We would like to offer our heartfelt condolences to all 18- to 20-year-olds in the State of California, where your State Senate has recently voted that you are not people. We thought that you were people all along, but our moral betters in the Democratic Party have set us straight. The Second Amendment clearly states that “the right of the people” shall not be infringed. But the right of 18- to 20-year-olds in California was just infringed… therefore, you must not be people. Sorry, guys.
The California Senate voted 21 to 10 in favor of a bill that raises the legal age from 18 to 21 for purchasing rifles or shotguns. In addition, SB 1100 limits everyone’s ability to purchase more than one firearm per month.
Imagine the howls of rage the Democrats would be emitting if Americans tried to do the same thing with other constitutional rights — the voting age, for example. If an individual lacks the moral, emotional and intellectual maturity to be able to purchase or own a rifle, then surely, they’re not ready to vote, right? David Hogg would be staging 24-hour die-ins on the White House lawn if Americans applied liberal logic to a “right” that uniquely benefits the Democrat Party. Come to think of it…. sorry, David Hogg, you don’t have the right to freedom of speech until you’re 21, since we’re going to play the “rights don’t apply if you’re not old enough” game.
Gun-grabbers know that they will never be able to ban the Second Amendment in one fell swoop, so they weaken it by chipping away at our rights, one little bit at a time with bills like SB 1100. This process is aided and abetted by the corrupt judiciary system, which now interprets laws based on previous case law, rather than the letter of existing law.
In a sane legal system, a judge would look at the text of SB 1100, compare it to the text of the Second Amendment, and then proceed to pour gasoline on SB 1100 and throw lit matches at it until it exists no more. Case closed.
Instead, we live in a system where a trial lawyer in another state will now look at SB 1100 in California (assuming that it passes the House and is signed into law, which it will be). That trial lawyer will argue that because California has ruled that no one under 21 is allowed to purchase a firearm, there is a legal precedent to bar other groups of people from gun ownership based on age. So, in that secondary state, anyone over age 65 will suddenly be banned from firearms ownership. And so on.
California is sinking further and further into the abyss when it comes to gun rights. The state has passed so many new laws, rules and regulations just in 2018 alone that gun owners can no longer keep up with the rules. Jeffrey Kirschenmann, of Bakersfield, CA, made a good faith effort in May to register a semiautomatic rifle with the state under its newly-discovered guidelines. It turns out that his semiautomatic was “illegal” based on another California regulation that he was unaware of.
In response to that good faith effort, the California Department of Justice kicked in his door, confiscated all 12 of his firearms that were legal just the day before, and confiscated his ammo (230 rounds) and a pair of suppressors.
He’s being charged with 12 felonies for being a Good Samaritan and trying to comply with the law. The people get the message, California — although we’re probably not taking away the same message as the one you want us to get. If this is what compliance gets you, well, then, the people will say to hell with compliance.
In Oregon, 20-year-old Tyler Watson is suing Dick’s Sporting Goods and Wal-Mart for their new store-imposed policy of refusing to sell hunting rifles or shotguns to 18- to 20-year-olds. Even if Mr. Watson prevails in his case, and we hope he does, it won’t likely set an applicable precedent that can be used against the soon-to-be-“law” in California (private stores are not governments).
There are signs of hope out there, though. NRA membership is through the roof, topping 6 million total now. New Jersey passed a ban on bump stocks and gave everyone a deadline to turn their bump stocks in. Total number turned in: Zero. Perhaps New Jersians are not as gullible as the Good Samaritans in California.
~ American Gun News
Not true! At least, not yet. Bills have until 8/31 to be passed by both houses (Assembly and Senate), then go to governor for approve or no.
California’s lawmakers are at odds with their own population! The voters do no support these legislative actions and you can expect to have a big surge to get these jackasses oit of office! Gov Jerry Brown is a loon. The AG is a lawless brigand. The Democrat Senators and Congressman are all crazy or mentally incapable of performing their jobs. Pelosi and Waters both can barely speak coherently. Schiff can only utter total fabrications of the truth. The Republicans are gathering strength and all the media can do is lie about everything!
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Imagine the howls of rage the Democrats would be emitting if Americans tried to do the same thing with other constitutional rights — the voting age, for example. If an individual lacks the moral, emotional and intellectual maturity to be able to purchase or own a rifle, then surely, they’re not ready to vote, right?
what if we also raise the age to serve in the military, travel by motor vehicle, or even going fishing, don’t forget working especially on farms. Where will it stop ? By the way I as many others, celebrated my 20th birthday in Viet Nam trying to protect the Constitutional RIGHTS of these dumb *** Liberals. Where were they?
The democrats true goal is total gun confiscation and every new gun law they come up with takes us closer to their goal. So no matter what party you belong to we must unite to save our second amendment rights and that means you democrats who own guns.
It is time for California to be divided into four states. Let the liberals/communists have their state and the other three states will be turned over to the conservatives and people that uses common sense in their every day lives.
It is apparent that what I was told about California is true. ‘ California is run by LGBT? , Nuts and Ultra Liberals. Stay away!
Gun confiscation is always the first step in taking over a country (Woodrow Wilson, the first progressive, would have liked nothing better). We have proof of that during the twentieth century when so many (dozens of countries in Europe and Asia) over threw the governments and then confiscated all the guns and rounded up people who were seen as enemies, or untrustworthy by the dictator, and shot or in some other way murdered and buried them in mass graves. Somewhere between 170 million and 260 million people in all were murdered by governments throughout the world. That is just one of the results of gun confiscation. Our founders were very wise to put the second amendment into our “Bill of Rights.” Without that second amendment we may not still exist as a sovergn nation today. We have proof of that unfolding at this very minute revealing all the corruption created by the last administration. At least we now know what the promised fundamental transformation was into don’t we? The question now is what would have happened if Hillary Clinton had won the election? Now that is a story that needs to be told. If we ever hope to prevent what happened under Obama from happening again it needs to come out!
In the final analysis never, absolutely never, give up your guns for a promise from government of protection by government it has never worked except to control the mass majority of the people and for all practical purposes imprison them. Everyone has the God given right to self protect never give it up. Remember a gun is like a parachute if you need one and do not have one you’ll never need one again.