California "unsafe handgun" rules enjoined

While the CA Unsafe Handgun Act "Roster" requirements for LCI (loaded chamber indicator), MDI (magazine disconnect, and microstamping (unavailable technology) were all killed, the original Rostering requirement including filing fee & a drop test for each model still exist.

The PI has a 14 day stay to allow for appeal.

Even if everything holds on day 15 with appeal, no en banc, etc. it'll still take quite a bit of time for companies to get additional handguns Rostered:
- there are only a few certified test labs;
- CA DOJ may take its own sweet time on Roster filings - heck, even
people that paper their guns when moving to CA don't see results
for months.

DOJ may still even hold that trivial manufacturing changes (different materials, even different origins of rivets/screws) for a given model require re-drop testing, fees and resubmission to Roster.

Bill Wiese
San Jose CA

Bill, thanks for the clarification. I had rather hoped that the whole "Pistols approved for Peons" structure, from prohibitions to rosters had gone, but we have to go with incrementalism.

I am not an attorney so correct me if I am wrong but this is a preliminary order and the case is still ongoining. If the judge would go back and reread McDonald and apply the common use test relating to banning fire arms in common use for lawfull purposes throughput the Country this entire bag of excrement would go away.

Peter Zukowski
Casper, Wy