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Originally Posted by RickRyder
AB 809 - Long Gun Registration Law 2014
AB 809 will require the registration of any newly purchased long guns, starting in 2014. Critics of this new gun law say it violates Second Amendment rights by forcing state registration of rifles and shotguns, and that the only value of long gun registration is in assisting governments to locate and confiscate firearms in the future. Law effective January, 1 2014.
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canada, which has roughly the same population as CA, had a long gun registry that they just recently scrapped. they had it for about 10 years IIRC. in the end the gov't decided it was too inefficient and moreover expensive to maintain. bear in mind, however, that their registry was
supposed to be retroactive. there were a lot of *cough* canoe accidents *cough* right around the time they enacted it.
hopefully CA will take a chapter from canada's book, but the hubris of our legislators will likely not allow that