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This is the first article in a series recounting the birth, growth, and death of California’s gun industry. Early morning sunlight beamed through windows partially covered by steel Venetian blinds shading the first patrons at Larry’s Coffee Shop, situated not on a typical retail thoroughfare, but among the concrete tilt-up buildings defining an industrial park. [...] Since our officers will now have to spend time on the road delivering criminals to Riverside County Jail in Indio, response times will of course be long or not at all. Therefore, I guess I’ll be heading to the local gun shop to arm myself. Thank goodness my father taught me to shoot in my [...] As some states consider bills to get more guns in the hands of gun owners, some states are considering bills aimed at banning open carry. In California, the Democrat-controlled Assembly Public Safety Committee passed a measure banning “open carry.” The move is expected to draw opposition and will likely lead to a number of lawsuits. [...] With guns in holsters and rifles strapped to their chests, Second Amendment activists converged Monday outside California’s Capitol to demonstrate their right to bear arms. Most of the 50 protesters who gathered brought guns and rifles, although they said their weapons were not loaded to comply with the state’s open-carry law. “The Second Amendment gives [...] Given El Dorado County’s Old West name, maybe it isn’t surprising that the big issue in its biggest election this year is about carrying guns. Everywhere the six non-incumbent candidates for sheriff go – even Monday’s forum in an upscale retirement community – Topic A has been who gets a license to carry a concealed [...] “Just as Canada is about to do away with their long gun registry after squandering $1 billion, California wishes to attack law abiding gun owners for firearms not used in crime.” [...] The coffee giant Starbucks says it won’t take issue with gun owners who take advantage of “open carry” laws and bring firearms into their restaurants. Virginia is one of the states that allow gun owners to openly carry firearms in public places. In some places, activists have gathered at restaurants — weapons strapped [...] The U.S. Supreme Court is about to take dead aim at the fierce debate over gun regulations in cities and states across the country, with California’s strict gun-control laws squarely in the cross hairs of the legal showdown. The justices on Tuesday will hear arguments in a challenge to a Chicago area ban on handguns [...] A controversy was brewing in East Palo Alto Tuesday night after a police detective made apparently joking comments through his Facebook account saying “open carry” advocates who visibly carry guns in public should be shot. Now East Palo Alto has become a reluctant testing ground for a battle of constitutional amendments: one police officer’s ‘freedom [...] A federal appeals court upheld a ban on convicted felons possessing firearms on Monday, saying it’s consistent with the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Thrice convicted felon Peter Vongxay, 27, had appealed a prison sentence for possession a loaded semiautomatic handgun, Horwood said. Vongxay, whose felony convictions include car burglary and drug possession, argued [...] |
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