As California’s ruling Democrats became increasingly anti-gun over the past decade, a strange thing was happening: Residents of the Golden State splurged on firearms, sparking a huge increase in firearms ownership, according to newly released data from the Justice Department.
In fact, according to DoJ figures, the number of gun owners has doubled in California over the past 10 years, even as Democratic gun control laws became more and more restrictive, the Washington Free Beacon reported.
Unbeknownst to most people living outside the state, California happens to maintain a unique database of known gun owners — a registry, if you will — called the Armed And Prohibited Persons System, or APPS, which “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,” the WFB reported.
In operation since 2006, the objective of the program is to identify and then confiscate guns from anyone who has been prohibited from owning a firearm under state law. Each year, the California Department of Justice sends the state Legislature a report that documents the number of people who have had their guns confiscated using the APPS.
That report also publicizes the number of people who are in the APPS, which is roughly the number of people in California who own guns.
http://thenationalsentinel.com/2019/03/09/after-a-huge-increase-in-gun-ownership-in-california-will-the-gun-sanctuary-rebellion-now-spread-to-the-golden-state/?mc_cid=8323a6860a&;mc_eid=acb1e1ec52
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