As an update to my “vaccine against globalist lies”, I was reminded by the data out of Illinois that there may not be a vaccine against globalist lies, but there is an antidote to any tyranny those lies lead to.
As we can see from the above table created from the data on the fbi.gov website’s NICS data tables, California and Illinois have different strengths against tyranny. This potentially could be due to California’s changing demographiscs, and changing leadership in Sacramento.
People may have forgotten that California was a republican state as late as 1980 when it elected Reagan for President overwhelmingly. Unfortunately, the one thing that President Reagan did which he said he regretted was approving amnesty, which was said to be the last amnesty for illegals that would be given, and then the border would be strengthened and there would be no more amnesties. As we know, that did not happen, and the majority of the illegals amnestied became citizens and stayed or came to California.
This led to drastic demographic displacement of multi generational whites, who left the state as it shifted to the left, and led to near exponential growth in the Latino population of CA, both illegal (as more came thinking, correctly, that there would be ever more granting of amnesties in the future) and legal, as those legalized under the 1980s amnesty sponsored chain migration from Mexico. Each person amnestied chain migration sponsored an average of 6 family members from their home country, each of whom then became eligible once a green card holder, to bring their own spouse and children, and once a citizen to bring a larger swath such as parents and even siblings.
Thus by 2018, CA became majority latino.
The lack of interest in asserting their 2a rights through purchasing firearms – ar at least the lack of interest in doing so by many in a state whose population was 30 million or more at all times of the data collection, is shocking. It admittedly is not just the demographics, but the fact that by 1989, California was the first state to pass their own assault weapons act making many weapons illegal after the Stockton schoolyard shooting.
The rest of the country did not ban these weapons until 5 years later, in 1994, and even then, that ban sunset after 2004 when it was found ineffective (the assault weapons ban which banned guns based on their looking like AK-47 even though functionally the same as any semi automatic rifle)
California on the other hand, has never repealed the 1989 law, but instead has expanded it to include ever more weapons by simply reclassifying more and more weapons as assault weapons, to the point where in 2016, California expanded it to include all semi automatic weapons capable of receiving a detachable magazine, except if made featurless or registering it as an assault weapon by 2018, (for rifles).
For shotguns, they were not included in the statute during the registration period, but after 2018 the regulations made by the DOJ in implementing the law expanded the law wrongfully by making the regulations applicable to shotguns though they were not in the statute. Despite actions by the NRA and Michel lawyers during the acceptance by the agency of the regulations which resulted in them pulling them from submission, they resubmitted them unchanged months later, and were accepted and published and are thus now law under California code of regulations.
So we can see that California is an example of not really having a 2a, or having it removed bit by bit. California in the table above at least numerically outnumbers Illinois for NICS checks (which can stand in for gun purchasing at least in the first 10 years of the table quite easily) even though that actually is sad because California’s population greatly exceeds Illinois for all the years of the table, and exceeds 30 million for all the years of the table.
But at least there are multiple years where California numerically exceeds Illinois in NICS checks.
The Ca numbers per year are around 800000 and up to 900000 for the first years, which means about 2-3% of the population was buying guns. This does exclude all the hundreds of thousands of guns already owned by the multi generational whites who remained in the state, and based on my experience with representative members of those multi generational whites, I would say those numbers of firearms already owned are nothing to sneeze at. Many whites from the baby boomer generation owned more than just a basic set of 7-9 guns, but instead were actual collectors, coming from that wealthier group who went to school on the GI bill and got in when real estate was affordable.
Anyway, so we see that evwery year between 2 and 3 percent of the CA population was buying NEW guns.
Overall since the beginning of nics, Californians have bought got nics checks 23 million. For a population which during that time rose to nearly 40 million, that is not so scary for tyrants. That is the results the tyrants here wanted, and they got.
Illinois is a different situation. A shining example of how you scare tyrants, outdoing as of late even Kentucky. These two statres make me feel so much better.
