Among the bills sent to him by the end of the legislative session last week is one that would ban the future sale of most types of semi-automatic rifles that accept detachable magazines.
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“The opponents like to paint it as some unreasonable restriction on gun ownership, and these bills are anything but,” Steinberg said in an interview moments after the Senate adjourned for the year. “They are drawing a very careful distinction between gun ownership for sport, hunting and even self-defense versus these guns that by definition fire dozens, hundreds of rounds indiscriminately and kill people.”
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Perez, a gun owner himself, supported the rest of the measures sent to the governor.
“The proof that we’ve struck the right balance is that we have the strictest gun control laws and that people are still able to go out and buy the guns they want to buy if they legitimately have the right to own them,” he said during a news conference after the year’s legislative session had come to a close.
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2013/09/14/calif-firearms-bills-would-enact-strict-rules/
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“The opponents like to paint it as some unreasonable restriction on gun ownership, and these bills are anything but,” Steinberg said in an interview moments after the Senate adjourned for the year. “They are drawing a very careful distinction between gun ownership for sport, hunting and even self-defense versus these guns that by definition fire dozens, hundreds of rounds indiscriminately and kill people.”
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Perez, a gun owner himself, supported the rest of the measures sent to the governor.
“The proof that we’ve struck the right balance is that we have the strictest gun control laws and that people are still able to go out and buy the guns they want to buy if they legitimately have the right to own them,” he said during a news conference after the year’s legislative session had come to a close.
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2013/09/14/calif-firearms-bills-would-enact-strict-rules/
