{"id":3672,"date":"2011-12-24T13:31:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-24T13:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2011\/12\/24\/calgunssaf-leave-lump-of-coal-in\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:17:10","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:17:10","slug":"calgunssaf-leave-lump-of-coal-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=3672","title":{"rendered":"CalGuns\/SAF Leave Lump Of Coal in California&#8217;s Stocking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16495,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/calgunsfoundation.org\\\/resources\\\/downloads\\\/category\\\/20-silvester-v-harris.htm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.cagunrights.org\\\/resources\\\/downloads\\\/category\\\/20-silvester-v-harris.htm&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>The CalGuns Foundation along with the Second Amendment Foundation dropped off a little gift yesterday for Kamala Harris and the California Department of Justice. They filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California challenging the ten-day waiting that California imposes before an existing gun owner make take possession of an another individual firearm.<\/p>\n<p>The individual plaintiffs in this suit are Jeff Sylvester, Michael Poeschl, and Brandon Combs. All three&nbsp; are owners of handguns registered in California&#8217;s AFS Database. Mr. Sylvester also holds one of those rare things &#8211; a California Carry License &#8211; and Mr. Combs holds a California Certificate of Eligibility. Both of these licenses are subject to real-time and ongoing background checks.<\/p>\n<p>The attorneys for the plaintiffs are Jason Davis and Don Kilmer (of <i>Nordyke<\/i> fame). <\/p>\n<p>The release on the suit from CalGuns is below:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>San Carlos, CA (December 23, 2011) \u2013 The Calguns Foundation has filed a federal lawsuit against the California Department of Justice and Attorney General Kamala Harris challenging the policy of requiring gun owners to wait at least 10 days before taking possession of an additional firearm. The case is entitled Jeff Silvester et. al. vs. Kamala Harris, et. al.<\/p>\n<p>The Calguns Foundation is joined in the lawsuit, filed today at the District of California Federal District Court in Fresno, by the Second Amendment Foundation and three individual plaintiffs. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe State has absolutely no reason to infringe the rights of California gun owners who already possess firearms when they buy another one,\u201d said Jason Davis who is the attorney for the plaintiffs. California currently requires the registration of handguns in California.  And, beginning January 2014, it will also require the registration of all newly-purchased rifles and shotguns. Notably, California keeps a current database of all residents who are prohibited by state or federal law from owning or possessing firearms. <\/p>\n<p>Individual plaintiffs Jeff Silvester, Michael Poeschl, and Brandon Combs each have firearms registered with the State of California. Mr. Combs and Mr. Silvester also have firearms licenses from the State that constitute ongoing background checks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn just about every other state in the U.S., I as a law-abiding gun owner could walk in and, after passing an instant national background check, walk out with a firearm to defend myself in my home,\u201d said Michael Poeschl. \u201cWhat\u2019s really frustrating is that California is one of the very few states that forces gun owners to register all handguns that they buy. If the State\u2019s database saying that I already lawfully own a gun isn\u2019t proof that I don\u2019t need a \u2018cooling-off\u2019 period, then what is?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a license to carry a loaded firearm across the State,\u201d noted Jeff Silvester. \u201cIt is ridiculous that I have to wait another 10 days to pick up a new firearm when I\u2019m standing there in the gun store lawfully carrying one the whole time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a collector, I submitted to a Live Scan background check and obtained a Certificate of Eligibility to Possess Firearms from the State of California at my own expense,\u201d said Brandon Combs. \u201cIn the Internet era, where every California gun dealer has a computer connected directly to the State\u2019s databases, there is no logical reason to force me to wait 10 days and make another trip simply because California doesn\u2019t want to acknowledge the Certificate that it issued to me. I have registered guns, and I have the State telling me that I can possess guns, but for some reason I can\u2019t exercise my constitutionally protected rights for another ten days? That\u2019s insane.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLaws that infringe on the right to purchase arms have to be more than just merely rational and must directly serve important governmental interests,\u201d added Hoffman. \u201cHere, the law is not just irrational but actually contradictory. We filed this case right before Christmas in the hopes that, by next Christmas, gun owners will not suffer this continuing infringement on their right to acquire firearms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A copy of the complaint and case filings can be downloaded at <a href=\"http:\/\/calgunsfoundation.org\/resources\/downloads\/category\/20-silvester-v-harris.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/calgunsfoundation.org\/resources\/downloads\/category\/20-silvester-v-harris.htm<\/a>l<\/i> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CalGuns Foundation along with the Second Amendment Foundation dropped off a little gift yesterday for Kamala Harris and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2409],"class_list":["post-3672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-sylvester-et-al-v-harrs-et-al"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7524,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3672\/revisions\/7524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}