We see Illinois for the first ten years (from 1998 to 2008) does about 6 million nics checks. For a state of 12 million, that is not too shabby. (Californian with 30+ million, during the same time frame got 8 million)
But when Illinois really starts to shine is after McDonald vs. City of Chicago, which was in Illinois and was the second amendment case in which the supreme court incorporated the second amendment to the states (of course, the 7th circuit later ignored this and refused to incorporate it and this has not been corrected, but at least the baseline for liberty was established with McDonald and with a couple of 7th circuit decisions which upheld Heller and MacDonald against the state.) That appears to have made a big difference in how far the legislature of the two states were wiling to keep going after Heller and McDonald. Whereas the 9th has not shut down one case since Heller and MacDonald, the 7th has at least a couple of times. Getting slapped down by the courts even once appears to make a difference in how willing legislatures are to violate their citizens rights.
And with the 2a, when those rights are upheld by the courts, citizens buy guns and that has an impact on feisty legislatures that no court decision ever can. Guns deter tyrants absolutely and I say Illinois citizens keep doing what you are doing to keep the tyrants in line. Read ’em and weep, tyrants, Illinois citizens have got this many nics checks in the last years since McDonald and the 7th decisions upholding the 2a a couple times
| 3,332,055 |
| 7,455,065 |
| 4,949,570 |
| 2,831,447 |
| 1,601,087 |
| 1,924,070 |
| 1,247,398 |
| 1,344,096 |
| 1,280,613 |
| 1,036,061 |
So we see over 2 per person in only the last ten years. And nearly 48 million over all time, in a state with 12 million people. Thanks Illinois for your shining example of liberty!
| Totals | Year | Illinois Population | California Population |
| 1476073 | |||
| 8474505 | |||
| 1,601,054 | |||
| 7,455,065 | 12/1/2020 | 12587530 | 39368078 |
| 1,240,632 | |||
| 4,949,570 | 12/1/2019 | 12667017 | 39437610 |
| 1,297,132 | |||
| 2,831,447 | 12/1/2018 | 12724685 | 39437463 |
| 1,570,110 | |||
| 1,601,087 | 12/1/2017 | 12779893 | 39337785 |
| 2,377,167 | |||
| 1,924,070 | 12/1/2016 | 12821709 | 39149186 |
| 1,761,079 | |||
| 1,247,398 | 12/1/2015 | 12859585 | 38904296 |
| 1,474,616 | |||
| 1,344,096 | 12/1/2014 | 12885092 | 38586706 |
| 1,368,295 | |||
| 1,280,613 | 12/1/2013 | 12895778 | 38253768 |
| 1,132,603 | |||
| 1,036,061 | 12/1/2012 | 12883029 | 37944551 |
| 905,701 | |||
| 828,962 | 12/1/2011 | 12867783 | 37636311 |
| 816,399 | |||
| 695,300 | 12/1/2010 | 12840545 | 37319550 |
| 788,164 | |||
| 752,071 | 12/1/2009 | 12796778 | 36961229 |
| 780,398 | |||
| 615,941 | 12/1/2008 | 12747038 | 36604337 |
| 855,943 | |||
| 536,975 | 12/1/2007 | 12695866 | 36250311 |
| 617,820 | |||
| 527,698 | 12/1/2006 | 12643955 | 36021202 |
| 611,022 | |||
| 527,134 | 12/1/2005 | 12609903 | 35827943 |
| 548,843 | |||
| 590,417 | 12/1/2004 | 12589773 | 35574576 |
| 524,431 | |||
| 515,917 | 12/1/2003 | 12556006 | 35253159 |
| 684,390 | |||
| 446,138 | 12/1/2002 | 12525556 | 34871843 |
| 854,569 | |||
| 462,702 | 12/1/2001 | 12488445 | 34479458 |
| 794,506 | |||
| 449,771 | 12/1/2000 | 12434161 | 33987977 |
| 883,144 | |||
| 484,848 | 12/1/1999 | 12128370 | 33145121 |
| 67,445 | |||
| 41,477 | 12/1/1998 | 12069774 | 32682794 |
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