{"id":4943,"date":"2016-08-12T10:56:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T17:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/?p=4943"},"modified":"2025-11-20T10:58:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T18:58:51","slug":"gunmageddon-restrictions-face-referenda-drive-vaccines-fight-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/2016\/08\/12\/gunmageddon-restrictions-face-referenda-drive-vaccines-fight-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Gunmageddon&#8217; restrictions face referenda drive &#038; vaccines fight continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cs-single-post-share\">\n<div class=\"theiaStickySidebar\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cs-single-post-content\">\n<div id=\"ib-68203366-6\" dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>If the signing of seven\u00a0<a>new firearms restrictions<\/a>\u00a0last month was the &#8220;gunmageddon,&#8221; as California gun rights activists put it, then this is the scene where they\u00a0<a>suit up in preparation\u00a0<\/a>for a dangerous mission to stop the giant asteroid hurtling toward Earth.<\/p>\n<p>They recently\u00a0<a>filed referenda<\/a>\u00a0in hopes of overturning all of the new laws, and the petition drive to qualify those measures for the ballot kicks off today. If they can collect nearly 366,000 signatures for each referendum by the end of the September (or\u00a0Oct. 20, for one that was\u00a0<a>filed later<\/a>), the laws will likely go before voters in November 2018, suspending them for at least two years.<\/p>\n<p>Among the new laws, which would otherwise take effect next\u00a0Jan. 1, are a required background check for ammunition purchases, a prohibition on the possession of magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds, a ban on semi-automatic rifles with magazines that can be detached with the push of a button, and registration of homemade firearms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IN OTHER LEGAL NEWS:<\/strong>\u00a0Opponents of last year&#8217;s\u00a0<a>controversial law<\/a>\u00a0mandating vaccines for schoolchildren, which took effect on\u00a0July 1, are in a federal courtroom in San Diego at\u00a01:30 p.m.\u00a0seeking a preliminary injunction against the rule while their broader lawsuit \u2013 claiming it was unconstitutional to repeal the state&#8217;s religious and personal exemptions for vaccinations \u2013 proceeds. Their efforts to\u00a0<a>reverse the law<\/a>\u00a0via referendum and\u00a0<a>recall its author<\/a>, Sen.\u00a0<strong>Richard Pan<\/strong>, D-Sacramento, have already failed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the signing of seven\u00a0new firearms restrictions\u00a0last month was the &#8220;gunmageddon,&#8221; as California gun rights activists put it,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","darknews-slider-full":"","darknews-featured":"","darknews-medium":"","darknews-medium-square":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"News MoLo","author_link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/author\/admin\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/News\/government\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Government<\/a>","tag_info":"Government","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4944,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943\/revisions\/4944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}