Gun Owners Sue California DOJ over Defective Firearms Registration System

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Gun owners filed a lawsuit against the California Department of Justice and Attorney General Xavier Becerra in connection with the state’s defective firearms registration system.

In their lawsuit, gun owners claimed that the California Firearms Application Reporting System (CFARS) was defective. State law required gun owners to register their semi-automatic assault weapons with a magazine locking device by June 30. The California DOJ calls these semiautomatic firearms “bullet button assault weapons.”

Gun owners argued that the CFARS was largely inaccessible and eventually crashed during the week before the statutory registration deadline. As a result, many of them failed to meet the deadline through no fault of their own.

Unavoidable problem

They emphasized that the problem was “inevitable.” According to them, the CFARS had a huge backlog even before the deadline. As early as February 1, the backlog was already 4,653 applications to register.

In addition, gun owners alleged that the California DOJ did not take meaningful actions to help them understand the law and its requirements. According to them, their “fate and legal compliance were largely left to word of mouth.”