Maybe he can help change the law so that I can buy a Kel-Tec Sub-2000 here in California…

He has three guns and that's an "arsenal?"

That's not a arsenal. THIS [pointing to my gunlocker] is an arsenal!

I think Jerry Brown honestly believes, "that you can't have the First without the Second." He's said that on several occasions.

He's still a Democrat. He's still a Statist, and you can call him a "Collectivist" if you want, but he genuinely believes in the 2nd Amendment.

Unfortunately, he also believes in "reasonable gun control." That, I agree, needs work.

Wow, if three guns is an "arsenal" I wonder what they would call my place...

A democrat owning guns? the NRA tells me such a thing is impossible.

Brown has a cryptolibertarian streak. He's had cordial conversations with, and thumbs-up greetings to, local NRA organizers running community booths.

His landmark pro-2A brief was in fact written by himself and not handed down to the lower ranks. Gunrights lawyer Don Kates (of counsel to NRA-retained gun law firm) knew Brown from law school and contacted him and explained the issues, and reported that he is very able lawyer.

Beside this, (former) AG Brown also restrained the Calif. Dept of Justice rogue Firearms Division (downsized into a Bureau by him in 2007) from wildly asserting non-law via regulatory overkill. Under prior AG Bill Lockyer, DOJ Firearms staffers harassed numerous legitimate gun owners and sportsmen over perfectly legal conduct/firearms. During the Brown administration, however, several troublesome staffers - including past Director Randy Rossi, the ever-egregious Special Agent Iggy Chinn, and Deputy AG Alison Merrilees - have left DOJ. (It's an open question how quickly they moved before the screen door hit 'em on their rear.) Since then, the rightsized Bureau of Firearms has mostly concentrated on keeping guns out of criminals' and parolees hands thru the successful statewide Armed Prohibited Persons program - instead of trying to reregulate trivialities regarding the shape of grips on rifles.

Now that Brown is no longer AG, and the egregious Kamala Harris is, we are already noticing the (unfavorable) difference.

Bill Wiese
San Jose CA