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Tyranny: Calif. Farmer Thrown In Jail After Complying With Gun Registration Law

It is common noesis amid gun owners that California has imposed a plethora of strict gun command laws that appear to be more nearly discouraging lawful gun ownership than preventing offense and violence.

At times, it can seem as though California'south laws are designed to trap law-abiding gun owners with skilful intentions and transform them into "dangerous" felons overnight, even if they try to comply with the myriad of laws implemented by the country.

That appears to be the case for a rather prominent farmer in the Bakersfield area, who was arrested and had his dwelling house raided by law enforcement agents after he attempted to comply with a state mandate to register his firearms and firearm accessories, according to KGET.

Jeffrey Scott Kirschenmann, CEO of Kirschenmann Farms, LLC — a chief supplier of the potatoes used by FritoLay to make potato fries — was hit with a dozen felony gun charges by a district attorney on May 17 following a horrifying surprise raid of his home in April.

That raid past agents of the California Department of Justice was launched after Kirschenmann attempted to annals what the state has deemed an "illegally modified firearm" through the country's online self-registration website.

The raid uncovered a dozen firearms, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, ii suppressors and what was described as a "multi-outburst trigger activator."

He was arrested and afterward released on $150,000 bail.

Kirschenmann is facing 12 felony charges for possession of "assault rifles," the suppressors and the trigger mechanism.

Kirschenmann's problems began when he electronically submitted pictures of an "illegally modified AR-15-style firearm" equally part of his good faith endeavor to comply with a state law which requires the registration of "assault-style weapons" past the end of June.

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Joe Pilkington, a retired Kern Canton Sheriff's Office commander who is a courtroom-recognized firearms adept, couldn't speak specifically about the Kirschenmann case with KGET, merely he shed some light on the issue of California'south confusing and ofttimes changing gun control laws.

"Just in the last few years, there have been lots of changes in gun laws," Pilkington said. "Making an effort, a good-faith effort, to comply with these really complicated laws should count for something."

That remark was obviously a reference to the Kirschenmann instance, which should serve every bit a warning to any other California gun owners who have considered registering their soonhoped-for "illegal" firearms with the country through the state'due south self-registration website.

Rather than run the risk of being found in violation of the police force while trying to brand good on those laws, as appears to accept happened with Kirschenmann, Pilkington suggested gun owners trying to do what the country considers the "correct" thing to go through a federally-licensed firearms dealer instead.

"There is this self-registration awarding on the Section of Justice website, but information technology may exist meliorate to talk to an FFL — someone who has a license, to talk through whatever these complications are," he said.

Those dealers tin aid explain some of the ins-and-outs of the complex registration laws, and while some may report potential violations of which they become aware to state authorities, that risk is likely substantially lower than simply showing the state "here are my 'illegal' guns for registration."

While we here at Conservative Tribune aren't ones to encourage police force breaking, we nevertheless must remind anybody that "registration leads to confiscation" — sometimes pretty speedily, as in this case — and is something that should be avoided at all costs, if possible, for gun-owning supporters of the 2d Amendment in an anti-gun state with unconstitutional laws.

Ben Marquis is a writer who identifies equally a constitutional bourgeois/libertarian. He has written virtually current events and politics for The Western Journal since 2014. His focus is on protecting the Get-go and Second Amendments.

Ben Marquis has written on current events and politics for The Western Journal since 2014. He reads voraciously and writes about the news of the twenty-four hour period from a bourgeois-libertarian perspective. He is an advocate for a more constitutional government and a staunch defender of the Second Amendment, which protects the rest of our natural rights. He lives in Little Stone, Arkansas, with the beloved of his life also every bit four dogs and four cats.

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