Comment by AnonymousCoward

August 25, 2009 @ 3:08 pm

That’s… interesting. Among other things, I’m fairly sure Richmond Rod and Gun Club (site of a fairly large and popular action range, and recently site of a GSSF match) is in Richmond.

Comment by Derek

August 25, 2009 @ 3:11 pm

That’s flippin’ crazy. WTFM8.

Comment by Davidwhitewolf

August 25, 2009 @ 3:13 pm

Yep, members of RR&G are being warned to disassemble their mags as we speak.

Comment by Derek

August 25, 2009 @ 3:16 pm

I would argue, however, that once it’s disassembled, it’s no longer a “feeding device.”

Comment by Derek

August 25, 2009 @ 3:17 pm

Wewps. You beat me to it.

Comment by Kristopher

August 25, 2009 @ 5:49 pm

Or even better yet, avoid mother fucking California.

The drive through Central Oregon and western Nevada is rather nice.

Comment by D.W. Drang

August 25, 2009 @ 11:28 pm

I have been contemplating the I90-I82/I84 route–per Google Maps, adds 150 miles, but only one hour.

Actually, Google Maps recommends taking I5 south, but splitting off on CA89 (Shasta/Lassen highway)north of Redding. Just over 13 hours from Kent, they claim.

Comment by Myles

August 26, 2009 @ 5:00 am

“Or even better yet, avoid mother fucking California.”

Damn good travel advice, that.

Comment by Ride Fast

August 26, 2009 @ 6:29 am

Thanks for posting that DWW, I was totally unaware of that Richmond diktat. I haven’t seen it done yet anywhere, but these ridiculous ammo capacity bans would be easy to “fudge” just to harass some gun owner.

Any ten round .45 mag would hold more than ten .25 caliber rounds, for example. Yeah, you’d beat it in court but that’s not the point of harassment.

Comment by Rivrdog

August 26, 2009 @ 7:09 am

One other warning on that Lassen route: it takes you through some beautiful forests which just happen to be full of Mexican Mafia MJ farms. If you break down, STAY ON THE HIGHWAY! Do NOT pull off to get help from the locals.

Fill your tank in Lakeview on the way down, and Susanville on the way back.

Comment by Mom

August 26, 2009 @ 7:13 am

D.W. Drang that’s a beautiful drive through Shasta/Lassen. We’ve done it in 11 hours and we’re old farts ! Check the conditions though, friends drove that way to Reno a couple weeks ago and the whole area was ablaze through there.

Comment by Ride Fast

August 26, 2009 @ 8:06 am

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Comment by Ride Fast

August 26, 2009 @ 8:08 am

D.W.Drang - “I have been contemplating the I90-I82/I84 route–per Google Maps, adds 150 miles, but only one hour.”

I don’t know what your driving but I want one ;-p

Comment by DirtCrashr

August 26, 2009 @ 9:23 am

I don’t drive the East Bay anymore, not if I can help it, I go around the bottom and out. 580/680 - flip a coin for Altamont and the scenery of Grant Line Road, or the painful hissy of Vacaville/Davis.
OTOH we were forced to go to Alameda and visit the Hornet. Her 4-inch shore guns could certainly take care of some problems in Berkeley or across the Bay - remember, if you can see it (from the Bridge) you can hit it…

Comment by Chris Byrne

August 26, 2009 @ 4:01 pm

Any officer who attempts to get you for violating CA firearms laws, when the firearms are legal at the point of origin and destination of your peaceable journey, would themselves be violating federal and CA state law.

This doesn’t stop them from doing it, it just means you’d get the charges dismissed and your property back.

Cops in NYC have been pulling the same crap for years, for people traveling through JFK and Laguardia with firearms in their checked baggage.

They’re being sued out the ass for doing it, and they’re going to lose badly, because the FOPA is explicit, and clearly applies to the states.

That doesn’t cure you of the hassle though.

Comment by Davidwhitewolf

August 26, 2009 @ 4:06 pm

True, but there are plenty of examples of California gun owners posted on the Calguns board who had their rifles/mags/whatever unlawfully confiscated by local cops and paid several thousand dollars in attorney’s fees to get their property back, or many thousands of dollars fighting idiot prosecutors who mistakenly thought they had a career-making “Assault Weapons” case. In some of those latter cases, the gun owners got charges dismissed as part of a settlement, but never got their property returned.