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  Mike Haas  wrote:
> NRA MEMBER INFORMATION                                        7/23/00
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>        Stop Jack Scott's Handgun Registration & Licensing Bill!
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>   Assemblyman Jack Scott from Pasadena has introduced AB 273 that
>   would create a state-run handgun licensing/registration program
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>   Learn about the truly onerous provisions of this bill.  Here's
>   just one example: IF AB 273 PASSES, YOU WOULD BE REQUIRED TO
>   PERIODICALLY PASS STATE-DESIGNED SHOOTING PROFICIENCY TESTS (Cost
>   yet to be determined).  Guess what happens if you don't pass?
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>   More details, as well as contact info for those legislators
>   to contact to stop this atrocity, available at...

Unless there have been changes in the last couple of weeks this bill
will infringe upon gun owners in a number of ways...

To get a "license" under this bill you would have to apply to local law
enforcement.  There are fees involved.  A fee charged by the state and
one allowed to be charged by local official to cover costs of the
application.  There are limts to the charges.

You have to pass a written test and hands-on test at an "approved"
facility.  How much you wanna bet that the handfull of approved sites
will be conveniently located in places like Susanville and Bishop?

The license application requires you to provide a list of all handguns
you have by make, model, and serial number.  Gun registration.

The license will be valid for no longer than 5 years.  Expiration is
tied the expiration of your California driver license.  I guess if
driver license expires your brain goes to hell so you can't drive or
have a gun.  Renewal requires you to apply THIRTY days in advance, and
you must submit another inventory of handguns.  Now it's recurring gun
registration.

Changes of address must be reported immediately.  Like your a sex
offender or something.  Another "gotcha" in the system - forget to tell
them you have moved, and you're a criminal.

The DOJ is required to maintain a database of all information they
collect under the licensing program.

If you want to avoid the system, you'll have to stop trading/buying
handguns.  The way I read it, it is not retroactive for existing
handgun owners - however, once in effect, a license will be required to
buy, sell, trade, loan, etc any handgun.

IF this bill makes it out of the Senate (it has alreay be through the
Assembly - that's where it came from) there should be a major campaign
on the Governor.  Davis said he didn't want ANYMORE gun control
legislation sent to him until they know what effect all of the other
draconian gun laws recently passed are having.  It should be quite
reasonable to ask and expect Davis to veto it.

This bill is not going to reduce violent crime a bit.  All it does is
set numerous traps that are INTENDED to turn law abiding people into
criminals.


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