AP Poll Shows Dems Not As Worried
About Threat to Gun Rights They Don't Value

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Our friends at the Associated Press have polled about 2500 Americans in an effort to take their collective temperature on the level of security they feel in some of their most fundamental civil rights, They include freedom of speech, religion, voting rights and — you guessed it — the right to keep and bear arms.

The non-news here is that the Democrats who were polled are largely dismissive of any perceived threats to their gun rights in the current climate while Republicans surveyed in the AP-NORC America 250 poll were less sanguine. Of course, you'd expect those who find less value in the right to keep and bear arms to be less worried about efforts to limit that right.

And for those of you who haven't been paying attention, those efforts are alive and well and progressing in almost all of the usual suspect states. According the Grok's AI gnome miners, here's a selection of anti-gun measures enacted in the last year or so

California:

• Banned the sale of GLOCK pistols
• Required sale/transfer records to include purchaser acknowledgment of confirming possession of all owned firearms in the last 30 days
• Expanded definition of "firearm" for lost or stolen reporting to include frames, receivers, and parts
• Required annual training (with exam) for licensed gun dealers and employees handling firearms
• Required dealers to provide a state-designed pamphlet on the risks of gun ownership
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