California laws
Posted by Kite005@reddit | Firearms | View on Reddit | 13 comments
Not really thinking about moving back to Cali (where I bought my first gun, a HK91). I know their gun laws are ridiculous but what if you already have a bunch of guns (that you currently can't buy there) and you move there?
Potential_Goal_7603@reddit
Taken from California Carry website:
When you take up residency in California
Within 60 days of moving back to California with firearms, and you intend to keep it, you must report to the DOJ "information concerning [yourself] and a description of the firearm in question," (27560).
Per the DOJ, specifically you must complete and submit a New Resident Report of Firearm Ownership (BOF 4010A) form, along with $19, payable to to the California Department of Justice, Bureau of Firearms. You must include a copy of your California driver license or identification card. If it states “federal limits apply,” see the section in Buying Guns regarding alternative forms of identification.
For each firearm you report, you must give: the serial number, make, model, caliber, country of origin (where it was made), and the barrel length. This is gun registration; of course you have to report this information. If you don’t like it, don’t register your gun.
https://oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/agweb/pdfs/firearms/forms/ab991frm.pdf
EliteEthos@reddit
What’s your question?
You can’t bring whatever you want… they would all still have to comply with the law
Kite005@reddit (OP)
So sounds like the law is not that you just can't buy them, you can't even own them. Probably depended on where you lived but for the AWB, (whole different thing, I know), wasn't it the case that you couldn't buy them but if you already had them you could keep them?
RandoAtReddit@reddit
If Canada said meth was legal, could you bring it into the US, because you bought it somewhere legal?
Of course not.
Same with California and firearms compliance.
EliteEthos@reddit
You can’t have them in the state.
I’m a peace officer in CA. I’m not in the habit of taking people’s guns. I will happily turn a blind eye if I can.
HOWEVER…
If I have to, it literally doesn’t matter where you go it or how. Nowhere in the statute does it allow for anything like that. As soon as you cross that state line, it’s a felony. There is likely a grace period to register them in the state but they have to be made compliant.
I highly recommend separating any upper from its lower on any guns you can before you can register them.
coldafsteel@reddit
r/caguns
You won't be able to bring them into the state.
BGMcGee@reddit
🙄
retardsmart@reddit
The laws are so screwy that we'd have to check each gun one at a time.
Ask around at https://old.reddit.com/r/CAguns/
pinesolthrowaway@reddit
If it isn’t banned by name, or banned by feature, it can be brought in in a move. The handgun roster doesn’t apply to any handguns brought in that way, they’ve just got to be in a CA compliant configuration and not banned by name
Once they’re in the state, you go to the CFARs website and self-register them, and then you’re good to go
generalraptor2002@reddit
People who already owned “assault weapons” in California when the ban came into effect had to register them by a certain deadline or they’d become “unregistered assault weapons” which are illegal
New residents to California cannot register assault weapons and must dispose of them before entering the state
2WheelSuperiority@reddit
You don't bring your guns they don't like. Period.
CheeseMints@reddit
All firearms you bring into the state must be in California compliant configuration
Magazines cannot hold more than 10 rounds (tubular magazines exempted).
No SBR, No full auto, No suppressors, No .50BMG, No DD
If I missed a thing or two someone else can post them.
PrestigiousOne8281@reddit
Is there a point to this? Like you can bring pretty much anything that’s not an NFA item, it just has to comply with the laws such as no threaded barrels and the AW laws.