Gun Policy News
Gun Group Blasts 'Anti-Gun Prejudice' in California
21 January 2003
Cybercast News Service
A new state law in California requires handgun buyers to pass a 30-question written test and pay a $25 fee for a Handgun Safety Certificate, which is good for five years. A gun rights group is outraged, saying the new law amounts to a "literacy test" for would-be gun owners.
"It is an outrage that California law now treats gun buyers in much the same way that African-Americans were treated in the South to prevent them from voting," said Alan Gottlieb, the founder of... (GunPolicy.org)