CA2A Official

CA2A Official

NRA Certified Pistol Instructor. NROI-certified Range Officer. California CCW holder. Most of what gets covered here has been navigated firsthand — the applications, the fees, the training hours, the wait — before it gets written up. Away from the keyboard that means regular time on the range, and volunteering to host events for shooters who are still finding their footing. On the page it means one job: taking California firearm law — genuinely dense, genuinely fast-moving, and almost never written for normal people — and turning it into something you can read once and act on. Primary sources linked, legal claims date-stamped, and when the law is unsettled we say so plainly instead of pretending otherwise. Educational information, not legal advice.
  • Joined: August 7, 2026
  • Articles: 17

DROS Now Requires Your Occupation — Here’s the Statute Behind It, and Why “Trolling” Isn’t a Safe Answer

Occupation: Required. PC 28160(a)(26), effective Aug 27, 2026. Dealer counter with a transaction form.

As of Thursday, August 27, 2026, California's DROS Entry System won't let a dealer submit your purchase without your occupation. It isn't a new law — it's a line that has been sitting in Penal Code 28160 all along, and the software finally enforces it. Here's the statute, what the DOJ has and hasn't published, and why the funny answers being passed around the forums carry real criminal exposure.

AB 2047: The 3D-Printing Bill That Would Create a “Roster of Approved Printers”

A Roster For Printers. AB 2047 · Firearm blocking tech · Suspense file Aug 13

AB 2047 would require 3D printers sold in California to ship with "firearm blocking technology" — an approved-device model, plus liability for circumventing it. The Senate Appropriations Committee takes up its suspense file on Thursday, August 13, and AB 2047 is on it. Here's what the bill does, where it stands, and why the opposition runs well beyond 2A.