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07-03-2008, 01:17 PM
NRA Members' Councils of California
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CALNRA: Anti-Gun Bills Before Committee
7/3/2008 12:05 PM - PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY

On 7/1/2008, The California NRA Members' Councils released a new CAL-ERT regarding 4 bills before the Senate Appropriations Committee:
http://www.calnra.com/calerts/calert070108.shtml

AB 2062 (DeLeon) HANDGUN AMMUNITION SALES RESTRICTIONS
This bill would: 1) Ban the sales/transfer of more than 50 handgun cartridges from one person to another unless the person has a Handgun ammunition vendor's license. 2) Register the sale of handgun ammunition requiring purchasers to submit to fingerprinting and logging of personal information. 3) Ban the Internet or Mail-order sales of handgun ammunition to Californians. 4) Require anyone selling/transferring handgun ammunition to be licensed by the California Department of Justice.
STATUS: Senate Appropriations Committee -- OPPOSE

AB2235 (Desaulinier) OWNER-AUTHORIZED HANDGUN MANDATE AND CONVENTIONAL HANDGUN BAN
This bill would BAN the introduction for sales in California any new handgun models that do not have the electronic “owner-authorized” technology. The bill would require the Attorney General, commencing July 1, 2009, and every July 1 thereafter through 2014, to report to the Governor and the Legislature regarding the progress made on the availability for retail sale of owner-authorized handguns, as specified. The bill would also require the Attorney General, upon determining that owner-authorized handguns are available for retail sale, to issue a report, within 6 months of that determination, proposing statutory changes needed to implement certain requirements related to owner-authorized handguns, as specified. Provide that commencing 18 months following the Attorney General's reporting that owner-authorized handguns are available for retail sale, as specified, a handgun would be unsafe if it was not owner-authorized, as defined.
STATUS: Senate Appropriations Committee -- OPPOSE

AB1634 (Levine) MANDATORY SPAY/NEUTER OF PETS AND HUNTING DOGS
This bill would increase the above fines for a non-spayed or un-neutered dog to $50 for the first occurrence, $100 for the 2nd occurrence, and would require spaying or neutering of the dog at the owner's expense on the 3rd occurrence. This bill also require the owner of a non-spayed or un-neutered dog that is the subject of a complaint to a local animal control agency, as specified, to be cited and pay a civil penalty to the local animal control agency within 30 days. It would require a local animal control agency to waive the civil penalty if, within 14 business days of the citation, the pet's owner presents written proof from a licensed veterinarian that the dog or cat was spayed or neutered.
STATUS: Senate Appropriations Committee -- OPPOSE

AB2948 (Leno) GUN SHOW BAN
This bill would BAN the sale of firearms and ammunition at the Cow Palace Gun Show in San Francisco.
STATUS: Senate Appropriations Committee -- OPPOSE

Immediate Action requested:
KEEP UP THE PRESSURE!!! Please continue to CALL, FAX, and EMAIL the legislators. All three methods of communication are effective and we must keep up the broad-based effort.

Contact Information:
Senate Appropriations Committee - The phone number for this committee is (916) 445-3284. A complete listing of all of the members of the Senate Appropriations Committee phone/fax/email information can be found HERE...
http://calnra.com/legs/senapprops.shtml
...Also, you can send a single email to each of the Senate Appropriations Committee Members by using the special "ONE CLICK" email address that you can find HERE...
http://calnra.com/legs.shtml#oneclick
...By sending one email to the special "ONE CLICK" address, each one of the Senate Appropriations Committee Members will receive a copy of your message (so it is probably a good idea to address your messages with: Dear Senator,).

For other California legislative updates, please visit:
http://calnra.com/legs.shtml

Josh3239
07-03-2008, 01:19 PM
Just sent an email out regarding AB 2062.

For those of you that want as well here is the list of of email addresses of all the state senate appropriations committee members. It was a PITA to get that all into the hotmail send bar so now you can just copy and paste:

senator.battin@sen.ca.gov; senator.ashburn@sen.ca.gov; senator.aanestad@sen.ca.gov; senator.correa@sen.ca.gov; senator.cedillo@sen.ca.gov; senator.florez@sen.ca.gov; senator.runner@sen.ca.gov; senator.oropeza@sen.ca.gov; senator.ridley-thomas@sen.ca.gov; senator.torlakson@sen.ca.gov; senator.dutton@sen.ca.gov; senator.kuehl@sen.ca.gov; senator.corbett@sen.ca.gov; senator.cox@sen.ca.gov; senator.yee@sen.ca.gov; senator.wyland@sen.ca.gov; senator.calderon@sen.ca.gov

AYEAREFIFTEEN
07-03-2008, 01:32 PM
AB2235 (Desaulinier) OWNER-AUTHORIZED HANDGUN MANDATE AND CONVENTIONAL HANDGUN BAN
This bill would BAN the introduction for sales in California any new handgun models that do not have the electronic “owner-authorized” technology. The bill would require the Attorney General, commencing July 1, 2009, and every July 1 thereafter through 2014, to report to the Governor and the Legislature regarding the progress made on the availability for retail sale of owner-authorized handguns, as specified. The bill would also require the Attorney General, upon determining that owner-authorized handguns are available for retail sale, to issue a report, within 6 months of that determination, proposing statutory changes needed to implement certain requirements related to owner-authorized handguns, as specified. Provide that commencing 18 months following the Attorney General's reporting that owner-authorized handguns are available for retail sale, as specified, a handgun would be unsafe if it was not owner-authorized, as defined.
STATUS: Senate Appropriations Committee -- OPPOSE

Wait, this is for real? Am I reading this wrong? "Electronic" locks basically?

What century are these guys living in?

Josh3239
07-03-2008, 01:36 PM
Wait, this is for real? Am I reading this wrong? "Electronic" locks basically?

What century are these guys living in?

Only allow guns that have features that don't exist, I suppose it is easier to get people to vote for that over legislation that just says, "ban anything that can be considered a firearms". They have layed off the outright bans and are going for backdoor bans.