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Thank you; I think your assessment is dead on.
As an aside, I remember distinctly when this was a free State. In the ‘60’s, depending on who you talked to, my Dad had the third or fourth largest gun collection in CA. Every day the doorbell would ring and the postman would deliver milsurp Mosin-Nagants, Mauser K98’s, SMLE’s, Garands, junky Carcanos, all sorts of revolvers, P-08’s, P-38’s, 1911’s etc., etc. You could get an NRA Excellent Garand or Carbine for $100, and an Ithaca or other 1911 for $35-$40. He had a world class collection of P-08’s, including Artillery models and two of the “American Eagle” models. He bought and sold Pythons in bulk paying $137 each, and worked as an armorer for the local PD on the side. Everyone wanted slicked up wheelguns like the Python, or S&W 27. He’d have sale days and setup 5 or 6 tables in our small house in San Jose covered in pistols, open to the public. After ‘68 he paid the $30 for an FFL, because of course the Govt said it was just for everyone’s safety and would never increase.
I’ve been shooting since I was 7, 55 years, and in looking at all my guns and accessories legally purchased over the years I realize that several are probably illegal now, and I have to ship them out of state.
My Father would be spinning in his grave if he saw all the crap we have to put up with thanks to the likes of Harris, Brown, and Newsom. No one thought it would come to this level, but here we are, jumping through ridiculous hoops. Two people in the same state can’t pay an FFL to transfer a gun between them.
Mods, my apologies if this is the wrong sub-forum for my rant. I’ve just been reading up on the new laws that are taking effect (which I did vote against and work to defeat last year), and am disgusted and frankly pissed.
I love CA otherwise, but enough is enough, and I’m doing my best to wrap things up so I can retire and move to a state that doesn’t treat the citizens who support it like inmates pounding out license plates for the Warden.
As an aside, I remember distinctly when this was a free State. In the ‘60’s, depending on who you talked to, my Dad had the third or fourth largest gun collection in CA. Every day the doorbell would ring and the postman would deliver milsurp Mosin-Nagants, Mauser K98’s, SMLE’s, Garands, junky Carcanos, all sorts of revolvers, P-08’s, P-38’s, 1911’s etc., etc. You could get an NRA Excellent Garand or Carbine for $100, and an Ithaca or other 1911 for $35-$40. He had a world class collection of P-08’s, including Artillery models and two of the “American Eagle” models. He bought and sold Pythons in bulk paying $137 each, and worked as an armorer for the local PD on the side. Everyone wanted slicked up wheelguns like the Python, or S&W 27. He’d have sale days and setup 5 or 6 tables in our small house in San Jose covered in pistols, open to the public. After ‘68 he paid the $30 for an FFL, because of course the Govt said it was just for everyone’s safety and would never increase.
I’ve been shooting since I was 7, 55 years, and in looking at all my guns and accessories legally purchased over the years I realize that several are probably illegal now, and I have to ship them out of state.
My Father would be spinning in his grave if he saw all the crap we have to put up with thanks to the likes of Harris, Brown, and Newsom. No one thought it would come to this level, but here we are, jumping through ridiculous hoops. Two people in the same state can’t pay an FFL to transfer a gun between them.
Mods, my apologies if this is the wrong sub-forum for my rant. I’ve just been reading up on the new laws that are taking effect (which I did vote against and work to defeat last year), and am disgusted and frankly pissed.
I love CA otherwise, but enough is enough, and I’m doing my best to wrap things up so I can retire and move to a state that doesn’t treat the citizens who support it like inmates pounding out license plates for the Warden.
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