SF takes a bead on OC gun show

June 13, 2013

By John Seiler

Here’s another reason to split the state apart into at least two pieces — although many more would be better. The OC Register reports:

“One of Orange County’s largest gun show operators has been named in a lawsuit filed by the San Francisco city attorney that alleged it knowingly allowed gun accessory manufacturers to ‘skirt’ California restrictions on high-capacity ammunition magazines by selling them as disassembled pieces.

“Utah-based B&L Productions, which puts on the Crossroads of the West gun shows several times a year at the Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa, is targeted by San Francisco District Attorney Dennis Herrera, who charges the show operator allowed three companies to sell ‘repair kits’ to Californians that were really a ruse to circumvent the state’s 14-year ban on high-capacity magazines.

“Costa Mesa spokesman Bill Lobdell said Wednesday the lawsuit isn’t on the city’s radar and there are currently no plans by the city to sue the gun show on similar grounds. The suit notes Crossroads has multiple shows in California, but does not specifically mention Costa Mesa.

“The lawsuit, filed Monday in San Francisco Superior Court, claimed the defendants’ marketing of disassembled but new magazine parts wrongly told customers that in some cases the products were legal rebuild or repair kids. Herrera argued that in several instances they weren’t legal at all.

“Magazines currently have a capped capacity of 10 rounds under state law.”

So S.F. is seeking to rob a company and effectively seize control of Costa Mesa’s gun show because a “repair kit” — not an actual weapon — was sold there. Will S.F. also insist that Internet instructions on how to use such repair kids be censored?

Actually, it’s San Francisco that violates state law and U.S. law. The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is explicit:

“A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”

“The people” who belong to “a free state” are all of us. Proper defense means not pea shooters, but at least semi-automatic weapons with magazines holding up to 30 bullets. Any more than that and the magazines jam.

And all of us, together, are the “militia.” To defend our homes, and our families and communities, we need more than BB guns. This basic human and constitutional right was affirmed by the 2008 Heller decision by the U.S. Supreme Court.

As to the California Constitution, it is clear in Article I, Section 3:

“The State of California is an inseparable part of the United States of America, and the United States Constitution is the supreme law of the land.”

That means the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution trumps any phony state law, or action by a far-left district attorney, violating the Second Amendment.

B&L Productions and the city of Costa Mesa should counter-sue the city of San Francisco, seeking millions in compensatory and punitive damages.

And let’s split up this monstrously large, 38 million-resident state. Let SF go alone and do its Pyongyang imitation. But leave the rest of us alone.