i don't know about you,

but I'm really sick and tired of Sacramento and Washington, d.c.

you see, I'm a gun owner, hunter and shooting enthusiast. i am mostly into air rifles at the moment as it's not really very practical for me to do much shooting with firearms due to financial, geographical and legislative restraints...in other words i can't afford to go where i can utilize a firearm more often than what i do to hunt/shoot.

California state legislature is now moving to "register" long guns. (long guns meaning: rifles, shotguns and carbines)

from what I've seen, read and heard, there is no problem existing with "long guns" as is related to crime issues. i believe it's a retaliatory, legislative move in response to the way the lawful gun owning citizens of California have responded to they way California has attempted to stifle the ownership of AR-15 style rifles.

California is one of the few states that are restrictive on the AR style rifles; most other states allow the AR's with few, if any restrictions on their physical looks and operating characteristics, such as a forward mounted vertical grip...removable magazine or having a flash hider or suppressor. the single largest operational feature that is controlled by most, if not all states, is fully automatic fire.

i agree with the concept of fully automatic firearms in the hands of the normal every day citizenry being controlled.

having used machine guns in the army, I'm aware of their potential uses, or should i say, abuses? full auto firearms should be used ONLY in MILITARY applications.

the "average" AR is no different, functionally, than many of the semi-automatic rifles that have been available for MANY, MANY, years to the public. they have a "military" look about them and that scares the bee-jeebers out of legislators!

in fact, if you'll turn back the pages of history a few years, you'd see that the public were allowed to own and use full auto up until 1934.

the infamous pair of Bonnie and Clyde were slain with, and they themselves, had the famous BAR...Browning Automatic Rifle. and you've no doubt, heard of the "roaring twenties"? well the "roar" was in part, caused by the famous Thompson sub-machine gun used by the gangsters of the era.

many of us veterans now, still alive, have used the BAR as well as the Thompson SMG so it hasn't been that long ago that they were still commonly known and used. the biggest reason they're not still commonly used is the advance in firearms technology that's prevailed; the gaining in popularity of the use of a "pistol" style grip being the most influential of all.

what is stunning, to me at least, is the blatant ignorance, or perhaps the arrogance, of legislators, is their ignorance of the similarities in function/operation that exist between an AR and the commonly available 'sporting' semi-automatic firearms. in fact, i doubt most legislators would be able to define what a flash hider's, or a muzzle brake's, TRUE function is. do you know what their TRUE functions are?

differences such as: the AR normally has a "pistol" grip with a removable, multi-shot (usually ten or more rounds) magazine and may, or may not have a forward mounted, vertical, pistol grip and flash hider or muzzle brake; while it's 'sporting' counterpart normally does NOT have a "pistol" grip, forward mounted vertical, pistol grip, flash hider and the removable magazine normally does not hold more than five rounds, yet is still as capable as an "AR" insofar as "firepower" ('firepower' being defined as being a rapid rate of semi-automatic fire in this case) is concerned.

there are a number of "carbines" available that have the same functional characteristics of an "AR" yet do not LOOK like an "AR", such as the Ruger P-series carbines. these carbines were, allegedly, made for law enforcement as a back up to their commonly used sidearms, but were widely sold to the public, too. they were made in the pistol calibers; 9mm, .40 cal and other manufacturers made them in .45 ACP. it's been opined that these carbines were discontinued because of their success as being a very good self-defense arm, NOT because they weren't any good. the Ruger P-series carbines also share magazines and ammo with the Ruger P-series semi-auto pistols which means a person, or LEO, can use the same ammo and magazines for his sidearm and carbine thereby eliminating the need to carry two different ammo's for two different arms. the main advantage, of the carbine over the pistol, being the range and accuracy factors (and the carbine will have more 'power' for longer ranges from the same cartridge due to the longer tube/barrel).

they are extremely reliable, rugged, easily maintained, easy to handle, accurate for intended purpose (that being define as being "combat accurate")uses commonly available ammo and powerful enough to be effective within the "self-defense" perimeter of neutralizing a personal threat effectively.

it must also be noted that there are many, many, sporting/hunting, bolt action and single shot, rifles available with "pistol" grips available, legally, in every state in the union; i happen to own two such rifles myself.

my point here is that: we must stop California state legislature...they must be ousted. their fear, paranoia and ignorance will turn us into a mini-dictatorship in the foreseeable future if we allow them to do it! their sick logic is depriving us of our God given and constitutionally given rights. if they get away with this, what's next? more than likely, freedom of speech and religion.

you don't think so? since 1900, there have been 56 million people die as a result of "gun control"...Hitler had "gun control"...Stalin had "gun control"...the Ottoman Turks had "gun control"...the Japanese and Chinese have/had "gun control"...idi Oman Dada had "gun control" ...what do they ALL have in common? you know the answer! or you should, at least...

if you wish to be a "subject" or better yet...a SLAVE...then allow what's happening to go on...if not...then you'd better wake up and do something about it...

there are all sorts of euphemism about this subject but i think one that's very applicable at the moment is: "only FREE men own firearms, SLAVES are not allowed to!"