# Newsom: CA to pass Texas-style law targeting gun sellers **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [December 12, 2021, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newsom-ca-to-pass-texas-style-law-targeting-gun-sellers/955930 "2021-12-12T05:17:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 29
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2021, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newsom-ca-to-pass-texas-style-law-targeting-gun-sellers/955930/29 "2021-12-13T18:27:21Z")
Gun control is weakening as an issue for Democrats anyway, because so many Democrats have purchased guns in the past few years. The number of Americans who favor stricter gun laws has dropped from 60% in 2019 to 53% today. Most of that decline came from Democrats, where support for gun control increases has dropped from 86% to 80%. In the meantime, Californians are responding to idiotic progressive DA’s and their pro-violence policies by arming up: > **[California sees sharp spike in gun ownership. Why new buyers are arming...](https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article249981454.html)** > > One activist said she’s worried about the Proud Boys and the police. Here’s how many guns Californians recently purchased. > [@](#): > > About 1.17 million new guns were registered in California in 2020, and as many as 369,000 people went through the state’s firearms background check process for the first time, according to [newly released state data filed in federal court](https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/firearmspolicycoalition/pages/5381/attachments/original/1615844436/Miller_v_Becerra_Response_to_2-26_Order.pdf?1615844436). The numbers are the latest evidence that Californians went on a gun-buying spree last year. Handgun sales were up 65% in 2020 over 2019, and 2021 looks to be even bigger. The longer violence runs out of control in the big Democratic cities, the more Democrats living in them are going to buy guns. And that will degrade the support for gun control even more. ‘Defund the police’ should have been called ‘Arm the people’, because that’s the effect it had. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newsom-ca-to-pass-texas-style-law-targeting-gun-sellers/955930)._