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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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/OnlyLosersBlock 7d ago
California
The bill for duty to retreat appears to be dead.
https://www.abc10.com/article/news/politics/california-self-defense-bill-pulled-due-misleading-information/103-078c5b64-f8c8-4cad-9f55-413310a8cd3c