Why Assault Weapon Registration is California is a LIE!!!
All Legal Firearm sales in the State of California must be conducted with a Federally licensed, State Licensed and Locally licensed firearm dealer. All information for the Firearm is recorded and sent to the CA DOJ. The buyers information is kept on file. The FBI /NICS background check verifies the Buyer can legally buy the firearm. If one is buying a used firearm or is even being gifted a firearm, The buyer and seller both must show up at the Licensed Firearm Dealer for the transfer, paperwork and background check. The buyer must also possess a current Firearm buyer card.
So how does registering newly defined assault weapons help Police and public safety?
CA DOJ already knows who owns the firearms.
We passed 3 different prior registrations in California
1989 Roberti Roos
Y2K California AWB Registration
Now the disastrous 2017 CA AWB
Lets say we did not require registration.
CA DOJ still knows that you own the Firearm.
A dealer could not process a sale as the software would block the sale in the system.
You could easily block the transfer of any private party sale when the buyer and seller showed up at the FFL as the firearm is now classified as a non transferrable AW in California. Sounds reasonable right?
Where are the statistics from the 3 prior registrations showing: Public safety was increased, Police safety was increased, Crime was reduced, Mass Shootings reduced, Etc?
I have not heard a single Police Chief/Sheriff/DOJ/FBI ever say that the 3 California Assault Weapon Registrations provided any public good.
Let me repeat that, I have NEVER heard of any Law enforcement nor FBI citing that the 3 California bills made the public safer. The FBI did state that the Clinton 1994 Federal AWB had no effect on crime.
There is no benefit articulated to public safety by creating a Shindler's List of Registered AW !
None!!
So why do we oppose registration??? Good question. It is a question answered by Diane Feinstein in 1995: If I could get 51 additional votes in the Senate, I would take away every firearm in America!
So regardless of Paranoid Gun nuts being paranoid gun nuts, speak honestly. California and most of the nation are focusing on Legal, paperwork filing firearm owners. Ask your self another critical question: Why did Jerry Brown eliminate all mandatory jail terms for Criminals using firearms in a crime? (#3)
“If I could have gotten...an outright ban – ‘Mr. and Mrs. America turn in your guns’ – I would have!”
60 Minutes 1995
Senator Diane Feinstein, author of the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban
Feinstein in 1995: 'Mr. and Mrs. America, Turn Them All In'
Feinstein in 1995: 'Mr. and Mrs. America, Turn Them All In'
During a "60 Minutes" interview on February 5, 1995 when discussing the federal assault weapons ban, Sen. Feinst...
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9/30/2018
Governor Jerry Brown signed into law Senate Bill 1393, authored by State Senators Holly Mitchell (Los Angeles) and Ricardo Lara (Long Beach). With his signature, Brown, ended the mandatory application of the 5-year sentence enhancement given for each prior serious felony on a person’s record at the time when a person is currently charged with a serious felony. The bill is part of Senator Mitchell and Senator Lara’s Equity and Justice Package of 2018, which seeks justice reforms for juveniles and adults.
Bill Text - SB-1393 Sentencing.
Bill Text - SB-1393 Sentencing.
(iii) During the commission of the current offense, the defendant used a firearm, was armed with a firearm or deadly weapon, or intended to cause great bodily injury to another person.
(VI) Assault with a machine gun on a peace officer or firefighter, as defined in paragraph (3) of subdivision (d) of Section 245.
(VII) Possession of a weapon of mass destruction, as defined in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 11418.
Assembly Bill 424 made it illegal for teachers to be armed for self-defense.
Bill Text - SB-620 Firearms: crimes: enhancements.
Bill Text - SB-620 Firearms: crimes: enhancements.
Senate Bill 620 removed the mandatory enhancement for using a gun for crime. SB 620 removed the mandatory enhancement from the Penal Code and placed it at the discretion of the judge presiding over the case.
SB 620, Bradford. Firearms: crimes: enhancements.
Existing law requires that a person who personally uses a firearm in the commission of a felony be punished by an additional and consecutive term of imprisonment in the state prison for 3, 4, or 10 years. Existing law requires that a person who personally uses an assault weapon or a machinegun in the commission of a felony be punished by an additional and consecutive term of imprisonment in the state prison for 5, 6, or 10 years. Existing law requires a person who personally uses a firearm to commit certain specified felonies to be punished by an additional and consecutive term of imprisonment in the state prison for 10 years, or for 20 years if he or she discharged the firearm, or for 25 years to life if he or she discharges the firearm and proximately causes great bodily harm. Existing law prohibits the court from striking an allegation or finding that would make a crime punishable pursuant to these provisions.
This bill would delete the prohibition on striking an allegation or finding and, instead, would allow a court, in the interest of justice and at the time of sentencing or resentencing, to strike or dismiss an enhancement otherwise required to be imposed by the above provisions of law
