In the last two years, California’s ban on assault weapons, on high-capacity magazines and on rifle purchases by adults under the age of 21 have all been slapped down by conservative judges.
In his inaugural speech, the governor denounced “a gun lobby willing to sacrifice the lives of our children to line their pockets.” Meanwhile, a National Rifle Association spokesman predicted the Trump-altered Supreme Court meant “winter may very well be coming for gun laws in California.”Īs Newsom and Democrats in the Legislature continue to push California gun restrictions to the legal limit, gun rights activists are pushing that legal limit back through the courts. It’s a debate that’s been raging since Gov. And every new mass shooting reignites the debate. In the years since, California’s progressive politicians have layered on restrictions while gun owners and manufacturers continue to try to find their way out of them. It’s hard to say which now seems more unlikely: that two dozen revolutionaries could legally stroll into the state Assembly chamber with semi-automatic rifles, or that a Republican governor would champion stricter gun control. After the Panthers showed up in the Capitol, his bill sailed through and was signed by then-Gov. The Panthers’ efforts to “police the police” already had led Republican Assemblyman Don Mulford to propose legislation to ban the “open carry” of loaded firearms within California cities and towns. In California there were few restrictions on carrying loaded weapons in public. The modern American gun debate began in 1967, when 30 protesting members of the Black Panther Party marched into the California Capitol with loaded handguns, shotguns and rifles.
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