Looks like California gun owners are following Connecticut residents’ lead: simply do not comply with gun laws.
At midnight on Thursday, Sunnyvale, CA began imposing a new law that requires residents with rifle magazines that holds more than 10 rounds of ammunition to dispose of them. But not a single resident has turned in their magazines.
San Francisco residents are also under the same new laws and must surrender their high-capacity magazines to police by April 7.
To defeat tyranny you don’t need and army, you only need non-compliance from its citizens.
SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Enforcement issues surround two Northern California cities’ bans on high-capacity magazines.
The Oakland Tribune (http://tinyurl.com/lvtufr3 ) reported Saturday that since Sunnyvale’s ban went into effect midnight Thursday, not one of the now-illegal magazines has been turned in. San Francisco police report that they have no system to track whether any magazines have been turned in for destruction under the new ordinance. San Francisco residents must surrender their high-capacity magazines to police by April 7.
The two California cities enacted laws similar to several other municipalities banning magazines that hold more 10 bullets in reaction to the 2012 mass-shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
The National Rifle Association has filed legal challenges to the bans in Sunnyvale, San Francisco and elsewhere. Judges have so far upheld the bans.
California law has banned the sale of high-capacity magazines since 2000, but it allows owners who possessed the items before 2000 to keep them. Sunnyvale, San Francisco and other cities have gone a step further and made possession of the high-capacity magazines a misdemeanor crime.
High-capacity magazine owners in Sunnyvale can allow the police to destroy the magazines, sell them out of state or to a licensed gun dealer or move them out of town.
Leonard Fyock, a Sunnyvale resident who served as a plaintiff in the NRA-backed lawsuit seeking to halt the city’s ban from going into effect, said he moved his high-capacity magazines out of town even though the legal setback is being appealed.
“I just thought, ‘Well, this doesn’t look good,’ ” he told the Oakland Tribune. “So my high-capacity magazines are already out of town.”
It’s not too late for owners to turn over the high-capacity gun magazines to police, Sunnyvale spokeswoman Jennifer Garnett said.
“Barring any unusual circumstances, we wouldn’t cite people for voluntarily turning in their large-capacity magazines to public safety even though it is legally possible at this time to cite them,” Garnett said.
It is almost too good to believe that California is getting smart.
Just saying though, what do you need more than 10 rounds for? The founding fathers had one shot per gun and it took at best, a minute to reload. You have the right to have a gun so why do you need more than 10 rounds? What could you possibly be shooting that requires more than two or three shots to put down? And when I say “need” I mean and actual need. NOT a want. There’s a difference. I’m not asking about POSSIBLE scenarios but factual things in your day of having a gun that requires more than ten shots and why you’re too lazy to reload.
people of California, wake up!!! you will need more than ten rounds of ammo whan the Goverment wants to come in your home and take it. they come to my house they get the bullets first, cause I would consider this war.
About darn time they stop being made easy targets for the criminals , the politictions aren’t going to give up their securities large capacity magazines !
The reason is because your not always going to be able to count on faceing one or two criminals so hence forth why you need or require a ten round or more magazines . Why do you think the law enforcement community carries four magazines on their belt and one in their sidearm ? Because its proven NOT everything ends quickly and you have no idea when help will get to you Nathan .
you guys line up now and turn in those large capacity mags NOT!!
If THE PEOPLE were the government….
Nathan Mooboy Feldman: Whether or not anybody NEEDS a high-capacity magazine is completely irrelevant. It’s none of the government’s business. (Nor yours, for that matter.)
If the dunderheads in The CA legislature could think past their petty bitches and stupid laws they would realize the 10 round limit magazines, all the gun owner needs do is buy more magazines. For the Revolver owners…speed loaders.
the 2nd amendment also is inplace to protect ourselfs against our own goverment not just terrist threats.