California's New CC Ruling

[Jeff Higgins]

I agree God never said I could own a gun. But I don't believe he ever said I couldn't own one either. I will use Ct. as a example of how a wedge was driven between the self defense type of gun owner and the Hunter/ collector types. The Hunter/ collector types did not stand shoulder to shoulder with the self defense types. You would hear them make comments about ugly Assault rifles. How they would not own such a thing, you don't need one for hunting or you don't need a mag that holds more than X amount for Hunting. Basically looking down their noses at those types of firearms and those type of firearm owners. It did not affect their firearm hobby so they did not care. So laws were passed. Well guess what. I lost count of how many guys walked into the store to buy a new shotgun to hunt or shoot clays with and were shocked to find out they can't without a permit. What do you mean I can't buy one anymore with my hunting license or a two week wait? I thought that was just for those ugly assault rifles! Or the guys who came in the Friday before opening day to pick up ammo to find out they can't buy it without a permit. My favorite was the 30 year retired FBI agent that could not buy ammo because he did not have a permit. I really felt bad for the guys that lost out on firearms for Christmas or birthday presents because their wives or relatives had no way to purchase them. I remember another guy that has a really extensive Browning Hi-Power collection, he wasn't to happy about 10 round mags only. I don't fish much anymore but I will defend your right to do so because my kids and grandkids like to.