California Testing Requirements

[TominCA]

You hear a lot about the CA testing requirements - But what are they? I think I know most of them and the list is below:

6 guns submitted for samples

1) All guns are dropped from 39.5 inches to concrete with loaded primer - in different positions. If one fires the lot is rejected.

2) Three guns are selected for endurance firing of 600 rounds each.
A) If any of the 3 fail in the first 20 rounds the group is rejected.
B) The guns are then fired for 580 more rounds with cooling/cleaning and screw tightening at each 50 rounds. If any on of the 3 fails more than 6 times the lot is rejected. If any one cracks or breaks the lot is rejected.

Police weapons are exempt from this test and LEOs may buy non-approved firearms.

There are also configuration requirements like loaded chamber indicator, safety, etc.

I'm not judging this either way - just think its interesting.

[Micha2u]

I just read your posting and it made me curious about the rules and regs. that are in play for CA so I went to calguns.net to look around. I came away just shaking my head (and not in a good way).

What is it about "...shall not be infringed." they don't understand?

[TominCA]

CA government can be wierd (and often is) the law was supposedly to protect people from injury - for example some hadguns will discharge if dropped and there actually are (voluntary) manufacturer's standards on that - I have dropped loaded guns before, and a friend of mine dropeed an old Ruger SA during a robbery and it discharged, so guns that don't go off when dropped are a good thing.

The rest of it is obstensibly designed to eliminate "Saturday Night Specials" because cheap guns kill people more frequently (or better?) than expensive guns (Huh?)

In reality the group that wanted to ban guns compromised with the groups that did not and the result is this wierd law - sort of like the committee that tried to design a horse and ended up with a camel

There are some good things about California, but unfortunately the government isn't one of them.

[muggsy]

Chip, chip, chip.