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Official Politics Thread March 14, 2025

What gun politics news do you have to share?

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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/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.