CA Looking To Crack Down On Semi-Auto Rifles, Gun Storage Rules

By Tom Knighton

I keep finding myself wondering if California will ever hit a point where they’ll decide they’ve done enough on gun control. The Supreme Court has made it so a total gun ban just isn’t going to happen in the state, so we know that can’t serve as the point they stop, so I’m wondering if they’ll ever hit another such point.

It seems the state has decided that not only should they restrict what kind of semiautomatic rifles you can buy there, but also dictate just how many you can buy per month.

Californians would be barred from buying more than one semiautomatic rifle a month and those weapons would be off-limits to people younger than 21 under a bill set for a final vote in the Legislature this week.

The restrictions are being sought by state Sen. Anthony Portantino (D-La CañadaFlintridge), who noted that such weapons have been used in mass shootings, including an April attack on the Chabad of Poway by a 19-year-old man who killed one person and injured three others.

Portantino’s bill originally would have limited purchases of all long guns to one every 30 days, but he decided to exclude shotguns and some …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms