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California Firearms History

admin · 2026-03-16T23:04:17.923Z

California's firearms history is one of those subjects that should be required reading for anyone who wants to argue about gun laws — on either side of the fence. Most people enter that conversation somewhere around 1994 and act like the story starts there. It doesn't. California's first gun control law came in 1854 and had nothing to do with violence in the gold camps. The legislature passed a law prohibiting Chinese immigrants from carrying firearms. This was explicit racial policy — the s...

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California Firearms History

No state has done more to shape the national debate over gun regulation than California. That's not a compliment or a criticism — it's just the fact on the ground. For the last six decades, California has been where gun laws get written, challenged,

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