16,000 Registered CA Gun Owners Cannot Legally Own Guns

By Patriot Outdoor News

On April 30 SF Gate reported that 16,000 gun owners on California’s registry cannot legally own guns.

They are barred by their criminal record or mental illness, yet they still possess guns after the CA Department of Justice was given $24 million in 2013 with which to take these guns off the streets.

According to SF Gate, the CA DOJ was supposed to use the money to hire “agents to confiscate guns from owners who had lost their rights due to felony convictions, domestic violence actions, mental health conditions or addiction to narcotics, among other things.”

There were 19,784 people illegally in possession on of guns in CA in 2013, that number has only been reduced to 16,396. This means that 1.5 years into the three year effort, the CA DOJ has only “reduced the backlog by only 3,400 people.”

And the job is only getting more difficult with time, because more and more Californians are acquiring guns.

For example, Breitbart News previously reported that handgun sales in California broke records in 2014, with 510,000 guns sold. On April 8 The Washington Times reported that buying at this level has continued in 2015, with 200,000 background checks for handgun purchasers in March alone.

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Via:: Patriot Outdoor News