California
NRA-ILA | California: Committee Considering Banning Body Armor & Increasing Firearm Marking Violation Penalties
On Tuesday, February 28th, the Meeting Committee on Public Security will hear Meeting Payments 92 and 301, to ban physique armor, and Meeting Invoice 97, to impose extreme penalties for violating California’s regulation concerning firearm markings. Please contact committee members and urge them to OPPOSE AB 92, AB 301, and AB 97.
Meeting Invoice 92 and Meeting Invoice 301 ban residents from delivering or taking possession of physique armor, with exceptions for these in “eligible professions.” Current federal and California state legal guidelines already prohibit violent felons from possessing physique armor, with restricted exceptions for employment. Regulation-abiding residents personal physique armor for a similar official functions as skilled customers: to guard themselves from violent criminals and for elevated security throughout varied types of firearm coaching. Entry to physique armor, which is freely obtainable from all around the world resulting from advances in supplies science, is important for People to train their Second Modification proper to self-defense. Bans solely depart law-abiding residents defenseless to criminals, who by definition, ignore the regulation.
Meeting Invoice 97 will increase penalties for violating California’s regulation on serializing home-built firearms and shopping for, disposing, possessing, and so forth., any firearm with the producer identify, mannequin designation, or serial quantity altered or obliterated, from misdemeanors to felonies. The prevailing California regulation already goes above and past federal regulation in regulating markings on firearms. These penalties are for mere possession, which might trigger in any other case law-abiding residents, with none felony intent, to completely lose their Second Modification rights.
Once more, contact committee members and urge them to OPPOSE AB 92, AB 301, and AB 97.
