Posted December 8, 2015 1:50 pm by Comments

By Fred Lucas

People look at handguns as thousands of customers and hundreds of dealers sell, show, and buy guns and other items during The Nation's Gun Show at the Dulles Expo Center which is the first major gun show in the area since the Oregon shooting in Chantilly, VA on Saturday, October 03, 2015. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

President Barack Obama’s gun proposal — primarily stricter background checks and banning semi-automatic firearms — would have no impact on California, which already has such laws, and those laws didn’t prevent the San Bernardino terrorist attack, a gun rights activist in the state said.

“He is a lame-duck president with a Congress which isn’t going to pass any of his gun control proposals,” California Right to Carry President Charles Nichols said of Obama. “Any executive order he might issue will be like those issued after Newtown, toothless and subject to judicial review.”

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On top of the federal push, California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, is pushing for a ballot initiative in 2016 that would require additional background checks for ammunition purchases and require gun owners to surrender large-capacity magazines that hold more than 10 rounds.

“There is no federal, state or local law that can prevent these shootings,” Nichols told TheBlaze. “One need only look at France, which has far stricter gun laws than does California, for proof.”

During his Sunday prime-time address, Obama called on Congress to ban anyone on the no-fly list from buying a gun. Such a law would be …Read the Rest

Source:: The Blaze

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