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Calguns Expatriates For members who have left California but remain Calgunners |
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What’s going on in here and no trash talking to us Californians
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CPRA org “Silence makes cowards out of the best of men” –Abraham Lincoln 🇺🇸 ⚔️ 🦅 Wounded Knee is the prime example of why the Second Amendment exists, and why we shouldn’t be in such a hurry to surrender our Right to Bear Arms. Without the Second Amendment we have no way to defend ourselves and our families. |
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Nope. It would be fun to run into him though. I used to argue with him in the C&R forum YEARS AGO.....
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Yep, sounds like him. He taught me tons! I still use the old ammo crate shooting rest he gave me. His departure permanently ruined baking for me.
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Pittsburgh, PA! Although technically, I've never BEEN to CA, much less, left it. I've never been west of San Antonio, or se MT, for that matter.
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Question: If you are looking to purchase a used firearm from a private individual in your new state, do you even really need any form of ID? |
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Moved to Texas in late 2015 from Chico. Some there may remember me when I had my FFL--H&K Enterprises. Have attached a photo of my first AR build here. Yeah, when the dust cover opens, it reads "PLAN B".
I was going to write that this was my first build in a free state, then realized that isn't true. My first build was in what used to be California in 1993. Things were different then. |
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Moved to the rural parts of the Pacific Northwest in 2014 due to increasing dissatisfaction with the stranglehold the Democrats have put on everyday life in my home state of California. Life is much more satisfying now. Crime is very low, the threat of violence almost non existent. No more gangs, graffiti and trash everywhere. I can still surf and ski on the same day in uncrowded conditions.
Leaving California was not an easy decision to make but once we decided to join the growing exodus, it became apparent the it was the best decision we could have ever made. If California would go hard on crime, crack down on illegal aliens and cut all the grotesque regulations that stifle everyday life, we might come back but I am convinced conditions in California will continue to deteriorate before any improvements come. It is amazing to me how many people are leaving California because they are fed up with the deteriorating quality of life under majority Democrat Party rule. California is still a beautiful place with many wonderful and very hard working people but the negative impact on daily life due to the leftists in power has become too much to bear leading more and more people to leave the once great State of California. When I come to visit friends in my old hometown, they all confide in me their growing alarm at the deterioration in quality of life. Many are making plans to get out at some point. Some feel stuck and unable to leave for a variety of reasons but it is interesting how nearly everyone is talking about the decline that surrounds them and all are eager to hear from me what it's like living in a free state. |
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Wife and I are in the initial stages of moving to Oklahoma. I've got family there so it's not like we're completely alone, also have an aunt who drives up regularly from Louisiana to visit said Oklahoma family. While some current "fleeing" expats seem to be patting themselves on the back for hitting free state territory in Nevada and the PNW, those states are seemingly in danger of contracting the California Common Sense Abatement Syndrome. Nope, we're headed to where there's a better firewall. it is a little worrisome though that the state to the south of Oklahoma can't even get constitutional carry passed all while being held out as the preeminent state for RKBA. Probably why we were told by folks in Oklahoma, "Welcome! Unless you're from Texas....then get the hell out." We thought it was strange too.....
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Nevada.... maybe not far enough, but I need to rake it in as much as possible in CA before calling it quits. Not ruling out going farther away after the big "R".
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Southeast Arizona since Nov. 19, 2018.
Loving it!
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here in the great sunny outdoor gulag/insane asylum of the Bay Area
Dreaming of Utah someday...
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You didn't miss much.
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Central Florida, as of two and a half years ago. I felt like a Jew fleeing Nazi Germany ca 1933. I was California born and raised, but now living in exile - and I have ZERO plans of ever setting foot in that state again.
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This month marks 4 years for us in Prescott, AZ from Newbury Park.
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Bought house in Vegas 01/2018. Bought bed and safe day after closing.
March got DL (Real!), registered to vote and titled/registered 2 cars. June bought Sig P226 TACOPS and Gemtech gun muffler. March of this year got the muffler. October bought FN509. January bought Gemtech muffler for it. Hopefully will have it by Halloween. March this year bought Mossberg Shockwave shotgun. June this year sold CA house and bugged out on a Saturday.
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Boise, Idaho area as of November 2018. Semi-retired and a)hated the politics, b)hated the traffic, c)hated the taxes, d)hated the gun laws and e)did I say that I hated the politics. Wife and I left family behind and our opportunities to shoot Steel Challenge are "different", but the area is beautiful and life is a bit slower. People are very friendly despite the fact that the area is increasingly infested with Californians.
