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SAF SUES CALIFORNIA DOJ
OVER FAILURE OF ONLINE
REGISTRATION SYSTEM
Th e Second Amendment
Foundation (SAF) has fi led
a suit against the California
Department of Justice and
Attorney General Xavier Becerra,
seeking an injunction against the
agency for failing and refusing to
establish a properly functioning
internet-based fi rearms
registration system.
Joining SAF in this legal action
are the Calguns Foundation,
Firearms Policy Coalition,
Firearms Policy Foundation and
three private citizens. Th e lawsuit
was fi led in Shasta County
Superior Court.
“We’re suing because
California DOJ’s Firearms
Application Reporting System
(CFARS) broke down during
the deadline week for people
to register their fi rearms in
accordance with new state laws,”
said SAF founder and executive
vice president Alan M Gottlieb.
“For a whole week the system was
largely inaccessible. People who
wanted to comply with the law
simply couldn’t and now they face
becoming criminals because they
couldn’t do what the law requires.”
Th e lawsuit notes that during
the week of June 25th to
30th, which was the statutory
registration deadline, the CFARS
system was inaccessible and
inoperable on a variety of web
browsers across the state. Many
users who were able to initially
log in and begin the process could
not fi nish because the system
crashed, obliterating all of their
work. Th e CFARS system was
substantially underfunded and
understaff ed from its inception,
Gottlieb noted.
“It’s like a bad version of
Catch-22,” Gottlieb observed.
“Th e government required
registration by the deadline, but
the online registration failed and
people couldn’t register. Th ey’re
required to obey the law, but the
system broke down, making it
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impossible to obey the law. Now
these people face the possibility
of being prosecuted. We simply
cannot abide that kind of
incompetence.”
“Attorney general Xavier
Becerra seems to care about
everything but the constitution,
the rule of law, and law-abiding
California gun owners,” said
FPC President Brandon Combs.
“If Becerra spent as much time
doing his job as he does talking
about his pet crusades against the
federal government, hundreds of
thousands of Californians would
not be in legal jeopardy right
now.”
“Predictably the state of
California wants to take guns
away from the law abiding. In
this instance they couldn’t even
build a working system to respect
gun owners’ rights,” explained
CGF chairman Gene Hoff man.
“We simply want to allow those
who want to comply with the law
to have more time with a working
registration system.”
SAF and its partners want
the court to prevent DOJ from
enforcing the law to allow
individual plaintiff s and other
citizens in the same situation to
register their legally-possessed
fi rearms through a “reliable and
functional registration system.”
About
The Second Amendment
Foundation (www.saf.org)
is the nation’s oldest and
largest tax-exempt education,
research, publishing and legal
action group focusing on
the Constitutional right and
heritage to privately own and
possess firearms. Founded
in 1974, the Foundation has
grown to more than 650,000
members and supporters and
conducts many programs
designed to bett er inform the
public about the consequences
of gun control.
Hornady wins 2018
Industry Choice
Awards Ammunition
of the Year
Hornady, an industry leader
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Ammunition of the Year at
the Industry Choice Awards
2018.
Th e company received the
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“We’re honoured to be
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