All Members! Please Help Defeat Anti-Airgun Bill

[CBR400RR]

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  No more black airguns!
  If you enjoy shooting your Walther PPK/S or a Crosman C11, you better
  get used to them being ALL red or ALL blue or ALL green -- or
  completely clear!

  California State Senator Kevin de Leon thinks your black airguns are
  dangerous and has proposed CA Senate Bill 798 to stop you from having
  them. SB 798 states that all airguns MUST be painted brightly. No more black guns!

  Some background
  In December 2010, three boys were shooting their airsoft guns in a public park. It was dark, but
  their pistols had orange muzzles. The police confronted them and ordered them to put down their
  guns. Two boys complied but the third did not. He was shot and suffered severe injuries.

  To prevent another such occurrence, Sen. de Leon had a knee-jerk reaction and wrote SB 798 to
  stop EVERYONE from buying, owning or shooting black airguns.

  It gets worse!
  This new law also affects airsoft guns, which millions of people safely use for re-enactments,
  skirmishing and maintaining firearm proficiency.

  If you hate orange muzzles on your airsoft guns, what are you going to do when the ONLY airsoft
  guns you can buy, carry or shoot are red, blue, green or completely clear?

  California's Penal Code prohibits the sale and distribution of imitation firearms. BB devices, which
  are listed as airsoft guns and BB guns, are specifically excluded from that law. HOWEVER, SB 798
  adds airsoft guns and BB guns to the list of imitation firearms that are prohibited UNLESS those guns
  are brightly colored.

  YOU are guilty
  Because you shoot a "BB device," Sen. de Leon thinks you're not a responsible person and must be
  forced to have brightly colored guns for your own protection. Basically, he's saying you're guilty by
  association because you shoot one of these guns!

  While we sympathize with the boy who was injured in last December's incident, that does not give
  Sen. de Leon the right to include every airsoft or BB gun owner as someone who needs the
  government to tell them what to do.

  What you can do
  If California passes this bill, other states will get similar bills going. Whether you live in California or
  elsewhere, show your support for airsoft and airgun owners everywhere.

  Click here to go to our facebook page to download a letter that you can send to Senator de Leon
  and your own California representatives about SB 798.

  Do it today -- tomorrow may be too late!
 
 
   http://e-lobbyist.com/gaits/text/241345
  http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/04/bb-gun-bill-advances-in-reaction-to-lapd-shooting.html
  http://www.facebook.com/pages/No-On-California-SB-798/220859654597216
  

[aack73]

they need to stop protecting people from themselves. If you want to go and do something stupid it's your choice so long as you only endangering  yourself. JMO.

[magnum]

I believe I read where criminals on the east coast were painting there pistol muzzel orange to create confusion! and some idiot even had a pink one! and thought they were going to ban painting guns bright colors at one time?
IMO If ask to lay down a weapon "orange knife" or what ever it is you are perceived to have by law inforcement you need to listen and do so quickly!! Actions speak louder than words.

[reallyneat]

Here is a link to a petition that has a number of signatures already. Just fill out the info requested in the upper left corner of the screen and click the big button. Hopefully this and other efforts will make a difference:

http://www.change.org/petitions/say-no-to-california-state-sb-798-the-anti-airsoft-bill

Do your part, as the video says...

dw

[AlwaysLearning]

the kid sounds like an idiot. A cop points a gun at you and says drop your weapon... sounds like someone failed common sense 101 and earned that bullet.

[CBR400RR]

I signed and it said this.

Say NO to California State SB 798 - The Anti-airsoft Bill
117 signatures needed!

[pindog2000]

Its stupid but like every thing else ,some idiot will shoot up a grocery store with a airgun and then they will treat airguns like firearms its a matter of time .I agree a cop tells you to stop and drop you stop and drop,that kid was an idiot.

[Paul in MD.]

I sent my name ,,4,912

[reallyneat]

I signed and it said this.

Say NO to California State SB 798 - The Anti-airsoft Bill
117 signatures needed!

I don't know, but I just checked the petition site and it says there's 4917 signatures, which means 83 signatures 'needed' to reach 5000...

Thanks

[aack73]

petition signed. is it gonna really help much from people not residing in CA? i seen a red gun today. it looked pretty good. but i shouldn't be forced to have a red one. i like black ones too.

[reallyneat]

If the numbers are high enough, I believe it will help, no matter where you're from. I just checked and the petition now has almost 6000 signers. If only there were more folks involved...