Don’t let California persecute gun owners | Washington Examiner

Another such cute proposal has just been signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom. The measure, AB 173, will soon give researchers at the California Firearm Violence Research Center at the University of California-Davis access to all the information that the state collects about gun and ammunition purchasers , including personally identifying information, although this is supposedly not to be transferred, revealed, and used for purposes other than research.

Although the media try to tell a different story, Democrats obsession with identifying and tracking gun owners has been the single biggest obstacle to reforms that would help keep guns out of the wrong hands at the federal level. The best such proposal , which would have dramatically reduced the number of transactions lacking background checks, was rejected by the Obama administration after the Sandy Hook massacre because it deliberately avoided creating databases that could be used to track gun owners.

More to the point, California s state government already has the bad habit of using the information it keeps on gun owners to hound them in a way other states do not. In 2013, the state began a very expensive program of doubtful effectiveness to seize guns from purchasers who subsequently were rendered ineligible for example, due to a criminal conviction or even just a nasty divorce.

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It’s getting so I don’t like the government of California any more.