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Eugene

(62,656 posts)
Wed Jun 1, 2016, 09:34 PM Jun 2016

California Assembly passes gun control bills

Source: Reuters

World | Wed Jun 1, 2016 10:21pm EDT

California Assembly passes gun control bills

SACRAMENTO, CALIF. | BY SHARON BERNSTEIN

The California Assembly on Wednesday passed a package of gun control bills, including a measure to ban so-called bullet buttons which allow quick changes in the magazine of a military-style weapon.

The bills, which lawmakers are pushing the Senate to consider this month, are among several gun control measures that leaders of both houses want to pass in advance of a gun control referendum headed for the November ballot.

The measures include a ban on so-called bullet buttons which supporters say allow gun manufacturers to bypass the state's prohibition on removable ammunition magazines. Weapons owned by the shooters in December's San Bernardino massacre were equipped with bullet buttons.

The bill passed on the same day that the University of California, Los Angeles campus was shut down in the wake of a murder-suicide shooting.

Also passed was a bill to allow employers, co-workers, mental health workers and school employees to ask a judge to ban someone from possessing a gun for up to a year. The state already allows family members to seek such a ban, known as a gun violence restraining order, against relatives whom a judge rules are at high risk of committing violence against themselves or others with a firearm.

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California Assembly passes gun control bills (Original Post) Eugene Jun 2016 OP
And not a single one of those laws would prevent what happened on a Press Virginia Jun 2016 #1
Good mwrguy Jun 2016 #2
Not good at all. appal_jack Jun 2016 #4
I guess those controllers that know how weapons function Duckhunter935 Jun 2016 #3
I am particularly enraged that an unmachined blank lower is a WMD Big_Mike Jun 2016 #5
 

Press Virginia

(2,329 posts)
1. And not a single one of those laws would prevent what happened on a
Wed Jun 1, 2016, 10:03 PM
Jun 2016

gun free campus, in a state that has universal background checks, today

 

appal_jack

(3,813 posts)
4. Not good at all.
Wed Jun 1, 2016, 11:17 PM
Jun 2016

Further unconstitutional infringements that help to drive voters away from the Democratic Party.

Not good.

-app

 

Duckhunter935

(16,974 posts)
3. I guess those controllers that know how weapons function
Wed Jun 1, 2016, 11:05 PM
Jun 2016

will admit there error with the bullet button and maybe ask some firearms experts for advice on what might work?

Big_Mike

(509 posts)
5. I am particularly enraged that an unmachined blank lower is a WMD
Thu Jun 2, 2016, 03:53 AM
Jun 2016

The fact that they are imbeciles makes me feel a little better that they are passing such stupid dreck.

However, who voted the imbeciles into office? Lord, I'd almost move just to run against an obvious idiot. Does his or her body person keep a drool rag handy?

This state functioned a little better when we had folks with actual intelligence in office. Willie Brown, where are your descendants? Lord above, this is the ultimate results of term limits and perhaps even top two voting. Whatever happened to the Moscones? We need folks like them back. Forget ever getting another Milk into government office.

But these mental midgets offend me greatly, particularly folks like DeLeon and Yu.

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