To: All concerned legislators:

1. I support AB 357, because it shouldn't be anyone's business what anyone wants to do with his or her own rights. Furthermore, a permit shouldn't even be required for concealed carry of a handgun or for any weapon. Concealed carry MUST be considered a right, universally, without restrictions of any kind.

2. AB 962 must NOT be approved. The attack on rights to ammunition is a blatant disrespect, and sidestep attempt, of the people's 2nd Amendment. The bill is an attempt to protect government people, not to protect the people. The government is NOT the people. The bill is a fraud.

3. As to SB 776, I'm pleased that you even are allowing high-capacity magazines. However, there should NOT be a registration requirement to purchase or own or use such. Good quality and effectiveness don't commit crimes.

4. SB 697 is basically another "shoot-yourself" loophole, to defacto bypass/cancel people's 2nd Amendment rights. All technology to make the use of weapons traceable, is not in keeping with the spirit and NEED of the 2nd Amendment, in general. I mean to imply and say, also, that even the long-established ballistics forensic technology and practice is in effect a bypassing of people's 2nd Amendment rights. It only allows recourse to what the government, ostensibly, wants done, or wants to allow to be done. It doesn't even allow that much, because the system draconically, self-interestedly, and routinely judges people guilty, regardless how justified an action may be, in terms meaningful to the person himself. The system has never constituted fairness or reason or recourse.

Furthermore, the degree to which the government does anything at all, in any matter whatsoever, is the degree to which the people are being OPPRESSED. The U. S. "freedom status" is a fancy wrapper on the most TOTALITARIAN form of government on earth.

Only size-of-government = zero can constitute freedom.

Furthermore, the 2nd Amendment must be interpreted as allowing ALL full-blown military weaponry and arsenals and artillery and explosives, etc., in the hands of the people DIRECTLY, without any restrictions or monitoring whatsoever, ever. The founding colonists, of this country, OBVIOUSLY embraced MY interpretation, here. Your refusal to concede this is proof that you are falsely personating authority.

Armed government is oppression.
Armed people are free.
Steve