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SB 249 (Yee, Firearms) FACT SHEET
StopSB249.org & the STOP SB 249 campaign is a grassroots
initiative consisting of The CalgunsFoundation, California
Association of Federal Firearms Licensees (Cal-FFL), and tens of
thousands of
law-abiding California gun owners and civil rights advocates
opposed to SB 249.
SB 249s author & primary Legislative member is Senator
Leland Yee (D-San Francisco, San Mateo).
SB 249 co-authors include Senate President pro Tem Darrell
Steinberg (D-Sacramento), Senator Kevin de
Len (D-Los Angeles), Senator Loni Hancock (D-Berkeley),
Assemblyman Anthony Portantino (D-LaCaada Flintridge), and
Assemblyman Mike Feuer (D-Los Angeles).
Sen. Yees chief-of-staff, Adam Keigwin, has stated that
California should ban all guns, even bolt-actionhunting rifles.
SB 249 is endorsed by rabidly anti-gun state Attorney General
Kamala Harris, former District Attorney ofSan Francisco, who has
attempted to prosecute legal gun owners for non-crimes.
Attorney General Kamala Harris has gone on record under penalty
of perjury in federal court stating that
Bullet Button (maglocked) firearms are legal. (See
attached.)
Senator Yee has stated on the record in his Authors Statement
that Bullet Button (maglocked) guns are
currently legal.
See: http://leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0201-
0250/sb_249_cfa_20120702_100005_asm_comm.html.
SB 249, if passed, will:
Create a massive outright ban on firearms in common use that are
protected under theSecond Amendment to the United States
Constitution.
Be possibly the largest unconstitutional government taking of
private property in Californiahistory, with cost exposure to the
state reaching as high as $1 Billion or more, and violating the
Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Force a government-mandated confiscation & seizure of
hundreds of thousands of legally-possessed Bullet Button
(maglocked) firearms without compensation for gun owners,violating
the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the California
Constitution.
Make hundreds of thousands of law-abiding Californians,
including active law enforcementofficers (who have no exemption
under SB 249) into criminals on July 1, 2013. SB 249 is anex post
facto law and is expressly prohibited by the U.S. Constitution. SB
249 would criminalize
the possession of firearms that are currently legal to possess.
States are prohibited from passingand enforcing ex post facto laws
by Clause 1 of Article I of Section 10 of the U.S.
Constitution.
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o An ex post facto law (from the Latin for "from after the
action" or "after the fact") orretroactive law is a law that
retroactively changes the legal consequences (or status) ofactions
committed or relationships that existed prior to the enactment of
the law. In
reference to criminal law, it may criminalize actions that were
legal when committed
[like SB 249 does].
Require that California gun owners use featureless detachable
magazine firearms (whichallows gun owners to legally use
lawfully-possessed high capacity magazines in those SB
249-compliant firearms). (See Ten Percent Firearms YouTube video
on SB 249 and SB 249-
compliant firearms here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhC8LpHPbRQ. See also SolarTactical
YouTube video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8ATsHBXG7w.)
Attacks fast-growing family recreation opportunities and
shooting sports like 3-gun andaction rifle competitions.
Irreparably harm thousands of California small business owners
and shutter businesses. Take away millions of dollars of tax
revenues that support schools and law enforcement.
If SB 249 passes in any form, Cal-FFL and The Calguns Foundation
will file a federal civil rights
lawsuit seeking injunctive and declaratory relief.
For more information, please visit http://StopSB249.org.
Stop SB 249/StopSB249.org contact:
Brandon Combs
(650) [email protected]
President, Cal-FFLSecretary, The Calguns Foundation
