California, originator of most wacky laws, is about to make the sales of semi-automatic weapons and their ammo effectively illegal, by demanding science-fictional requirements from the manufacturers. The cops, unlike the little people, will still be able to buy real-world armament, of course. And the criminals, being criminals, will ignore the law. Only law-abiding citizens will be disarmed.

I wonder how this will stand up to a Second Amendment challenge? Given the composition and nutty opinions of that particular circuit, I’m sure that it will be found up to Constitutional muster, but I would hope that the Supreme Court would have something to say about it.

Oh, and is there any useful sense in which Arnold Scharzenegger can be considered a Republican? He seems to have gone completely native along with the legislature.