Showed up at the DMV last week to pick up my Enhanced CCW license. The wait for a DL was 186 minutes; the wait for a CCW request was 1 minute! Definitely a gun friendly state (Canyon County BTW). Received physical license in the mail about 10 days later. Last edited by rdtompki; 08-21-2019 at 5:07 AM.. |
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Born, raised, and lived in Northern California almost all my life. Had a successful IT business with employees. Wife was a hospice nurse. We just got sick of all the California crap and me working to support the state. Pulled the plug in the summer of 2016 and built a house in the Caldwell area and we retired early. First time I think I was ever ahead of the curve...
We have NO regrets. We were accepted warmly and love it here. The first several months I went nuts buying all the guns I couldn’t own in California then realized they weren’t going anywhere. I shot a season of single stack USPSA and met some really great folks.
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Owning guns makes heroin addiction look like a vague wish for something salty. Proud member of the 2016 California Quitters Club |
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None is required by either Idaho or federal law, unless I'm buying a C&R. At that point, I need to briefly see an id for bound book info.
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True wealth is time. Time to enjoy life. Life's journey is not to arrive safely in a well preserved body, but rather to slide in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "holy schit...what a ride"!! Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. Mark Twain A man's soul can be judged by the way he treats his dog. Charles Doran |
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Just found this part of Calguns...a great idea.
I'll try to do my best with the "No mocking, insulting or taunting your fellow members who live in California" part. We left CA in 1986 and moved to Flower Mound, TX. FM is equidistant to Dallas and Fort Worth and about 10 miles or so north of a line drawn between them. Stayed there about 15 years, leased our house on the CA coast to 3 sets of tenants with no problems. Moved back in 2000 with a plan to live there 2 years for tax reasons and then move to Idaho. Sold that house in CA and did the move 2 years and 11 days after moving back. Got to Idaho in June of 2002. Wife got a job with the Red Cross in Boise, and then worked for the Idaho Senate and retired this year after 11 years. Lack of RKBA in California was down the list as reasons for moving.
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True wealth is time. Time to enjoy life. Life's journey is not to arrive safely in a well preserved body, but rather to slide in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "holy schit...what a ride"!! Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. Mark Twain A man's soul can be judged by the way he treats his dog. Charles Doran |
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I’m up in Moscow, Idaho. Moved in 2015. College town up in the southern end of the panhandle. Even though there are liberal millennials and hippies there are plenty of conservatives in town (50/50) but everyone has at least one gun. Hunting is huge and nobody flinches at open carry. Get outside of town and it’s 99% red state. We love it up here.
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"On bended knee is no way to be free." - Eddie Vedder, "Guaranteed" "Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks." -Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to his nephew Peter Carr dated August 19, 1785 |
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South Dakota, where our new governor signed Constitutional Carry into law early this year. It went into effect July 1st! We are a shall issue state, and with reciprocity for a CCW we get almost 40 additional states. First gun show this past February, which was great! Instant background checks, then cash & carry - no pointless delay of a waiting period. There is life outside of Commiefornia! I’d have called it California Expatriates, ‘cause I’m still frequently checking in on CalGuns, which is the best forum, chat on firearms anywhere on the internet!
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West of Star and North of Caldwell.
Been here for 2 and 3/4 years. We all love it and I will never move back while alive and instructed the wife to not be buried in my ex home state. I don't want to be voting democrat forever after. |
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No but they are adopting dealer transfer of private sales later this year. A couple counties have a 3 day wait for handgun purchase - first time then cash & carry after you get your blue card.
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Which state do you live in??? Might be helpful to put your state location on each thread.
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True wealth is time. Time to enjoy life. Life's journey is not to arrive safely in a well preserved body, but rather to slide in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "holy schit...what a ride"!! Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. Mark Twain A man's soul can be judged by the way he treats his dog. Charles Doran |
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Benn in Precott for over a year now and love it. People are friendly, crime is very low (the last crime wave was 4 car break ins over a 2 week period and the Police were very concerned), gas is ~$1 cheaper per gallon and we get ~20% better mileage. Life is much better outside the Gulag.
Interesting thing is the neighborhood is predominantly Cal expats and when someone new moves in, the first question asked is are they conservative? The feeling is we are going to ensure this does not turn into Cal and it is great to hear things like that. |
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BTW, my name is Hank. |
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