California’s Roster of Handguns Certified for Sale is a cunning gun control scheme dressed up as public safety, designed to erode the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Californians. This restrictive list, managed by the California Department of Justice, dictates which handguns can be sold in the state, imposing arcane requirements like microstamping, chamber load indicators, and magazine disconnect mechanisms. The state limits the handguns that Californians can legally purchase to about 750 models, many of them variations of the same model. That’s a fraction of the variety available to Americans who do not reside in California – and it ironically bans the sale of newer firearms with cutting-edge safety features. Far from protecting citizens, the roster blocks access to modern firearms with cutting-edge safety features, reflecting the liberal elite’s agenda to disarm Californians through bureaucratic overreach. Legal challenges, including those led by the California Rifle and Pistol Association, are exposing this policy as an unconstitutional attack on fundamental rights. …
This preliminary victory [in Boland v. Bonta] exposes the roster’s true purpose: to discourage lawful gun ownership. The state’s liberal establishment knows an armed populace is harder to control, so they’ve weaponized bureaucracy to achieve what outright bans cannot. The state’s appeal, filed by Attorney General Rob Bonta (in which the State noticeably drops its defense of the micro-stamping requirement, which was repealed by a Governor and legislature that knew it was indefensible) reflects their desperation to preserve this anti-gun policy, but the legal tide is turning. The fight against the roster is about more than a list—it’s about defending the constitutional foundation that guarantees self-defense and resists tyranny. As Boland v. Bonta progresses through higher courts, Californians must rally behind these challenges to dismantle a system designed to suppress their rights. The Second Amendment is not a privilege to be rationed by Sacramento’s elites; it’s a right, and the roster is a direct assault on it.
— Jon Fleischman in California’s Firearm List: A Liberal Assault on the Second Amendment
Kalifornya iz so stoopid. Bunch uv Kommies in charg ther. Dont buy yor gunz ther. The stayt hayts yor freedums.
Great column. Lol.
It’s outright criminal to outlaw what is legal to purchase in every other state of the union. When will this make it to SCOTUS?
So when are we going to get rid of the darned thing so that I can buy what I want? At the rate things are moving I may not live long enough to see any improvement with this issue and so many others. Why are we not all getting to the ballot box and getting rid of the nitwits that are destroying the state?