Move to limit gun raffles by non-profits in California draws backlash

By Chris Eger

The California Waterfowl Association, who hold 100 such gun raffles at their local events annually across the state, garners as much as 80 percent of their fundraising proceeds through the practice. (Photo: CWA)
An Assembly bill sparked over a firefighter association’s raffle of an AR-15 has resulted in mobilizing a diverse field of opponents.
Assemblyman Chris Holden, D-Pasadena, earlier this year gutted and amended AB 3199, originally a CalWorks measure, to curb the use of raffle events with firearms as prizes. In its current form, the measure would restrict the practice to non-profits and limit them to just three firearms per year.
“I’m not quite sure why someone would want to raffle off an AR-15, but this would at least create a reasonable set of standards of how that would be done, and (ensure) it’s in compliance with the law,” Holden told the Sacramento Bee.
Holden originally structured his proposal to ban gun raffles outright, then modified it to a three-per-year cap. The need for the legislation, Holden said, came from a controversial charity event to benefit Explorer and Residents programs for Cal Fire. With the firefighters association raffling an AR-15 in the days immediately after the high-profile school shooting in Parkland, Florida, some

Source: Guns.com