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Posts Tagged california
Police Obtaining Military Armored Vehicles
Guns.com reports that Orange County SWAT has received a new armored vehicle from Lenco. They say that it can stop .50 caliber rounds and countless hits from smaller rounds. My only question is, why does Orange County need such a heavily armored car when California has banned .50 caliber rifles and no one in the state is allowed to purchase a magazine for a rifle that holds more than ten rounds? If .50 caliber rifles have been banned the police shouldn’t need protection from them, right? Or maybe it is the case that laws don’t solve problems, they just create more of them.
California Wants to Ban Unloaded Rifles
From Guns.com:
Once Assemblyman Anthony Portantino D-La Canada Flintridge realized that there’s no way to tell if a person’s gun is actually unloaded, he modeled this new bill to place an outright ban on all rifles in public. There is already a similar ban on handguns in the state of California.
More on the bill here.
Ammo Ban Overturned in California
From The Volokh Conspiracy:
The lawsuit alleged that, “It is practically impossible, both for those subject to the law and for those who must enforce it, to determine whether any of the thousands of different types of ammunition cartridges that can be used in handguns are actually ‘principally for use in’ or used more often in, a handgun. The proportional usage of any given cartridge is impossible to determine, and in any event changes with market demands.â€
California Ammo Law Ruled Unconstitutional
From DailyNews.com:
FRESNO — A judge has ruled that key sections of a California law restricting the sale of handgun ammunition cannot be enforced because they are unconstitutional.
Once again California is on the wrong side of self defense and the second amendment.
Obama Adminstration’s Attack On Guns
Fox News reports that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has proposed a new regulation for the sale of rifles in border states (i.e. Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and California). The regulation would cover any rifle larger than .22 caliber that also has a detachable magazine, which is almost every rifle ever made.
According to an ATF spokesman:
the agency is pushing for this new regulation now because since 2004, there’s been a 100 percent increase by Mexican drug cartels using rifles, which are not covered by any reporting requirements.
This quote is misleading at best. The spokesman is implying that gun runners for the cartels are coming into the United States and buying semi-automatic rifles off the shelf. There have been many claims that most of the guns found in cartel caches are from the United States. Most of the guns that can be tracked are from the U.S., the U.S. military. The automatic rifles that we send to Mexico are stolen from the army and police and used by the cartels. The distinction between semi-automatic and automatic is key, because for the most part no one is this country is allowed to purchase a fully automatic rifle.
Later in the article a spokesman for the Brady Campaign is quoted:
“It makes sense that law enforcement should be alerted if someone is buying five, 10 or 100 assault weapons, when it’s likely that those guns could be headed to drug cartels in Mexico,” said Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign.
“It will give ATF the same amount of information about people who buy military-style assault weapons in bulk that they already have had for more than 40 years about people who buy handguns in bulk,” he said in a statement. “It’s the kind of crime-fighting information that our law enforcement officials ought to have if we want to reduce the number of assault weapons being trafficked illegally to Mexico, as well as to American cities.”
This quote is also misleading and full of exaggeration, meant to scare people who don’t know any better. There maybe a few cases of gun owners buying five rifles at a time, but it is very unlikely to occur not to mention ten or a hundred at one time, which is ridiculous. I don’t know anyone who owns a hundred guns and if you are reading this I bet you don’t either. As I said before cartels are not purchasing their guns from U.S. gun shops. This regulation will, if passed, inevitably make it harder for law-abiding citizens to arms themselves while doing nothing to deter criminals and the drug cartels who are already breaking the law.
Threat grows as Mexican cartels move to beef up U.S. presence
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 20/Oct/2010 17:16
SAN DIEGO — When a major Mexican drug cartel opened a branch office here on the California side of the border, U.S. authorities tapped into their cellphones – then listened, watched and waited.
According to the wiretaps and confidential informants, the suspects plotted kidnappings and killings and hired American teenage girls, with nicknames like Dopey, to smuggle quarter-pound loads of methamphetamine across the border for $100 a trip. To send a message to a rival, they dumped a disemboweled dog in his mother’s front yard.
But U.S. law enforcement officials say the most worrisome thing about the Fernando Sanchez Organization was how aggressively it moved to set up operations in the United States, working out of a San Diego apartment it called “The Office.”
Arizona Backlash?
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 17/Jul/2010 11:57
Maria Elena Durazo, Los Angeles County Federation of Labor:
“In discussing the Arizona law, group members passionately recounted how they had been “singled out” by law enforcement, schools, stores and employers because of their skin color. They held a variety of views about immigration issues, but they all strongly viewed Arizona’s law as both an outgrowth of racial profiling and as a policy that would lead to more of it.
The focus groups were followed by a poll of 600 “occasional” L.A. County Latino voters from all political parties. About 92% knew about the Arizona law, and 81% opposed it. And 73% feared that California could pass a similar measure.
… poll respondents worried about the Arizona statue’s intent, with 84% seeing it as being more about racial profiling than about controlling illegal immigration. And they overwhelmingly believed it would have ramifications outside of Arizona, including more racial profiling by law enforcement here in Southern California.
So what effect are these fears likely to have on future elections? After former Gov. Pete Wilson’s 1994 attack on immigrants, Latinos flocked to join unions, and they then went on to vote for pro-union, progressive candidates and measures. The growing strength of the labor movement has made the difference in election after election … making the Latino caucus the largest in the Legislature outside the two parties.
According to the Field Poll, the Latino share of registered voters in California nearly doubled between 1990 and 2005 (from 10% to 19%), and the trend is continuing. If the past response among Latino voters to immigrant-bashing is a model, this year’s Arizona law could prove problematic to Republicans.
California’s gubernatorial contest could ultimately be determined by the state’s growing Latino electorate and by the proven ability of organized labor to turn that vote out on election day.
And Arizona Republicans shouldn’t be overconfident either.
This fall, Arizonans will vote again for a governor, and Brewer hopes to retain the office. But Latino leaders there have a goal of registering and turning out 50,000 more Latinos this fall than voted in the last statewide election.
We intend to help.
Hundreds of California labor activists will begin that effort by traveling to Arizona in a caravan of chartered buses July 29, the day the Arizona statute is set to take effect.
In 1972, when Arizona passed a law preventing farm workers from organizing a union, Cesar Chavez responded with a 25-day fast and campaign against the measure, calling people to rally behind the phrase “Si, se puede!” (“Yes, we can!”). Time after time since then, people have found that yes, they can. And this fall, in both California and Arizona, we will see once again that careful organizing against wrongheaded policies can carry the day.”