Fucking excellent idea. I can't find fault with those ones either. Of course the best part is the ban on lead bullets as they're poisoning condors, vultures, and birds of prey. That actually makes ecological sense but, of course, the NRA has been as utter, completely, laughably retarded as ever claiming zoos, toxicologists, and even shooting clubs which support the switch away from lead bullets as being part of a secret plot to ban guns. No, really, that's what the raving mad idiots over at the NRA have been saying about the lead bullet ban.
There will be lawsuits aplenty if these make it to the books. The revised semi-auto ban will effectively make all semi-autos "assault weapons," even the Ruger 10-22. That's right; not even rimfires are exempt. On the bright side, such an overreach may make it easier to overturn the entire law. The ruling in Heller explicitly states that guns in common use are protected; the new California laws would ban the guns that have been the biggest selling for decades. As for magazines, guns don't function without them, which should be grounds for a Second Amendment challenge to banning their possession. And, of course, such a ban amounts to a taking without due process. The mood among gunowners in California is one of bemused cynicism, but there is the underlying hope that the radical overreaches will get walked back by the courts.
"When we see movement on the California bills and the sort of tenacity that you had post-Newtown, it makes it really hard for the gun lobby to say the momentum has gone away. And it's certainly something Congress pays attention to," Kristin Rand, legislative director at the Violence Policy Center in Washington, D.C. , told the paper. "You can't underestimate how important it is for Congress to see movement in the states, especially big states like California." Big states like California that have a lot of Liberal nit-wits and hypocritical lefty celebrities. Yes, they blow up half the world in their movies and have armed security teams guarding their property but God forbid some working class Joe take an "assault" weapon out shooting coyotes on his ranch. The anti-gun people can get political traction in a place like California versus spinning their wheels in a place like Georgia.
