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I know this comment was quite a while ago, but yeah, really, by area, most of California is pro-gun. Unfortunately the politics of the state are driven by a very few dense population centers, San Francisco, San Jose, Los Angeles, San Diego, etc. But once you get outside these metro areas the climate concerning certain things changes dramatically. The cities lean left, but the vast majority of the state, by area, leans right.
Unfortunately, people outside the state seldom understand that, and so they lump all of CA in with the metro areas. For example, many people from outside the state are surprised to learn that I have a CCW. When they hear that they often, incorrectly, assume I must know someone, or have some in, to get such a thing. And that is simply wrong.
If you look at the following image you will get a general feel for how the state leans. The red areas are typically left leaning, the green are typically right leaning. This image is a distribution of county CCW permit issuing policies, but it follows the approaches to most things.
The area of California I live in (one of the green counties above), most people live on property and on dirt roads. Most people own firearms. We often call in and shoot coyotes from my front porch. And nobody gives a crap if you wear fur or leather, or want a plastic straw in your soda. But that California, by far the largest by area, is forgotten by people outside the state, that is the California with more than 1.5 million guns sales last year. Want to put that in context? Of all the new firearms sold in the US last year, almost 1 in 10 was in the state of California, and only Texas has more FFLs (licensed firearms dealers) than the state of California.
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