08-18-2013, 8:45 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by socalblue
PC 32000(b)(4)
(4) The sale or purchase of any pistol, revolver, or other firearm capable of being concealed upon the person, if the pistol, revolver, or other firearm is sold to, or purchased by, the Department of Justice, any police department, any sheriff's official, any marshal's office, the Youth and Adult Correctional Agency, the California Highway Patrol, any district attorney's office, or the military or naval forces of this state or of the United States for use in the discharge of their official duties. Nor shall anything in this section prohibit the sale to, or purchase by, sworn members of these agencies of any pistol, revolver, or other firearm capable of being concealed upon the person.
PC 32000(b)(4) pertains to agencies, not individuals. Authorized agencies are allowed to purchase & issue pretty much anything they wish. Not so with individual members of said agencies.
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If you look at what the actual PC states, there are two sections, the first authorizes agencies to buy off roster guns for official duties, the second section in bold pertains to individual members of agencies, hence the phrase "sworn members of these agencies" that is why state/local leos can buy off roster guns. If you believe that it only pertains to agencies, can you cite the PC that allows for individual sales of off roster guns?
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Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.
--Cesare, Marquis of Beccaria, "On Crimes and Punishment"
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