Gov. Jerry Brown announced early Monday that he had outlawed the open carrying of handguns in public in California, a controversial practice that top law enforcement officials had denounced as dangerous.Bad move, Jerry, you gutless weasel.
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"I listened to the California police chiefs," Brown said in a statement.
Police chiefs are the wrong people to listen to on almost any subject that I can think of. Police chiefs, especially large city chiefs, are about as solid an anti-freedom, anti-liberty and pro-statist group that exists.
Police chiefs have fought every concealed-carry bill that I know of. Police chiefs would happily see a law passed that would nullify the Fourth Amendment.
I thought Reagan did that when he was Governor because the Black Panthers carried weapons openly.
ReplyDeleteThe Government will continue to pass legislation concerning weapons that convince the sheep that IT is under control.
ReplyDeleteI have a "legal" assault rifle in Ca. that has no specific provision for change of address. How loose can gun laws really BE! Retards!
My assault rifle with folded stock can easily be concealed behind a medium length coat. If I had the sear pin required , there could be 30 or 40 rounds of high performance firepower at full auto. And they worry about open carry!!!
Crap! if I was a criminal type I could be sooo much worse that to carry a weapopn openly.
Just like worrying about Pot in a Depression, distract the Rubes at all cost.
a seasoned w3ski
Merlallen, I think that was for openly carrying rifles and shotguns. Both Republican and Democratic politicians have an interest in keeping weapons out of the hands of "those people", all that differs is who "those people" happen to be.
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised he didn't make it illegal just for "those people"
ReplyDeleteBrown must have listened to the police chiefs again....right before vetoing a bill that demanded search warrants for cops to search your cellphone if you are arrested.
ReplyDeleteBut noooo....Brown vetoed it. Now, your phone is as seachable as your body before they toss you in the clink.
I don't understand weapon laws in this country. I can open carry a loaded handgun in Virginia, but my automatic knife is not only illegal to possess but also automatically qualifies me for an "intent to sell" charge. It just makes my brain hurt.
ReplyDeleteThe California law was busted to begin with -- you could carry a weapon openly, but only if it was unloaded. WTF use is that?! All that the California law did was confuse both cops and non-gun-owners, since they couldn't know whether a gun was loaded or not (i.e., illegal or not) without stopping the person and checking the gun. It was taking up time and trouble for the cops who had no way of knowing without doing a stop whether a particular weapon was legal to carry or not, time and trouble they could spend doing more productive things. Either make open carry legal or illegal, but doing it halfway (you can open carry but only if unloaded?) simply wasn't workable.
ReplyDeleteSo anyhow, the Lege wasn't passing an open carry law saying open carry while loaded was legal, so this is what they put on Jerry's desk. Not an ideal solution to the fact that the California law regarding open carry was broken, but a solution (shrug).
- Badtux the California Penguin