More Firearm Foolisness from Kalifornia

Calguns.net is a website devoted towards helping Californians understand their state’s complicated (translation: stupid) firearm laws.  Being a California resident, a firearm owner, and a member of this website I recieved news of a lawsuit filed in California court asking for the roster of California “approved” handguns to be abolished.  I have written of this stupid list before.  You may read the summary of the lawsuit here and the full complaint here.

I thought I would share some interesting portions of this summary (bolding by me):

Attorney Alan Gura, representing the plaintiffs in this case, noted that California “tells Ivan Peña that his rights have an expiration date based on payment of a government fee. Americans are not limited to a government list of approved books, or approved religions,” he said. “A handgun protected by the Second Amendment does not need to appear on any government-approved list and cannot be banned because a manufacturer does not pay a special annual fee.”

“The Para Ordnance P-13 was once approved for sale in California,” Peña noted, “but now that a manufacturer didn’t pay a yearly fee, California claims the gun I want to own has somehow become ‘unsafe’.”

“The Glock-21 is the handgun I would choose for home defense, but California has decided the version I need is unacceptable. I was born without a right arm below my elbow and therefore the new ambidextrous version of the Glock-21 is the safest one for me. The identical model designed for right hand use is available in California, but I can’t use it,” said plaintiff Roy Vargas.

Joining plaintiffs Peña and Vargas are Doña Croston and Brett Thomas. Doña Croston’s handgun would be allowed if it were black, green, or brown, but her bi-tone version is supposedly ‘unsafe’ merely based on color. “I didn’t realize that my constitutional rights depended on color. What is it about two colors that makes the gun I want to purchase ‘unsafe’?”

In my earlier article I noted how the handgun which carried the United States through all types of wars from WWI to Vietnam (Colt 1911) would be ruled unsafe were it tested in its orignal configuration and how the pistol used by the Swiss Special Forces, which costs over $3,000.00 is also illegal to own in California.

I hope this lawsuit prevails in court.  It’s about time stupid, arbitrary laws are thrown out and people’s freedom’s are not infringed.

On a personal note, I bought a Walther P1 (for a picture click here) and even though this pistol was carried by virtually every Germany police and military organization until the early 1990s, Kalifornia would not let me own one unless I could find a model imported by PW Arms.  This is sheer stupidity.  It has to stop.

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