Do you need a permit to buy airgun in california?

[kkarmical]

Lmao. Are you serious? I can walk into a gun shop and walk out with a ar15 with no permit. So idk why anyone would think you need a permit. You only need a permit for handgun...real hand guns. For all airgun and rifle and shotgun. You only need a clean background check and you can buy them. As for airguns, you dont even need a background check. A criminal can buy one. So you serious bro?

This poster does not fully grasp what goes on in other states than the one in which he resides. In states like New Jersey, Rhode Island airgun is considered a full blown firearm. In some other states there are restrictions for buying them and some jurisdictions like New York City have a restrictive municipal ordinance regulating air guns. Information about Illinois has already been shown.

With the wingbats that are running Califonia, it is probably only a matter of time that air guns will hit the radar and if we in the sport keep showing what the big bores can do, the feds will step in.

I'm not talking about other states. OP asked about California. I lived in Sacramento ca, and I can buy a real rifle and shotgun without a permit. So I dont understand anyone would think you need a permit in California to buy a airgun when you can buy a real firearm.

Sacramento has a gun or ammo shop on just about every other corner lol, it's not like that in the in the Eastbay at all, especially SF & Daly City, I Do not even remember seeing a sporting goods store in Daly City.

Most sporting goods stores do not carry ammo, you're lucky if you can find hunting gear and no guns.

 

[far_shot]

Slingshots with a wrist rest are banned in NYC!

 

[donwalk]

ericmakiman --=--

Komifornia being as it is, you have a valid question. While powder burners are currently regulated with background check and waiting period plus no lead for hunting purposes), air guns are not a part of those regulations as they are NOT firearms. That said, it will only be a matter of time before Sacramento figure it out and creates regulations for air guns. Especially since other states allow big game hunting. That will be the demise of air guns flying under the radar as it were.

It's always good to ask the question, knowledge is a good thing. Now go buy yourself an air gun and have a LOT of fun. 

mike

this^^^

 

[phillip]

For the life of me I can't figure out why people choose to live where their basic fundamental human and constitutional rights are trampled all over by hypocrisy laden politicians. Let them live in their own little world by themselves, there is a whole nation out here that welcomes good people who simply want to live their lives as they see fit as long as they don't hurt anyone else.

We live here because we were born here and our roots run deep. We have jobs, families, property, etc, that we can't abandon because of a hobby. Would I like to move away and live in a rural paradise unencumbered by California's idiotic laws? You bet. However, the odds of that happening are slim.

And I might point out that one should never get too comfortable about the laws where one lives because things could change on a dime: witness Virginia. One must surely wonder how many of those who reside in Virginia were not too long ago shaking their heads at the madness we have to put up with in California. And now they're getting a taste of what it means to be ruled by capricious overlords.

 

[Elbowgrease]

.22 or larger. 117 Over 700 fps. Fire arm in Illinois. What bs!

If im not mistaking there are even some places in the U.S. where airguns are not even allowed. Not a good thing. Part of why I want to stay in sunny AZ. far less restrictions then most.