{"id":79162,"date":"2017-09-13T11:08:48","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T15:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=79162"},"modified":"2026-06-03T02:51:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T07:51:59","slug":"ca-legislature-approves-bill-disarm-misdemeanor-hate-crime-offenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/ca-legislature-approves-bill-disarm-misdemeanor-hate-crime-offenders\/","title":{"rendered":"CA Legislature Approves Bill to Disarm Misdemeanor Hate Crime Offenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_79163\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-13-at-1.26.51-PM.png\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"ca-legislature-approves-bill-disarm-misdemeanor-hate-crime-offenders\" title=\"CA Legislature Approves Bill to Disarm Misdemeanor Hate Crime Offenders\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-79163\" class=\"wp-image-79163 size-medium\" title=\"CA Legislature Approves Bill to Disarm Misdemeanor Hate Crime Offenders\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-13-at-1.26.51-PM-400x204.png\" alt=\"CA Legislature Approves Bill to Disarm Misdemeanor Hate Crime Offenders\" width=\"400\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-13-at-1.26.51-PM-400x204.png 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-13-at-1.26.51-PM-150x77.png 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-13-at-1.26.51-PM.png 648w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-79163\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Reginald Byron Jones-Sawyer, Sr.\u00a0 (<em>Photo: His website<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The California State Legislature approved a bill this week that would disarm all hate crime offenders for a period of 10 years, including those with misdemeanor convictions.<\/p>\n<p>The Disarm Hate Act, <a href=\"https:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB785\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"ca-legislature-approves-bill-disarm-misdemeanor-hate-crime-offenders\" title=\"CA Legislature Approves Bill to Disarm Misdemeanor Hate Crime Offenders\">AB 785,<\/a> cleared both chambers with unanimous support.\u00a0 It&#8217;ll now head to the desk of Gov. Jerry Brown for his signature.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are too many examples in our country\u2019s recent history, which show what a firearm can do in the hands of people who practice hate,\u201d said Assemblymember Reginald Byron Jones-Sawyer, Sr., the author of AB 785 in a<a href=\"https:\/\/a59.asmdc.org\/press-releases\/california-state-legislature-sends-governor-brown-bill-disarm-hate-crimes\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"ca-legislature-approves-bill-disarm-misdemeanor-hate-crime-offenders\" title=\"CA Legislature Approves Bill to Disarm Misdemeanor Hate Crime Offenders\"> press release.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe recent incident in Charlottesville, where heavily armed Neo-Nazis, Klansmen and white supremacists, spewing hatred and inciting violence under the guise of protecting free speech and the right to bear arms, is not what the <a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/bob-costas-did-founding-fathers-want-us-to-have-ak-47s-cop-killer-bullets\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"ca-legislature-approves-bill-disarm-misdemeanor-hate-crime-offenders\" title=\"CA Legislature Approves Bill to Disarm Misdemeanor Hate Crime Offenders\" data-wpil-monitor-id=\"6368\">founding fathers<\/a> of this great nation were protecting when they drafted our Constitution,&#8221; continued Jones-Sawyer, Sr.<\/p>\n<p>This bill mirrors a similar one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/ny-bill-repeal-gun-rights-hate-crime-offenders\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"ca-legislature-approves-bill-disarm-misdemeanor-hate-crime-offenders\" title=\"CA Legislature Approves Bill to Disarm Misdemeanor Hate Crime Offenders\">introduced in New York <\/a>earlier this year.\u00a0 We asked Alan Gottlieb,\u00a0executive vice president of the Second Amendment Foundation, his thoughts on that NY bill and he brought up a good point about its redundancy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf a Hate Crime is serious or violent, laws already on the books would prohibit the offender from owning a firearm,\u201d said Alan Gottlieb in an email to GunsAmerica.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiberal <a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/buzzfeed-took-five-anti-gun-liberals-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"ca-legislature-approves-bill-disarm-misdemeanor-hate-crime-offenders\" title=\"CA Legislature Approves Bill to Disarm Misdemeanor Hate Crime Offenders\" data-wpil-monitor-id=\"6367\">anti-gun<\/a> fanatics want to make everything they don\u2019t agree with a hate crime. Some even want to make owning a firearm a hate crime,\u201d Gottlieb added.<\/p>\n<p>Same holds true for AB 785.\u00a0 It&#8217;s creating a slippery-slope for civilian disarmament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The California State Legislature approved a bill this week that would disarm all hate crime offenders, even those with misdemeanor offenses.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":79163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"manual","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25,216],"tags":[132,469,122],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-79162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gunsamerica-authors","8":"category-current-events","9":"category-s-h-blannelberry","10":"tag-buzz","11":"tag-gun-control","12":"tag-r2kba"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.8 (Yoast SEO v27.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>CA Legislature Approves Bill to Disarm Misdemeanor Hate Crime Offenders<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The California State Legislature approved a bill this week that would disarm all hate crime offenders, even those with misdemeanor offenses.\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/ca-legislature-approves-bill-disarm-misdemeanor-hate-crime-offenders\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CA Legislature Approves Bill to Disarm Misdemeanor Hate Crime Offenders\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The California State Legislature approved a bill this week that would disarm all hate crime offenders, even those with misdemeanor offenses.\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/ca-legislature-approves-bill-disarm-misdemeanor-hate-crime-offenders\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gun Reviews and News | GunsAmerica.com\/Digest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gunsamerica\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-09-13T15:08:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-06-03T07:51:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-13-at-1.26.51-PM.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"648\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"331\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"S.H. 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