Firearms Policy Coalition Urges California To Repeal Laws That Charge Gun Owners For Being Charged With A Crime

By Tom Knighton

By now, anyone who is shocked by the anti-gun actions of a California politician either hasn’t been following the anti-Second Amendment politics of the state for very long or has deluded themselves. It’s not pleasant for gun owners in the least.

However, a new law apparently is going to make it even less pleasant going forward and the Firearms Policy Coalition is trying to do something about it.

On the last day of the State of California’s 2017 legislative year, civil rights advocacy organization Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) is once more calling for an immediate repeal of dangerously unconstitutional laws passed by the California Legislature in Assembly Bill 103 (AB 103), an “urgency” public safety omnibus bill that took effect immediately after it was signed into law on June 27.

AB 103 changed California Penal Code sections 29805 to say that even someone who “has an outstanding warrant for” an alleged violation of other codes and who “owns, purchases, receives, or has in possession or under custody or control, any firearm” is guilty of a crime that is “punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year or in the state prison, by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms