Why someone who owns guns would move to California isn’t really clear, but . . .
Californians would have to take a four-hour course with live-fire training to buy a gun if a bill advancing through the Legislature gets signed into law.
Senate Bill 948, by Berkeley Democratic Sen. Jesse Arreguín, also would require gun owners moving to California to obtain a firearm safety certificate and register their firearms within 180 days of their arrival. Beginning in 2028, obtaining that certificate would require completing the training.
It’s the latest effort by California Democrats to add more restrictions on firearm ownership in a state that already has some of the toughest gun laws in the country.
— Ryan Sabalow in Moving to California with a gun? You might have to take a four-hour course
Test
Trump Endorses Ken Paxton as Gun Owners Remember Cornyn’s Record.
ht* tps://www.ammoland.com/2026/05/trump-endorses-ken-paxton-texas-senate-runoff/
It’s already a requirement for inbound residents to register their firearms within a short time period after arriving. What this is doing, however, is adding similar requirements currently applied to gun purchasers to existing owners. This is not applied to current owners already living here in CA. For example, if I own my grandfather’s pistol that was transferred to me prior to 1993 (when intrafamilial transfers became subject to registration), then I legally own it and Sacramento knows nothing about it and doesn’t require me to take any training. But if someone else moves into CA and brings their own inherited gun, they must declare it, register it, and (according to this proposed legislation) also take a training course to get permission to even own the thing. Very lopsided.
Vote Biancho for Governor. Vote Pratt for L.A. Mayor. Start bringing the political pendulum away from the absurd and back toward good sense and personal liberty.
“Vote Pratt for L.A. Mayor.”
Mr. Haz, I’ve heard that thanks to Cali not requiring voter ID, a growing ground-swell of out-of-staters are planning a road trip to LA on election day to vote for Pratt for mayor.
Heard anything about this?
ID isn’t required in the voting booth itself, but it’s required to register to vote, and the Dems melded our voting and driver license systems together. The legitimacy of our DMV is an entire conversation all by itself.
CA is net losing residents every year.
The only people moving in are drug addicts and mental patients to sleep on the sidewalks and in tarp towns. They aren’t declaring anything or taking any training.
Much of the state is a third world shithole in denial.
If the left hasn’t demonstrate their true intent by now, then many will never see the light.
Some folk can be trusted all the time, some most of the time and some can never be trusted.
Like a literacy test for voting?
how about a 40 hour course with a final exam in US civics and basic economics before any CA resident can move OUT of CA? If they fail the exam, they must wait 2 years before they can apply again for the course. And a 5 year probationary period before that person can vote in the state to which they move. And the course cannot be taught by any person who lives or has lived in CA. And they have to be tested for CaWD before they can leave the CA. And they would also need to have an entrance visa issued by the state to which they intend to move, which state can impose whatever restrictions that state dictates before granting such visa. Would this be sufficient protection to the way of life in the target destination?
Would this law also apply to illegal immigrants, because it seems they are the only group moving to California, gun owners not so much.