[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 6 (Thursday, January 11, 2024)]
[House]
[Page H65]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       CALIFORNIA GUN LAW BLOCKED

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, yet another California law forbidding 
residents of the State from carrying guns in most public areas has, 
thankfully, been blocked from taking effect, at least for now. This is 
good news for California, for other States that tend to copy our bad 
ideas, and for the constitutional right to bear arms.
  This is not, however, Governor Newsom's first unconstitutional attack 
on our Second Amendment, and it is certainly not going to be his last. 
The law, SB 2, would increase California's requirements for trying to 
lawfully obtain a concealed carry permit and also ban carrying 
concealed weapons in most public areas.
  Many county sheriff's offices throughout the State, including in 
northern California, opposed the law. Sutter and Yuba Counties made the 
decision to ``exercise [their] common sense and discretion to ensure 
the law is not enforced in a way that would violate the rights of our 
citizens.'' Good on them.
  As the Member of Congress representing Yuba and Sutter Counties, I 
applaud their decision to stand up against the State's unconstitutional 
attack on the Second Amendment. Law-abiding concealed carry permit 
holders are not the problem. It is the criminals that are the problem. 
Start going after the bad guys and leave the good guys alone.

  Mr. Speaker, other States that are watching this should not act like 
we do in California.

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