Hurrah for the Calguns Foundation! Holding the line in CA (and now in DC) since 2008! Go get'em again Gura!

Might this cause the DC voting rights people to drop their opposition to the amendment denying the District any unlawful authority they think they have to infringe the second amendment?

It sure would save them a ton of money.

Bad habits die hard, I suppose.

I hope Gura has been reimbursed by DC for his trouble in the Parker/Heller cases. They need to pay ... dearly.

Things sure are getting more interesting ...

So, when DC loses this one, what will that do to California's laws?

I've heard the Court of Appeals for the DC is "the second most powerful court" after the supremes. Does that have any influence?

Although, frankly, it doesn't matter. I was born in California, and lived there most of my life (50 years) but I'm not ever going to live in that third world (OK, 2.8 world) craphole again.

Flighterdoc ... with all due respect, it very much DOES matter. Although no one is forced to live there, NO ONE should endure unconstitutional constraints on their rights.

When DC's 'California' list is shot down and we get incorporation either from SCOTUS or in the 9th by Nordyke then CA's own law is in serious jeopardy.

Complete OT:

When you look at the origins of the terms "First World", "Second World" and "Third World" you realize that California IS a "Second World" state.

The "First World" was the US and it's allies--the ones who stood in opposition to the "Second World", that being Warsaw Pact and Communist Countries, and the "Third World" was all the pissant little unaligned countries like India (which at the time had lots of people and no industry), most of Asia, Africa, and large parts of South America.

Now most of those countries *are* aligned with what is left of the Communist world and against the US.

One of the really interesting things about the CA Roster and the 'borrowed' DC Roster is that the Rostering status is lost when replacement or aftermarket parts are used.

Let's say you have a Rostered Kimber 1911 pistol (and which is currently still on Roster).

After some time you had an issue, say, with the hammer and beavertail and you were to replace with, say, Ed Brown or Brownell's drop-in parts. After this repair your Kimber would no longer be Rostered since it wasn't in the same state as it was tested/approved or listed. This even applies to color schemes/finish jobs, etc.

In CA, that just means your gun can't be sold back to a dealer into his CA-sellable dealer inventory, though it can be 'private party transferred'. In DC, however, it'd make the gun not legal to possess.

I really don't know any other law that creates a preferential warranty-replacement parts business,
(each Rostered gun mfgr thus has a monopoly on replacement parts for its guns), discourages competition in the replacement parts biz, or penalizes someone for repairing something.

Bill Wiese
The Calguns Foundation
San Jose, CA