Governor Brown Signs Far-Reaching Anti-Gun Law

Unless you are an insurance adjuster or broker, person engaged solely in the business of securing information about persons or property from public records, a secured creditor engaged in repossession, security guard, movie maker, attorney, banker, collections agent, or other "specially" and specifically designated persons you will no longer be allowed to carry an UNLOADED and UNCONCEALED firearm.

"untrained, unscreened, self-appointed vigilante"

AB 144 was signed into law over the weekend and takes affect January 1, 2012.  The law is convoluted and misguided with countless exceptions having little rhyme or reason. 

There is an exemption granted to "savings association" and another for persons engaged in or attempting to make a lawful arrest.  That's right, you can have a completely useless unloaded gun if you are attempting to lawfully arrest someone or if you are somehow a savings association.

This new infringement on our the 2nd Amendment is in response to concerns from several police chiefs and sheriffs around California. 

According to the L.A. Times, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck says officers waste time responding to calls about people with guns who are otherwise being lawful.  It seems that officers and the public have a hard time distinguishing the difference between criminal and non-criminal activities.



Brian Malte



Under AB 144 what use to be harmless and lawful is at least a misdemeanor and probably a felony.

Brian Malte, director of state legislation for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, told the L.A. Times "California families will now be able to take their families to the park or out to eat without the worry of getting shot by some untrained, unscreened, self-appointed vigilante." 

But wait.  This law only concerns possession of an UNLOADED gun.  How does Malte make the jump from a unloaded guns to loaded guns??  It was already a crime to exercise vigilante justice as well as negligently discharge a firearm in a public place.  Now, no UNLOADED guns will be discharged??  What is Malte and his fascist Brady brats smoking??

Let's recap.  Brown has just criminalized something that cannot by its own definition hurt anyone- carrying an UNCONCEALED and UNLOADED gun. 



Ca. Assemblyman Anthony Portafino (D)



"The bottom line is the streets will be safer for law enforcement and families," said the bill's author, Assemblyman Anthony Portantino (D-La Canada Flintridge). "California is no longer the wild west, where citizens had to carry six-shooters on their hips for protection." 

Someone needs to tell Portantino that those six-shooters he is referring to are UNLOADED and completely inert.

The argument for passing AB 144 is completely baseless and does NOTHING to make California safer.  Some people just don't get it.

Out of Control Gun Control, Part 3

 According to CBSNews.com, the Mexican Attorney General says "full force of law" to be used in ATF gunwalking scandal investigation.

CBSNews.com:

Over the weekend, the Mexican attorney general stated: "The controlled trafficking of weapons is not authorized under the Mexican national legislation. An operation that would contemplate this would not have been acceptable to the Mexican government, and it will never be under any circumstance." The Mexican Attorney General also stated that it's conducting its own investigation to identify "the crimes that could have been carried out on Mexican territory."

You know our country is in bad shape when we need the Attorney General of MEXICO to help us get to the bottom of our own governments' corruption.

I would imagine if there were tons of contraband crossing into the U.S. everyday, our own U.S. Attorney General, Eric Holder, would be equally outraged...but he isn't.

Out of Control Gun Control, Part 2

As I indicated HERE, the White House is looking more culpable by the day as being the source of the directives that caused ATF field agents to NOT get involved in an international gun-running operation by Mexican drug cartels. 

As CBS News and other media look into this further, I think we will see that people close to the President knew about the ATF operations and gave direct orders for the ATF to NOT intervene.  More than likely, the Justice Department and White House will become overtly defensive and even more secretive.  This will raise additional awareness from Congress.  Then, under pressure from the Republican-lead Congress, White House staffers and advisers will begin to waffle on their lack of knowledge of the operation. 

The scandal will likely be subdued with the resignation of a few top officials who decide to "move on" to lecture or teach.  (Watch out Harvard; here come the White House washouts!)

Time will tell if the effort by the United States Government to flood the Mexican drug cartels with U.S.-sold guns will have any affect on the 2nd Amendment. 

Whatever happens will likely not include the apprehension and bringing to justice of those on both sides of the border who were complicit in the gun running. 

It makes you wonder why our own government would want ATF to stand-down.  Was the reason, as I suggested, to flood the cartels with guns in hopes of making it look as though the United States has weak gun control laws that need to be beefed up?  Or could it be that there is something even more sinister at work, such as bribery at the highest levels of our government?  I can only speculate...

Out of Control Gun Control

Earlier this year a story broke that has had the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Fire Arms in damage control mode. 

According to various media including CBS, the ATF allowed guns to be purchased in the U.S. by know drug cartel members and transported into Mexico. 

ATF field agents notified superiors of what was happening and were told to stand down.

This “stand-down” policy contributed heavily to the problem of U.S. guns in the hands of the drug cartels, the main reason cited by the Whitehouse for seeking to revise gun control laws.

In essence you have a White House initiative or agenda to disarm a nation and when more data is needed to support an otherwise baseless claim, you order law enforcement to stand-down from doing their job so that a new problem can blossom. 

Ok, maybe it isn’t quite so cut and dry.  Maybe President Obama didn’t tell Napolitano to tell her agents to stand-down.  But even absent a smoking gun (yes, a lame pun), it certainly calls into question the operational policies of our federal law enforcement agencies. 

The federal law enforcement and investigative agents I have known over the years have all been committed to protecting the U.S.  They have all been well trained and educated.  The last thing field agents need is for management to handcuff (yes, another lame pun) their enforcement duties.  If management feels a law is unenforceable, seek to have the law amended or abolished.

As liberal gun control advocates seek to disarm lawful U.S. citizens by creating new laws that are even more restrictive, we must recognize that current laws are under enforced at all levels. 

Until current gun control laws are fully and fairly enforced by field agents with the support of their respective supervisors and prosecutors, the legislature and White House should steer clear of proposing new restrictions that will soon fail from lack of enforcement. 

You can read the latest from CBSNews.com by clicking HERE.

OC Register Sides With Gun Owners

"Self-defense is a basic right, recognized by many legal systems from ancient times to the present day," wrote Justice Samuel Alito, who was joined in the majority by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. (from the OCR)

The big question on my mind is this:  Is the right to keep and bear arms in the name of self-defense only a right of someone occupying a residence?  What about the "houseless" (a term my brother likes to use and rightfully so)?  What about business owners and workers?  Do you have to have a structure in which you you live, pay rent, or own in order to defend your self with a firearm?  I think not.

Based on the Court's ruling, I think the right to self-defense is not limited to the domicile but rather anywhere a person is.  The only exceptions that I could foresee might include public schools and buildings such as City Hall, where there is a police presence and command of security to defend the defenseless. 

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