Can someone explain the CA gun ban that takes effect 1 Jan 00?

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Does it include AR-15s? Are pre-ban sales allowed?

-- Please explain (@ .), November 18, 1999

Answers

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19991118/od/handguns_1.html

Handguns Dramatically Increase Suicide Risk

BOSTON (Reuters) - In the week after buying a handgun, the purchaser was 57 times more likely than the general population to commit suicide, according to a study of California handgun buyers published in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine.

The study, which followed 238,292 people who bought a handgun in California in 1991, found that men were four times more likely to commit suicide in the year after they purchased a handgun than men in general.

Women, who bought just 12 percent of guns in California, faced a suicide risk 16 times higher than the rest of the female population during the first year of gun ownership, the study found.

The report found that higher suicide risk persists for at least six years after a gun is bought.

``The purchase of a handgun is associated with substantial changes in the risk of violent death,'' said the research team, led by Dr. Garen J. Wintemute of the University of California at Davis.

Among legal handgun buyers, suicide by any means was the leading cause of death during the first year of ownership, accounting for 24.5 percent of deaths, compared with 1.7 percent of all deaths among adult Californians in 1991 and 1992.

-- CD (not@here.com), November 18, 1999.


Biggest crock I ever read!

-- idon'tbuyit (what@crock.bs), November 18, 1999.

idon'tbuyit- I have posted the above to it's own [new] thread in order to solicit other opinions on the subject.

-- CD (not@here.com), November 18, 1999.

I wonder if it occured to any of these rocket scientist that a person who is suicidal will naturally go out and procure the most efficient means to accomplish their goal? They don't bother to break the "within a year " down to within fifteen minutes. Some of them may have lasted nearly a year, went and bought the gun, then didn't have the nerve to finish the job till something pushed them over the edge.

-- Nikoli Krushev (doomsday@y2000.com), November 18, 1999.

My dear mr.@

Sir the politicans of Kalifornia have passed into law a total ban on so called assult wepons. If you have registered one with them in the previous years, they'll be by to get it in person. If you are caught with a banned assult rifle in your pocession, you have committed a 3rd drgree feloney. No grand father clauses on the AR-15...It is one of the named rifles.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Shakey~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

-- Shakey (in_a_bunker@forty.feet), November 18, 1999.



Don't turn in your gun. Screw them and the jackass they rode in on. Have your gun burgled and file a report with the sheriff.

-- gunbearer (getagun@milita.com), November 19, 1999.

Rather than filing a false police report, sell it to someone in Nevada, say. Your neighbor can sign illegibly and you get some address on the bill oof sale you do up.......

Niht train

-- jes a 2nd amnmendment footballer (nighttr@in.lane), November 19, 1999.


CD, I posted this on the other thread, but will add it here for those who need it:

AP story in my morning paper today: "Gun-related death rate falls 21 percent in four years." CDC says gun deaths have dropped to their lowest levels in 30 years -- 21 percent decline in deaths, 41 percent decline in injuries. "Experts" cite tougher gun control laws, booming economy, better police work and (last, of course -- this *is* AP) gun safety courses. The study, 1993-97, looked at all ER gunshot wounds, whether accidental, intentional, or self-inflicted. Bet you won't see *that* story in the New England Journal of Medicine.

-- Cash (cash@andcarry.com), November 19, 1999.


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