Assembly and Senate Public Safety Committees heard 5 gun bills between them, this morning, June 21, 2011.
A Bill to register ammunition and one also to register long guns, a bill to give the DOJ access to more of the DROS fee funds, and a bill that makes it easier to get a CCW, all passed out of the Assembly PSC. (We support the last one.) What didn't pass out is notable. SB 798 would turn BB guns into imitation or toy guns and then they would come under the mandate to be brightly colored that the bill requires. Lots of testimony against this bill....the manufactures and vendors really turned out in good numbers...the California Police Association voiced their opposition as well....You can see the danger of look alike guns being brightly painted, for creative criminals can paint real guns to look like toys. The real thing though is that this bill would preempt Federal law. Can't do that, so the bill failed its vote. However, it is granted reconsideration! Anti-gun California law makers are not above thumbing their noses at Federal law and most likely will spend their time until the next hearing trying to figure out a way to do just that!
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