Yeah, it gets bad. While I lived there I witnessed the push for people to take the rifles out of the racks in the backs of their cars. And trucks.
Coloradoans drive around with survival kits. And not just walmart pre-packaged shit and a package of lunchables. No.. They have cans of exposed gasoline, bear traps, bivvys and yes - Rifles. It's standard issue in the mountains.
Well, the californian assholes were scared by the visual assaults of rifles and shotguns in the back windows of cars. So they were pushing to get drivers to disarm.
Fucking twits don't get it.
California is a liberals paradise. I will enjoy watching this state drown in it's own shit (from the relative saftey of my soon-to-be new home somewhere on the East Coast).
Example: I was in the market for a new shotgun. Acutally, my first shotgun. I am going dove hunting pretty soon.
There are only 2 stores that sell guns, much less rifles. Turners Outdoors and Big5. Turners Outdoors basically bends you over at the counter with their prices. Big5 has a small selection.
I went to Turner's and bought a Mossburg for ~$400. I waited the 10 days to pick it up. I went to the store to pick up my shotgun, and at the same time picked up a box of shotgun shells. Mind you, the shotgun was disassembled, in a closed box, with trigger guard in place.
The clerk would NOT let me walk out of the store with shotgun shells (in box) in one hand and the box that my shotgun came in with in the other. I had to leave the shotgun at the counter, walk to my car, put the shotgun shells in the glove compartment, then walk back into the store to grab the gun.
Not only that, but California has this stupid fucking law where you HAVE to have a trigger guard on your gun/rifle, in order to legally transport it from your house to wherever you are going.
Don't know what I will do when the homie-g's next to me in the lowered cadillac pull their mac10 on me in order to rob me, and i got to:
1. pop my trunk
2. fumble for the key to unlock the trigger guard
3. run back to the glove compartment to grab the shotgun shells
4. load.
5. fire.
FUCK california.