UP YOURS, JERRY BROWN

SPECIAL POST

Jerry Brown this weekend signed into law six of the dumbest and obviously political bills ever signed into law in California.  These laws were pushed through as a direct result of the San Bernardino and Orlando terrorist attacks.  "My goal in signing these bills is to enhance public safety by tightening our existing laws in a responsible and focused manner, while protecting the rights of law-abiding gun owners," he claimed.  Not one of these laws would have changed what occurred in San Bernardino, Orlando or anywhere else. 

Here they are, with my opinions:
1.  Reclassifies thousands of legally owned semi-automatic rifles as assault weapons and bans their ownership or possession.  The types of weapons being banned have no association with any terrorist or individual gun crime.  
 
2.  Bans automatic magazine locking devices on rifles.  These devices have nothing whatsoever to do with gun crime of any type.  

3.  Makes it illegal to temporarily loan a gun to anyone except an immediate family member without going to a gun dealer and getting a permit for it.  In other words, if you and I are at the gun range and start talking the differences between our guns and to allow each other to try the other one's gun, that's totally illegal.  

 4.  Bans gun ownership for ten years to anyone who falsely claims that one of their firearms has been stolen.  Suppose you come home one night and discover a gun missing and you file a report.  You then remember that your wife has been taking lessons at the local gun shop and she has the gun.  T.S.    

5.  Requires a background check every time you go to buy ammunition.  If you decide right now to go hunting or to the range and you don't have ammo, you're going to have to wait for and pay for a background check.  Well, I could drive across the border and buy my ammo, but that's against the law.  I could borrow some from my friend, but that's against the law.   Moreover, the store where you buy the ammo has to keep a record of the purchase and provide it to the attorney general.  If I buy too much ammo, they're going to come knocking at my door.  
 
6.  There's a current California law saying you cannot buy or use a magazine that holds more than ten cartridges.  This new law says that, even if you had the magazine before the law went into effect, you have to get rid of it; it's illegal to own one or possess one, even if you're planning on traveling to a state where such magazines are legal.   

 Not one of these laws is going to have any bearing on gun crime.   Criminals, terrorists and thugs are not going to give a damn about these laws.  So, all this amounts to is turning the legal gun owner into a criminal... a second class citizen.  
 
And not one of these laws adds any penalties to actual gun crimes or terrorist activities.  

Up yours, Jerry Brown.  You and the jackasses who originated these B.S. laws need some Colorado-style recall justice.    

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.