FPC Acquires New California DOJ “Bullet-Button Assault Weapons” Regulations

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Firearms Policy CoalitionSACRAMENTO, CA-(Ammoland.com)- In response to numerous legal demands, including one sent today by attorney Jason Davis, the California Office of Administrative Law (OAL) has provided Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) with a copy of previously-secret Department of Justice (DOJ) “assault weapons” regulations. FPC has published the regulations at BulletButtonBan.com, a Web site it established in 2016 for tracking the new California assault weapon laws and regulations.

“FPC’s Regulatory Watch program has once again proved its value in ensuring that the State of California does not advance its gun control agenda behind closed doors,” said FPC President Brandon Combs. “Our staff and attorneys are already reviewing these regulations for legal violations.”

“Now that we are able to review these regulations, our attorneys have been instructed to proceed with filing a new federal civil rights lawsuit challenging the State’s ban on ‘assault weapons’,” Combs said. “We’ve already filed a lawsuit challenging the ban on ‘large-capacity magazines’ and it looks like even more litigation will follow these cases.”

Until OAL provided the regulations to FPC today, neither agency permitted them to be viewed by FPC, its policy staff members, and its attorneys, effectively keeping them from public scrutiny and evaluation. In the process of denying access to these public records, FPC believes that both agencies violated the California Constitution and Public Records Act.

“Once again, the DOJ is trying to conduct the people’s business outside of the light of public scrutiny,” said Craig DeLuz, FPC’s California lobbyist and spokesperson. “They are trying to ram through regulations that will affect millions of people without allowing anyone to see them, let alone accept personal and professional comments to ensure they are fair and conform with the statutes.”

Last December, the DOJ submitted its first attempt at “assault weapons” regulations under the OAL’s “File & Print” process, which means that the DOJ believed the regulations were not subject to public notice or comment. However, thousands of FPC members and Second Amendment supporters sent letters opposing the secret process through FPC’s grassroots tools and, without further comment, the DOJ withdrew the regulations near the end of OAL review period. A quarter of a year later, the DOJ has now re-submitted regulations under the same “File & Print” process.

“At first glance, the DOJ’s latest package of ‘assault weapons’ regulations are as awful as their first attempt—it’s no wonder they wanted to hide them. The DOJ’s actions to keep the regulations secret were as undemocratic as they are unlawful,” concluded DeLuz.

About the Firearms Policy Coalition

Firearms Policy Coalition (www.firearmspolicy.org) is a 501(c)4 grassroots nonprofit organization. FPC’s mission is to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, especially the fundamental, individual Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.

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Bill

Well hell isnt that how the gubment does 98% of its business, in the dark? Behind closed doors? Away from public scrutiny? In secret? Everybody knows, thats where/ how the best deals are made, if youre looking to benefit yourselves or screw somebody over.
I can still hear nancy pelosi saying that we would have to read the bill ( after it had already become law) to know what was in it. Makes me sick.

Lee

These crazy things happen at all levels of governing. Our HOA was so busy trying to protect us from ourselves by making decisions in the dark that they did not see the backbreaking lawsuit coming; now the homeowners are all suffering.

Stay alert, stay awake, and stay armed.

Gabe S.

It’s very sad… Fact being these bans were supposed to help bring down violent crimes when in fact they do nothing but demonize law abiding citizens… Check the stats, in all the bans that are in effect crime is getting worse every day. Oh wait criminals don’t register their firearms… They can’t legally own firearms. So they make up these laws cause why? Sadly we here in California put these people in charge…. Why? Well maybe it’s time to start over… Vote them all out… Because they’ve forgotten who they work for….
That’s just my opinion in the matter…

Heston

They sound like Hitler.

Jim

Yes DBM. We have it in New York State already…the SAFE ACT (Designed by Chairman Cuomo, and the other “two men in the room” who are now in jail).

DBM

For all of you NOT in California, this is what the anti-gun democrats have planned for you too. ALl you have to do to have YOUR guns banned is stop fighting for your rights.

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