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Post by Stan on Jul 2, 2012 17:18:16 GMT -8
Copied from another site... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As many of you may know, in California we employ a ‘bullet button’ on our magazine release in order to keep our rifles legal. New legislation has been proposed to now make these illegal as well. If you have 3 minutes of your day, please help stop SB 249: Stop SB 249 campaign website (http://stopsb249.org) Stop SB 249 Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Stop-…99341346769168) Stop SB 249 Twitter feed twitter.com/stopSB249 Change.org petition www.change.org/petitions/stop-sb-249 StopSB246.org publishes Davis & Associates analysis of SB 249 Actions 1. Send Sen. Yee a letter of opposition: stopsb249.org/tellyee/ 2. Send Assembly Public Safety a letter of opposition: stopsb249.org/send-a-letter/ 3. Sign this petition: www.change.org/petitions/stop-sb-249 4. Print out our info sheets (coming soon) and FAQ – post them at the range, at gun shops, and everywhere you can! 5. Call Sen. Yee’s office (916-651-4008), ask for the SB 249 “Fact Sheet” and “Backgrounder” (make them take the time to explain the bill – often) 6. Help the Stop SB 249 Campaign go viral (share with your networks as fast as you can) 7. Check in at stopsb249.org for the latest updates and alerts 8. Contribute financially at bit.ly/helpstopsb249 |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2012 17:11:51 GMT -8
I just sent him a letter of opposition. Is there any place that boils this issue down to a quick and dirty summary?
a) What exactly would the bill ban?
b) What timeline are we working with?
c) What are our chances of success? i.e. would a vote strictly follow party lines?
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Post by mqd123 on Jul 15, 2012 19:24:30 GMT -8
IMHO, legislation will keep coming so long as the legislatures remain anti-2nd Amendment. Our only hope really is challenging the laws in court. Laws get passed all the time, they aren't always lawful per the Constitution. So, our game plan should be two folds: 1. Elect better law makers; 2. Hire some really good attorneys and challenge every law as far up the food chain as we can. Stop this and that actions are equivalent to Operation Speed Bump. I could be completely wrong  |
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Post by Stan on Jul 15, 2012 19:59:10 GMT -8
If you two lawyers can't figure this out the rest of us are in trouble!
I'm going to be totally honest and say that someone or people on Calguns.net may have a better idea of what exactly this covers but I understand in general that they are simply trying to negate the bullet button work-around and whatever other solutions thereafter.
Remember that the people who write these bills know little to nothing about firearms.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2012 20:13:41 GMT -8
For starters, Calguns wants us to read a "mega-thread". Also the people on CG said not to divulge too much on the forum so that we don't give the anti-gunners help with making their bill more precise.
Secondly, from what I've seen of the bill itself it would "prohibit any person from importing, making, selling, loaning, transferring, or possessing any conversion kit, as defined, designed solely and exclusively to convert certain firearms with a fixed magazine into firearms with the capacity to accept a detachable magazine and other features making the firearm an assault weapon and would make violations subject to criminal penalties. By creating new crimes, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program."
It's unclear to me from reading it exactly what it prohibits. I'm sure there will be a lot of heated argument pro & con re. what precisely is prohibited by this bill.
It is true that these politicians probably don't know much about firearms, but they do have allies in law enforcement who can help them.
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Post by mqd123 on Jul 15, 2012 20:19:58 GMT -8
For starters, Calguns wants us to read a "mega-thread". Also the people on CG said not to divulge too much on the forum so that we don't give the anti-gunners help with making their bill more precise. Secondly, from what I've seen of the bill itself it would "prohibit any person from importing, making, selling, loaning, transferring, or possessing any conversion kit, as defined, designed solely and exclusively to convert certain firearms with a fixed magazine into firearms with the capacity to accept a detachable magazine and other features making the firearm an assault weapon and would make violations subject to criminal penalties. By creating new crimes, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program." It's unclear to me from reading it exactly what it prohibits. I'm sure there will be a lot of heated argument pro & con re. what precisely is prohibited by this bill. It is true that these politicians probably don't know much about firearms, but they do have allies in law enforcement who can help them. And there you have it, it's completely vague and unenforceable. I've read it and I just said WTF??? Why tip them off now that the law is poorly written? Let them pass it. Then we sue for an injunction to keep it from being enforced. We need the courts to tell them that it's vague a couple years from now while we go on with my plan: We need to elect new people and to challenge them once the laws are passed. Whoever is representing our gun rights need to ID the lawmakers we need to elect and to pay for Constitutional law attorneys to fight it out with these f-ers. |
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