California gun control


Sacramento Gang Shootout Is Just the Incentive California’s Legislature Needs to Pile Still More Restrictions on Law-Abiding Gun Owners

The shooting prompted national and state leaders to issue familiar calls for stronger gun control measures.  Sen. [Robert] Hertzberg’s bill is conditional on the Texas abortion law remaining valid and not struck down by the…


The One Thing California Politicians Won’t Try to Reduce ‘Gun Violence’: Putting More Criminals in Jail

So why, if California’s much-vaunted gun control laws have failed to choke off the supply of legal and illegal weapons, do politicians continue to claim that enacting even more will have an effect? … The…


Time to Face Reality in California: It’s the Crime, Not the Guns

By Joe Bartozzi The senseless homicides of six in Sacramento are tragic. It is a shocking and sober reminder that criminals have no respect for the law or for human life. That’s why it’s appalling…


FPC: California’s Proposed Gun Control Schemes Are Modern Day Jim Crow Laws

California Governor Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta held a press conference yesterday to boast about the state’s latest attacks on fundamental human rights. In response, the Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) issued the following statement: The State of…


Trying to Distract From His Polls, Failed Covid Policies, Gavin Newsom Rails Against Guns. Again. Still.

Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday backed legislation that would let private citizens enforce the state’s ban on assault weapons. It’s modeled after a Texas law that lets private citizens enforce that state’s ban on abortions once…


California Senate Bill Would Require Parents Public School Students to Disclose Firearm Ownership

TTAG reader Jonathan Jenkins writes . . . California Senator Anthony Portantino is back at it with a new “campus safety” bill that he says is aimed at preventing school shootings. “With common sense proactive…


Bloomberg Law Has Found A Gun Control Law California Somehow Missed!

The acquittal [of Kyle Rittenhouse] revealed a gap in the law that California should address. Rittenhouse exacerbated an already volatile situation by bringing his AR-15 into a curfew zone. A curfew is imposed by a…


Laboratory of Regulation: California Illustrates De Facto Racist Nature of Gun Control Laws

“All of this stuff that you see right now is just that, ‘Oh, we’re wealthy, we can just go buy [guns],’” [Maj] Toure added. “But yet and still, the areas that have the most crime…


California Forced to Re-Open ‘Assault Weapon’ Registration System Beginning January 13, 2022

From the Second Amendment Foundation . . . The California Department of Justice has announced the dates when it will re-open registration of so-called “assault weapons” required by a federal court as a result of…