SoCalDep
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Yup...But I'm a ways from you.
California Bullet Button
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Yup...But I'm a ways from you.
Capt_Destro
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I moved to Norther California, Tahoe area, a few years ago. I had to outfit my rifles with the "bullet button" while I was there. Removed it as soon as I got back to my home in Missouri.
I see that CARB was mentioned, so I will tell a quick tale. I was mowing the grass at the rental while in California and a neighbor drove by and introduced himself. While he was there he noticed my gas can and started flipping out about it not meeting CARB standards and I could be fined if anyone other than him might have seen it. After almost dieing laughing I realized that he was serious. He advised me to take disassemble the gas can and only use it while out of state, TRUE story! Got on the Internet and found out he was right! They say that the gas cans have to meet LOW emissions standards.
I brought it up at my weekly VFW meeting and was told by a LEO member that the fine was......... Get this....... Cough, cough......$750but if it was him he normally just gives warning for the first time!
I was wondering why the heck my lawn mower said "Not for sale in California"
Rastoff
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Yeah, Kern's a big place. Always nice to meet another sensible person in CA.
I'm not a fan of running away from a problem. I'd rather dig in my heels and fix it. Unfortunately, I believe the laws in CA are getting out of hand and there are too few of us willing to get out and do something about it. There comes a time when you've got your finger plugging the hole in the dike and you look up to realize that the water is flowing over the top.
It's a real shame. California has some of the most beautiful countryside anywhere in the world. Alas, the "do gooders" are idiots and don't realize how they're destroying what they want to preserve.
SoCalDep
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Yep... I totally agree. The dam is getting ready to brake. When I saw the most recent set of proposed legislation my wife and I immediately started looking for places to work out of state, but with my wife's medical issues and the massive pay cut just about anywhere else in the country, we're stuck until retirement in a minimum of about twelve years.
Hopefully I can be part of a solution in that time...Otherwise I'm gone.
Hopefully I can be part of a solution in that time...Otherwise I'm gone.
bikendan
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couldn't agree more and what you've said, i've said almost the exact thing many times.
as a native Californian born in the early 50's, it is not the state i grew up in. it still is a unbelievably beautiful place with a staggering amount of variety. where else can you surf in the morning and snowboard in the afternoon?
but i'm retiring next year and moving to Washington. they have some of the same issues about liberal gov't but not to the degree of California. and the gun laws are way more logical and normal.
UncaGrunny
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In actuality, the confusing, twisted, illogical gun regs here in the PRK make perfect sense - - once you factor in that the actual goals of the people writing them are not the goals they openly state (public safety, etc).
Viewed from the perspectives of 1) neutering the ability of law-abiding citizens to protect themselves, and instead forcing them to become dependent upon the State for "protection" from criminals, and 2) lowering the risk of an outraged citizen being able to inflict any harm on agents of the State, while 3) threading the needle of avoiding being overturned in federal court or voted out of office by exceeding Constitutional limits, every single one of their arcane legal formulations advances these goals.
It's a combination of a classic mob-style "Protection" racket with the frog-boiling strategy of Alinskyite incremental introduction of societal changes that would not be tolerated if done all at once.
Or so it seems to me.
