Golden State gun-grabbers took a new tact toward a firearm registry with some probing questions from insurance providers.
Like cats on countertops, leftist lawmakers see freedoms teetering on the edge of a slippery slope and can’t help but swat. So it was in the California legislature as Democratic Assembly Member Mike Gipson and coauthor Democratic state Sen. Catherine Blakespear introduced Section 2086 to the Insurance Code demanding providers ask renters and homeowners about their firearms.
The Firearms Policy Coalition drew attention to the legislative effort introduced Friday and summarized, “A bill has been filed in California that would require homeowner’s and renter’s insurance companies to ask how many guns people own and to report that information to the state…”
A bill has been filed in California that would require homeowner’s and renter’s insurance companies to ask how many guns people own and to report that information to the state: https://t.co/giLP0e6DKI pic.twitter.com/XsKgKtCdKX
— Firearms Policy Coalition (@gunpolicy) February 17, 2024
The specific language of Section 2086 stated in part, “In addition to existing regulations, an application for homeowners’ or renters’ insurance shall include questions regarding…Whether there are firearms kept in the household, including any accessory structures, and if so, how many,” and, “Whether the firearm, if any, is stored in a locked container in the home, including any accessory structures, while not in use.”
Questions would also probe whether firearms were kept in any vehicles on the property and, as it had been introduced, the requirement assured information reported to the state, “shall not contain any identifying information contained in a consumer’s application for homeowners’ or renters’ insurance, including, but not limited to, names, addresses, and telephone numbers, which shall remain confidential.”
Gipson and Blakespear’s proposed legislation was hardly the only insurance-based effort toward eroding Second Amendment rights in California as it was previously reported that San Jose became the first jurisdiction in the state, and country, to require firearm carriers to have liability insurance and pay an annual fee of $25.
“Certainly the Second Amendment protects every citizen’s right to own a gun,” San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo (D) said at a press conference in January where he asserted roughly $442 million in gun violence-related costs were incurred by the city on an annual basis. “It does not require taxpayers to subsidize that right.”
These legislative efforts followed the already controversial SB2, signed by California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) in September, that went into effect at the beginning of the year banning the carry of weapons for legal gun owners in public spaces deemed “sensitive.”
Categories included hospitals, playgrounds, casinos, stadiums, places of worship, banks and libraries, or as U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney had put it when he issued a temporary injunction stayed by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, “SB2 turns nearly every public place in California into a ‘sensitive place,’ effectively abolishing the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding and exceptionally qualified citizens to be armed and to defend themselves in public.”
Reactions to the legislation were more than skeptical as social media users decried the ongoing overreach from the government of California.
Names and addresses shall remain confidential?? Lolol they’re the people we DON’T want having the info
Also plus we’ve seen how their promises of confidentiality have worked in the past
— Jennifer Van Laar (@jenvanlaar) February 17, 2024
The state cannot co-opt private companies to do which they themselves cannot.
For the love of the good Lord. They love breaking the law.
— STX❤️Oregon (@stxpdx) February 17, 2024
I’m sure criminals will abide by this.
— nek (@Nekroph) February 17, 2024
Trying to legalize a gun registry. Total invasion of privacy.
— Katch22 (@kalyx2020) February 17, 2024
I hope the form includes a check box for Boating Accident. It’ll save a lot of time.
— EspírituLibre (@EspirituLibre76) February 17, 2024
The correct answer is 0……0 guns brought to you by the acronym FAFO. pic.twitter.com/mYf89AkzQn
— Casey Strawn (@CaseyStrawn707) February 17, 2024
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Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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