Our friend Jim Shults (Shults Media Relations, LLC) has forwarded a note calling attention to S.B. 249. Yes, we checked, and yes, it's bad. The bill would essentially outlaw any gun with a removable box magazine and do away with the "bullet button" workaround that California activists were able to enact a couple of years ago. Not only would S.B. 249 make common guns illegal, it would require a massive gun turn-in. If the gun turn-in is found legal, it's a violation of the Fifth Amendment as well as the Second. On the other hand if gun owners were to be compensated for their confiscated property, it would drive the state further into a fiscal crisis.

What to do
Friends unfortunate enough to live in the People's Democratic Republic of California should immediately contact their legislators. A good source of information is http://calguns.net and its special page, http://stopsb249.org/. You can also follow their Twitter feed @stopsb249. If you are outside of California and have friends, there, alert them and let them know how bad this thing is.

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