https://www.yahoo.com/news/california-city-approves-1st-us-064840915.html
Law has been passed to require the purchase of liability insurance if you own a firearm.
I saw a click bait article about this but didn’t open it. Can you imagine the profitability on gun insurance. The number of guns vs. the statistically microscopic number of injuries???
A select few will make a pretty penny for sure. And by select few I am speaking of the ones collecting the premiums, not the ones that receive the payouts from a suit……
Isn’t this the equivalent of a poll tax? Fees and insurance to execute a constitutional freedom. The article I originally read said that the fees would only be imposed on those financially able to pay. If you are poor, no fees. I guess that means no charges for not paying the fees whenever they bust a gangbanger that doesn’t have a legit source of income. The way I am reading it is this is only going to be enforced on legal/law abiding gunowners.
ETA: This is coming from the same groups of people that say requiring ID to vote is wrong. The actual “right to vote” isn’t even a constitutional right like the 2A. This is undeniable since the dems have actually proposed legislation (Jessie Jackson Jr.) seeking to amend the constitution. For proof I submit a democrat website (see below) stating there is no constitutional “right to vote” but that it only provides for nondiscrimination in voting on the basis of race, sex, and age in the 16th, 19th, and 26th amendments. If the “right to vote” was already constitutional, dems wouldn’t have pushed for it to be added to the constitution.
What a country we have. Little tyrants can enact a law that is clearly unconstitutional and severely burdensome to only the law abiding, and yet the only way to fight it is to have millions of dollars wrapped up in attorney fees over a decade span in the hopes that the supreme court (whatever flavor they represent at the time) sides with you.
Yes it’s al kinds of unconstitutional, but that’s never mattered much to petty tyrants.
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I’m sure this will be the key to stopping gun violence.
“I’d open the trunk on dat mo-fo, scept it wud jack my insurance”
Absolutely. Statistically, firearms are one of the safer items to own. This is clearly just more bureaucratic obstacles for gun owners, and has nothing to do with what’s right.
I can’t wait for All State to save California from mayhem now…
Can we make Muslims pay for religion insurance? To cover injury if they become radicalized?
Or journalists…
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Especially since most of the damage and incidents leading to claims would be people with out insurance.
Start passing laws that you have to have a gun or you have to pay a security tax because you are unable to effectively defend yourself.
Exactly. Let’s apply this approach fairly.
No thank you, have all the insurance I need. Get phucked.
Let’s see if Cali passes a law making firearm insurance illegal. Didn’t someone try that already??
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Will they classify firearms like they do dogs? Certain types/breeds cost more on insurance? Will companies refuse to sell insurance depending on the type of weapons you have? I don’t think Esurance or Progressive will insure you if you own pit bulls or a pit bull mix.
NYS DFS went after the reinsurance companies that were backing the NRA products, and provided the NRA’s professional insurances and their banking relationships.
SJ gov’t does not care if it’s ruled unconstitutional, it’s performative wokeism and then they can use it as a lever for fundraising in the next cycle.
California has been undermining, with the help of the courts, state preemption for years. This is more of their anti-gun strategy to make owning guns too costly. Plus we wind up with a hodge podge of different gun laws in different cities and counties. What’s legal in one jurisdiction, is illegal in another and pity the poor soul who doesn’t know. Poor people don’t get guns, they’re only for people who live in Beverly Hills or at least that’s where it’s heading.
Are the thugs who commit most of the shootings with illegally obtained guns going to buy insurance for their illegal guns?
It’s not about them. It’s about you.
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