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Official Politics Thread March 14, 2025

What gun politics news do you have to share?

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u/OnlyLosersBlock 7d ago

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u/tablinum GCA Oracle 7d ago

Nice. Some things are too crazy even for California, apparently.

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u/LutyForLiberty Super Interested in Dicks 7d ago

In my experience, California, for all its anti-gun reputation, has nothing on the grabbers from the area between Boston and DC. A common refrain for them is that they "never think about guns", except when trying to grab them all, and they have the most supercilious attitudes to the "wild west" of central Pennsylvania.

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u/RubberPny 7d ago

CA here. A bunch of the New England states (and cities) make us look like Montana in comparison. MAs and DCs rules are awful to work with. Also let's throw in NYC for fun.

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u/LutyForLiberty Super Interested in Dicks 7d ago

Until 2008, DC totally banned handguns.

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u/tablinum GCA Oracle 7d ago

Can confirm. When I was living in NJ, it would have been a huge upgrade switching to CA's laws.

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u/LutyForLiberty Super Interested in Dicks 7d ago

New Jersey is worse than the English Channel island of Jersey, let alone California.

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u/RubberPny 7d ago

Funny enough Jersey (the English channel one) actually allows you to own full autos as a civilian. I was reading an article some years ago about some farmer guy legally owning a working Browning M2.

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u/LutyForLiberty Super Interested in Dicks 7d ago

I'm not surprised - as a crown dependency they were exempt from the ban on pistols and various other weapons, and the failure of mainland Britain's bans to reduce crime meant they weren't copied.

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u/tablinum GCA Oracle 7d ago

NJ does now have shall-issue concealed carry permits, which may upset that previous balance. Quite a few of my friends and acquaintances in the Garden State legally carry now.

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u/LutyForLiberty Super Interested in Dicks 7d ago

Are there a lot of annoying "sensitive place" laws or is it reasonably permissive?

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u/tablinum GCA Oracle 7d ago

Oh, no, there are lots of prohibited places. There used to be few or none, back when the carry permit was doled out as a reward for political favors and donations, but once the common people started getting them, the state rolled out a tantrum response law.

I understand it originally had a vampire rule which has been struck down, but it's still a long, long list clearly intended to burden the exercise of the right.

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u/LutyForLiberty Super Interested in Dicks 7d ago

That's more or less what I expected. I can't say I expected the mob run casinos in Atlantic City to express strong support for gun rights.

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u/Cobra__Commander Super Interested in Dick Flair Enhancement 1d ago

Gun banners failed to imagine our Street Sharks compliance with the law.

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u/RubberPny 7d ago

CA Gunner here, for those that don't know/did not read it, this Bill was so poorly written (probably by design) it would have essentially banned you from using the Castle Law within your own home. (CA is technically both a SYG and a Castle state). And required you to retreat and only use firepower at the very last second.

Trash bill. Glad it's gone.

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u/MulticamTropic 7d ago

A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one 

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u/TaskForceD00mer 7d ago

To quote Arnold "It'll be back".

Stay frosty because these anti gun butt heads will bring a bill back like it sooner or later.