More California gun control: Could it lead to recalls? [View all]

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San Francisco Chronicle / 10-1-13

Gun-rights advocates are ready to launch a recall attempt aimed at some of California's most vulnerable Democratic state lawmakers - and the party's supermajority hold on the Legislature - if Gov. Jerry Brown signs some of the dozen-plus gun-control bills sitting on his desk.

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Brown wouldn't be a recall target, organizers said. The costs are too great - perhaps $2 million - to gather enough signatures to put a statewide recall on the ballot.

Instead, gun-rights activists are focused on legislators who voted for the gun bills before Brown, a list that includes nearly every Democrat in Sacramento.

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Gun-rights activists won't charge into battle over just any of the gun laws sitting on Brown's desk. But a few - like AB374, which would ban the sale or possession of any semiautomatic rifle capable of holding a detachable ammunition magazine - would be equivalent "to an erasure of the Second Amendment," said Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, R-Twin Peaks (San Bernardino County), a Tea Party favorite who is at the vanguard of the recall effort and is running for governor next year.

FULL STORY: http://www.sfgate.com/politics/joegarofoli/article/Gun-limits-could-lead-to-recalls-of-legislators-4886126.php

Do we gamble our supermajority based on threats by assault weapons advocates?

Yes. Screw them.