Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday signed six gun-control bills into law, including a requirement that ammunition purchasers undergo background checks. The governor vetoed five other measures, including an expansion of the use of restraining orders to take guns from people deemed to be dangerous.
“My goal in signing these bills is to enhance public safety by tightening our existing laws in a responsible and focused manner, while protecting the rights of law-abiding gun owners,” Brown wrote in a message. Brown approved bills that would ban the sale of semiautomatic rifles equipped with bullet buttons allowing the ammunition magazines to be easily detached and replaced.

Bills the governor signed will:
— Require an ID and background check to purchase ammunition and create a new state database of ammunition owners

— Ban possession of ammunition magazines that hold more than 10 bullets.

— Restrict the loaning of guns without background checks to close family members.

Source: Gov. Jerry Brown signs bulk of sweeping gun-control package into law, vetoes five bills – LA Times

They keep electing stupid people and wonder why they get fucked? The Bullet Button was a Gun Control mandate for God’s sake!

Silver lining: Who else needs more proof that Gun Control Activists and Government is coming for our guns? 

On other news, we should be seeing a glut of cheap magazines for sale soon.

And whomever comes up with the way to load an AR-15 with stripper clips or other device via the ejection port, is gonna make a bundle.

In preparation for the 4th of July weekend, I would like to share with you an Independence Day fun fact:

Every time a 4th of July firework goes off, a terrorist loses his virgins.

Plan accordingly to do your patriotic duty.

Via Sam G.

One hundred years ago, 19th Century warfare died a brutal death. The traditional  waves of men thrown over the side of trenches were cut down by Hiram Maxim’s Machine Guns which the Brits ended up calling The Devil’s Paintbrush.

When the battle was finally over in November, a million men died on both sides.

They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
They fell with their faces to the foe.
(For the Fallen – Robert Laurence Binyon)

EU bans claim that water can prevent dehydration.
Brussels bureaucrats were ridiculed yesterday after banning drink manufacturers from claiming that water can prevent dehydration.
EU officials concluded that, following a three-year investigation, there was no evidence to prove the previously undisputed fact. Producers of bottled water are now forbidden by law from making the claim and will face a two-year jail sentence if they defy the edict, which comes into force in the UK next month.

Source: EU bans claim that water can prevent dehydration – Telegraph

Another in the long list of EU regulatory idiocies across the year.  If I were a betting man, I would not be surprised if other countries follow Britain’s stage left.

Hat tip Rob R.

ZOMG! Did you see that! A Trump fanatic/Fascist verbally abusing a minority member! How could that be possible? Animal!

Here is a better view:

But if you go to the Politico article, you catch something interesting on the caption of the picture:

An anti-Donald Trump protester clashes with a Trump supporter outside a campaign rally in Anaheim, Calif., last month. Activists — both pro- and anti-Trump — are expected to flood the streets of downtown Cleveland, sometimes simultaneously, during the Republican National Convention. | Getty

Yup, the big mouth is an Anti-Trump protester and the young man is Pro-Trump.

Now, CSGV is “troubled” because of this:

Bresler noted that firearms will be allowed in the “event zone” because of Ohio’s status as an open carry state, even though other more mundane items will be banned — from water guns to tape to sleeping bags..

And, of course the comments are what we expect from the Laddites:

Gun Control Activists are such a violent group. Wishing the death of a presidential candidate? Tsk, tsk.

The text is finally out! H.R.5576 – To authorize the Attorney General to deny the transfer of firearms and explosives and Federal firearms and explosives licenses and permits to known or suspected terrorists. 

Representative Carlos Curbello from Florida’s 26th Congressional District is the father of this little “compromise” monster.

So what is in the bill? Obviously the denial of gun purchases if you are in the government’s fallible secret lists. Due Process? Preponderance of the Evidence? I laugh at thee! You get Reasonable Suspicion which in normal life would not allow a cop to do but a basic pat down for weapons but forbids him to do a full search of a suspect without Probable Cause..

The Attorney general again gets the power to change at a whim how to challenge or even maybe deny you a challenge of the denial. Yes, Due process is again out of the window.

And then, we have the “F*** the Constitution and Separation of Powers” amendment.

Next?

No discovery shall be permitted, unless the court shall determine extraordinary circumstances requires discovery in the interests of justice.

The administrative record may include classified information, which the United States shall submit to the court in camera and ex parte. The court shall review all classified information in camera and ex parte unless it enters an order under subparagraph (C).
(C) The court is authorized to determine the extent to which cleared counsel shall be permitted to access classified information necessary to protect the due process rights of a petitioner and enter an appropriate order.

IANAL, but that seems to be pretty much “Dude, we ain’t disclosing what we don’t want you to know even if it is exculpatory in nature.”

Read the bill and you will find that for any possible appeal a defendant (yes, I use that term) may have, the AG has two or three “escape hatches” he may use to bypass any judicial remedies.

I am sure good Legal Minds will study with more detail this bill and provide better explanations. I will post them in the blog as soon as I see them.

And to Rep. Curbello: Maybe you should talk to your parents about Secret Courts and the tyranny of an unchecked government:

Carlos was born in Miami on March 1, 1980, to Carlos and Teresita Curbelo, Cuban exiles who fled Fidel Castro’s tyranny in the 1960s.

You seem to have forgotten your roots.