Year: 2008

The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission wants to shut down a gun club:

Baxter, a Pacifica resident, is one of about 300 members worried about losing access to their favorite pastime as the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission develops a plan aimed at improving the health of the Lake Merced watershed and increasing recreational opportunities at the long-neglected lake. The gun club is the only recreational activity at risk of being closed as part of the possible changes.

It looks like a club for shotgunners, mostly.  But that isn’t stopping residents of the smuggiest city in America from getting their panties in a bunch:

But the prospect of shutting the gun club has some people steaming mad and others celebrating. In a city that voted three years ago to ban handguns entirely, many residents may be surprised that a gun club exists – and some of its critics are hoping to seize on the anti-firearm sentiment.

Felicia Zeiger, who lives in Merced Heights, has made the club a crusade for years. She says she can’t garden on weekends because of the noise, and is often forced to drive to the other side of the city to walk her dog, who is terrified by the cacophony. 

Club’s been there longer than you lady, deal with it.  This is what happens when burdensome gun regulations drive the number of gun owners below critical mass.  The don’t have to make guns illegal if we have no where to shoot them.

George Nation, Professor of Law and Business doesn’t like the firearms industry:

“Traditionally, gun manufacturers have escaped responsibility when it comes to the criminal use of their products,” says Nation. “The legal system essentially presumes that criminal activity is not to be expected and that manufacturers have no control over the use of their products.”

“But with more than two million handgun-related crimes each year, and some gun advertising clearly aimed at criminal users, this traditional presumption is at odds with reality,” he adds.

Anyone able to grab a copy of this law review?  I’ve seen a lot of advertising for guns in gun magazeines, but not anywhere else.  I’d like to know what evidence Professor Nation has to make this claim.  My guess is he has none.

UPDATE: Trigger Finger provides some examples of what Professor Nation may be talking about.

Not content to stick it to gun owners with just Microstamping, now they want you to have to get permission from the police before purchasing ammunition.  In addition to that, you have to be licensed to sell ammo to transfer more than 50 rounds in a month.  So you couldn’t give or sell your friend 100 rounds of some old ammo you’ve had sitting around without breaking the law.  Each sale of ammunition will also be subject to a three dollar surcharge, to be sent to your masters in Sacramento.

The message to gun owners is loud and clear in California: “We don’t want you here, and if you stay here, and continue doing this disgusting thing, we’re going to do a lot of things so that it’ll be easy to throw you in jail.”