Despite some of the nation's toughest laws, the number of gun owners in California has more than doubled over the past ten years, according to new data released Friday by the state Department of Justice.
The state of California maintains a one-of-a-kind database of known gun owners, the Armed and Prohibited Persons System (APPS). APPS combines data on firearm transactions from two different state sources, the Dealer Record of Sale (DROS) database which tracks all transfers made by gun dealers and the Automated Firearms System (AFS) which includes the subset of guns the state requires to be registered, to compile a list of all individuals who legally purchased or were transferred a firearm in California.
Operated continuously since 2006, the program's goal is to identify and seize the weapons of individuals prohibited from owning a gun under state law.
And certainly, there are even more people who owned a gun before 2006 and still do.
Speaking for people I know, they bought firearms to protect themselves from the criminals who populate the state and who are not touched by the law, and to protect themselves from tyranny, in that order.
ReplyDeleteThe first duty of the State is to protect its people. California is more interested in getting felons in custody to vote for the Democrat Party and welcoming illegal aliens who they hope will vote for their benefactors in the Democrat Party. So people buy guns and ammo. Cause and effect.
The public does not put locks on its doors to protect themselves from the police.
Once again, proving that the only reason for firearms registry is to facilitate seizure.
ReplyDeleteAnd the APPS is crying they need more thugs on the payroll to do their job. I'm betting very few of these "illegal" firearms are being seized in Compton or Oakland.
two cops came to my house when i called in the break in and theft and both told me that there was diddly to do. one of the things I lost in that crime was a fire arm. I strongly suspect that the Oakland PD got that gun in some crime scene in the past 30 years and even though the serial number on it was given to the police they made zero effort to return my property.
ReplyDeleteIt was like the campus cops at Penn State who would steal your bike, cut the lock and remove the bike if it didn't have the campus registration stickers on it.
Let us not even discuss asset forfeiture where the police just steal stuff.