goes, it's only contraband until the right litigant takes a suit based on confiscation to the Supreme Court. California bureaucrats will then look even sillier than they did when it took them two years to settle their driver licensing vendor lawsuit.

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  • dads-freeholddads-freehold Member Posts: 1,361 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    greetings, say submariner did you hear any thing about your air marshal application, just nosy i guess. again good luck man. respt submitted dads-freehold

    rodney colson
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