The following letter was received from Chris W. Cox (NRA-ILA Executive Director). If you value your rights as a U.S. citizen to keep and bear arms (2nd amendment), then please read this letter and take action today. All three of the bills listed in this post are still active (as of this writing) which means they can still be influenced.
I am contacting you today with an urgent message. Your rights as a gun owner are under attack in Sacramento and you must act now if we are going to stop this unprecedented assault on the Second Amendment.
In the next few days, the California Legislature will consider three radical anti-gun bills that will pile even more restrictions on law-abiding California gun owners and sportsmen.
First is AB1810. This bill will expand the California’s registration requirements to cover all long guns. California already registers handguns. Now, California’s politicians want to waste billions of taxpayer dollars to keep track of your legally owned long guns as well, in spite of the fact that long guns are rarely used in crime.
This is nothing short of a direct assault on your fundamental Second Amendment rights. It will set the stage for even more gun laws, including more gun bans, gun rationing and other extreme proposals. Time after time, gun registries have been used to assist anti-gun governments to confiscate firearms.
Long gun registration is not a new idea. It’s been tried and it’s failed. Right now, the Canadian government is considering the elimination (if its long gun registry, which has cost billions of dollars and served no useful purpose for law enforcement. In the midst of a budget crisis, California can’t afford to waste billions of taxpayer dollars on such a useless system.
Next is AB1934, to ban the open carry of unloaded handguns. Anti-gun politicians in the legislature are not satisfied that law-abiding people are almost completely denied the Right to Carry in California; now they want to ban unloaded guns. And why? Because they fear even the sight of a firearm! This irrational fear of firearms is one of the main reasons anti-gunners continue to attack our right to keep and bear arms.
The open or concealed carry of firearms by law-abiding citizens is no threat to public safety. This bill extends California’s unnecessary restriction on the Right to Carry to include even unloaded firearms! AB 1934 is a knee-jerk reaction by anti-gun legislators to punish citizens for engaging in a legal act that harms no one. In reality, the open carrying of firearms-by-law-abiding citizens is caused by California’s unfair concealed carry law, which allows citizens from one county to apply for and receive a permit to carry, while their neighbors in the next county are denied that basic right in a capricious and arbitrary manner, usually due to political, and not public safety, reasons.
Rather than add to the restrictions on the rights of law-abiding gun owners, the legislature should take steps to ensure that all the people of California are treated equally under the law by enacting a state-wide shall-issue Right to Carry law, with clear standards for the issuance of a carry permit that all counties must follow.
Finally, AB2223 would ban the use of lead shot for hunting in wildlife management areas. This bill is not about the environment or protecting wildlife. It is about attacking our hunting heritage. It has the support of extremist animal “rights” groups, like the Humane Society of the United States, as well as radical environmental groups. What it does not have is one shred of legitimate scientific data to back up the claims that using lead shot in hunting has any negative
impact on wildlife populations or the environment.
This bill will make hunting more expensive and force hunters to use hard-to-find non-lead ammo,
in turn reducing the revenue that flows to conservation programs from the sale of hunting licenses.
But the truth is, this bill has never been about protecting wildlife or the environment. It’s about reducing the number of hunters. The anti-hunting radicals want to make hunting so expensive and the laws so intrusive that hunters give up.
Please act immediately to stop these anti-gun bills! There is no time to wait! The anti-gunners have these bills fast-tracked. You must contact your Assembly Member and State Senator TODAY!
Every Californian’s Second Amendment freedoms will be seriously damaged if these bills are allowed to pass. Please call and write your lawmakers immediately and urge them to oppose AB1810, AB1934 and AB2223.
Here is the contact information for our representatives:
Assembly Member Kevin Jeffries (66th Assembly District)
Capitol Office: (916) 319-2066
District Office: (951) 894-1232
41391 Kalmia Street, Suite 220
Murrieta, CA 92562
Assembly Member Paul Cook (65th Assembly District)
Capitol Office: (916) 319-2065
District Office: (909) 790-4196
34932 Yucaipa Blvd
Yucaipa, CA 92399
State Senator Barbara Boxer
112 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington DC, 20510
202-224-3553
State Senator Diane Feinstein
331 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington DC, 20510
202-224-3841
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