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Torquemada055, I can relate to your comment. I spent 28 years in that "state" in Sacramento. My house backed up to a grade school yard. They passed a law that Weapons were prohibited within 1000 feet of a school, I knew I was in deep $hit! I had a C&R license, registered with the Sheriff and it was just a matter of time with Fienstein and Boxer hanging upside down from the rafters before I was a target, and perhaps an example. I got out, moved to Utah, gun control here is considered 'a steady aim'. If you check the latest BATF pub on Published State Firearms Laws, you will find that Utah has 3 and 3/4 pages of laws dealing primarily with who cannot own a firearm, California has "64" pages of laws covering everything imaginable. They (CA) do not want a law abiding citizen to have any means available for protection. It is generally accepted that the police have no responsibility whatsoever to protect anyone. They respond to crimes committed. I was here for about 6 months, took the class and applied for my concealed carry permit, got it in about two weeks. Utah has a 'Must Issue' policy, if you are clean, you get it. Try that $hit in Kalifornia and see wher it gets you. In my opinion, California is on the verge of becoming a communist, or at the very least, a Police State. During the years that I lived in that hell hole, not a single law was passed that helped me, all of them were a result of buyoffs by big business shoving money under the table to get laws enacted for their own agenda. We, my wife and I, both have children, grandchildren and great grandchildren living there but I cringe at the thought of going back there to visit them. It is a really sad situation, but that is how repulsed I am at the policies of that state. The county that I live in here in Utah is just over 2,460 sq. miles, has 1 highway patrolman, and 1 sheriff and 2 deputies. We leave the doors and windows open at night to cool the house down, rarely lock the cars, and if I want, I go out front and shoot away, no one cares, it is common up here. Consider this if you decide to move. Sure, Salt Lake City has the same problems as any other big city, but not at the same rate. I'm running off at the mouth here, I just feel really strong about the ignorance of the CA lawmakers, the most stringent gun laws in the nation, the highest crime rate. Someone needs to face the facts!