CA - Have a foreigner in your home? All firearms may need to be locked up

RicInOR · Oct 16, 2013

"WHAT IF THEYRE UNDOCUMENTED FIREARMS? Live With a Foreigner Who Doesnt Have a Green Card? You Must Keep Your Guns Locked Up. Thats what the newly enacted Cal. Penal Code § 25135, just signed by Gov. Brown, would do (on pain of criminal punishment). - via Glenn
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I don't read the California Penal Code, I probably wouldn't understand it.

Some things come to mind, in addition to some of the examples cited in the article.
- What CA does, tends to come to other states -
- You could be married to an alien, who does not yet have their green card
- You could have adopted someone into your home, ....
- You may have your spouses parents living with you ...
- You may have rented rooms to a student ...

What I didn't know and see in the article is Federal law, 18 U.S.C. § 922(d)(5)(B), (g)(5)(B),
I work with a number of foreign nationals - from our India or Taiwan branches. We are always looking for fun things to do while they are here. The key phrase is "Possessing." So I guess we can't take them to the range. Now I'll have to have a conversation with our HR/Legal department. Wonder if there would be other things we can't take them to? - like a Monster Truck Jam.

deadeye · Oct 16, 2013

This would be no different then letting someone shoot your NFA or letting a kid shoot your firearms. They do not possess it, you are there and still in control of/own it.

mkwerx · Oct 16, 2013

If the person is here legally - on a visa, I don't see any issue and I don't think California's law would hold water under a constitutional test. If the law only targets people harboring illegal aliens, then fine. Someone here on any sort of visa, or with resident alien status, etc should be no problem.

And F california and their BS laws anyway. Just sayin.