Final July, when California Gov. Gavin Newsom was gifted a handgun by a podcast host, many gun homeowners needed to chuckle. Newsom was, on the time, making an attempt to color himself as a Second Modification supporter, regardless of a complete profession of making an attempt to ban each form of firearm he may.
Gun homeowners noticed proper via it, in fact, and lots of at the moment are laughing at current studies that due to the legal guidelines he has foisted upon Californians, Newsom nonetheless hasn’t been capable of get the gun house.
As background, Newsom was given a handgun by podcast host Shawn Ryan. And Newsom was thrilled with the California-compliant Sig Sauer P365 X-Macro Ryan gave him, saying, “I gotta report this reward, man. That is too cool. The truth that you’d give me this.”
In line with a New York Put up report, Newsom filed his obligatory assertion of financial curiosity on March 18, the place he listed the pistol and wrote within the feedback that the gun is “at the moment held by a licensed firearm seller, and never within the Governor’s possession.”
To really receive the gun, Newsom must have it transferred from a licensed seller in Tennessee to a certified seller in California, full the paperwork, endure background checks and wait 10 days. Newsom would additionally need to move the Firearm Security Certificates check with a rating of no less than 75% and buy an authorized lockbox or different Division of Justice-approved security machine.
The scenario is so ironic that the gun-rights group Residents Committee for the Proper to Hold and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) issued a information launch saying it’s “solely justice” that Newsom has been entrapped by his personal gun-control legal guidelines.
“Gov. Newsom may use this as a studying expertise,” CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb mentioned. “That’s, if he really desires the pistol. Final yr, he advised Ryan that he’s not likely ‘anti-gun,’ though every part he has mentioned and achieved in workplace has definitely pointed in that path.”
Gottlieb then chided Newsom, badgering the governor about why it’s taking him so lengthy to get his beloved pistol house to California.
“We’re starting to surprise if Gavin is apprehensive he won’t move the firearms security check, or get via the background examine,” Gottlieb continued. “What’s the holdup, Governor Newsom? Simply take into consideration the longer term. You possibly can marketing campaign for the White Home like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, telling everybody you’re a gun proprietor, after which you may say you have been handled like a prison, the best way each different California citizen is handled after they wish to buy a gun.”
Ultimately, Gottlieb despatched one final jab Newsom’s method in regards to the Sig he was gifted however has by no means taken possession of.
“C’mon, Gavin,” Gottlieb concluded. “It’s time to get your gat.”
