For the first time in California history, this proposal would require mandatory state-approved training, including live-fire shooting and at least eight hours of instruction, just to BUY a firearm — not carry it, not use it, but to own it. [Watch]
And challenges by gun owners who must scrape together legal costs will go on for years and years and years, which is part of the plan.
[Via Jess]
The Ninth Circus will almost certainly uphold such a law both at the original trial, on appeal before a three-judge panel, and on further appeal before an en banc panel.
And then all SCOTUS must do to let it stand is … nothing.
And California knows this; they’re counting on it.