Assembly Resolution Against Firearms Industry a Dangerous Precedent

California’s got the most gun control laws in the country. It’s also trying to win the race on bad legislative ideas, too.

California’s Assemblywoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Los Angeles) is pushing a resolution that California would use its economic might to nudge banks and lending institutions away from doing business with federally licensed law abiding firearms manufacturers and retailers if they have open accounts with the Golden State. Assembly Concurrent Resolution 115 would “encourage” six lending institutions to cut all business ties with America’s firearms manufacturers. The goal, according to Kamlager-Dove, is eliminate the production of firearms and the means to exercise Second Amendment rights.

Kamlager-Dove explained, “You cannot have a gun if the gun has not been made. You cannot sell a gun that has not been made.”

Then, Kamlager-Dove does economic policy backflips when she attempts to say it is actually a free-market incentive, because it would allow firearms manufactures to use alternative options when it comes to banking services and loans.