CA: SB489 will be heard tomorrow!

[redhead]

I don't email - too easy to ignore. I fax these critters from my computer. That way, they have a piece of paper they HAVE to handle. Of course, they never respond to my letters. But at least they know that not everyone agrees with their tyrannical agenda.

 

[twoblink]

Bump.

This is rediculous.. People, FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!!

Even if you want to move, you still have to fight. Let not the PRK set an example for the rest of America to follow!!

Look at the Californians that have spewed over to AZ! The gov'ner isn't even pro RKBA! So it's not just a PRK problem, it's an AMERICAN problem.

Make a lot of noise, then you will be heard..

 

[SIGarmed]

I may be preaching to the choir, but if there is a Californian who hasn't contacted their representative please get active with SB 489 and any other anti-gun bill.
This bill is actually a gun ban in disguise. Most pistols don't have chamber load indicators, and the handguns legal for sale in California are only a fraction of what can be sold in free America. This puts the finishing touch on handgun restriction in California come 2005-6 until gun makers feel like adding chamber load indicators to their pistol lineup for California. The liberals will approve it because they're thinking that gunowners may feel less threatened because it doesn't go ito effect for a couple of years. If they tried to pass this overnight why do I feel that we'd get an overwhelming repsonse from gunowners?

These devices are useless and the liberals know it. This is another end run around the Bill of Rights.
This is another added expense for doing business in California for gun makers. Come 2006 how many manufacturers will stay with California?

 

[redhead]

I concur. Get Involved! Make some noise!

I was telling my husband about this bill, to try to get him to write his own letter and make his own phone call. His reaction: "Well, we'd better buy what we want now!"

My reply was a tad bit sharp. "Honey, that's not the point. You and your gun owning friends can't just 'buy what you want now', and then just sit back and say, 'I've got mine'. Do you think that this bill will be the end of it? do you think they'll stop with this one? And what of others - Californians coming of age, and can't buy a handgun. Do you want a generation of diarmed Californians? This bill hasn't passed yet. We need to stop it NOW!". Well, he hasn't written or called yet, but I'm working on that. Nothing like a nagging wife, huh?

 

[Drjones]

Bump.

I called everyone the other day!!!

You can too!!!!

 

[Telperion]

Here's a letter I drafted up. It's longer than I would like and not wholly polished, but I'm mad and there's not much time left. Feel free to adapt, amend, plaigarize for the cause:

To Mr. Mullin,

I am a constituent in the 19th Assembly District, and I am writing you concerning SB489, a bill that would require loaded-chamber indicators and magazine disconnect devices on all handguns sold in California. If enacted, this bill will lead to a de facto handgun ban in California, and I strongly urge you vote NO when this bill comes before the Assembly.

Too often one hears of children killed in incidents involving "unloaded" guns. These situations are completely avoidable, but SB489 will not prevent them. Children and others, who do not know they should check the chamber of a handgun, will be inclined to ignore any chamber-loaded indicator out of the same inexperience. Magazine disconnects only function if the magazine has been removed. Both of these features introduce mechanical complexities into weapons that must function reliably in self-defense situations.

SB489 will essentially ban handguns in California because very few firearms are manufactured to satisfy the conditions in the bill. Consumers (both law enforcement and private citizens) overwhelmingly do not want guns with extraneous features that reduce their reliability. The best solution for tragic accidents is firearms education, not government-mandated limits on consumer choice.

Please reply and let me know your position on this very important matter.

Sincerely,

me