Many shooters in other states tend to blindly overlook the fact that, even as the minority in our home state of California, we still comprise a dedicated group which vastly dwarfs that of most any other state.
There is also no lack of well-educated and highly capable minds here to scrutinize our restrictive gun laws. Because of all those efforts, there are COMPLETELY LEGAL ways for us to enjoy most all the same benefits that people in other states take for granted.
Thanks for posting this great thread, Shooting4life. You do us all a great service by bringing this up, and I would suggest that this information might even be used as a sticky somewhere on this website, so that our brothers in other states can educate themselves on such matters.