California Saw Huge Increase in Gun Ownership Over Last Decade Despite Strict Gun Laws
Do you think if you tell people they can’t have something, then that’s what they want to have?
Despite some of the nation’s toughest laws, the number of gun owners in California has more than doubled over the past ten years, according to new data released Friday by the state Department of Justice.
The state of California maintains a one-of-a-kind database of known gun owners, the Armed and Prohibited Persons System (APPS). APPS combines data on firearm transactions from two different state sources, the Dealer Record of Sale (DROS) database which tracks all transfers made by gun dealers and the Automated Firearms System (AFS) which includes the subset of guns the state requires to be registered, to compile a list of all individuals who legally purchased or were transferred a firearm in California.
Operated continuously since 2006, the program’s goal is to identify and seize the weapons of individuals prohibited from owning a gun under state law.
And certainly, there are even more people who owned a gun before 2006 and still do.
This just another reason on why the Boss & I do not go camping! Grumpy
