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• California’s Unsafe Handgun Act (the “UHA”) seeks to prevent accidental discharges by requiring handguns to have particular safety features.

• As of January 1, 2001, no handgun may be manufactured within California, imported into California for sale, lent, given, kept for sale, or offered/exposed for sale unless that handgun model has passed firing, safety, and drop tests and is certified for sale in California by the Department of Justice. Private party transfers, curio/relic handguns, certain single-action revolvers, and pawn/consignment returns are exempt from this requirement.

• For more information visit: https://www.oag.ca.gov/firearms/certifi ... uns/search

• We have firearms that are, in some cases, several generations removed from the most modern designs when compared to other states.

• This continues to limit those wishing to seek out the "best" in the industry while CA continues to fight a recent judge's decision that the CA UHA is "unconstitutional."

• Advances in manufacturing firearms as "ambidextrous" have definitely worked against all of our lefthanded shooters.

• Some recent additions have really increased the "concealed carry" potential and the below, in no particular order, are a small sample of what is available.

• a snow shovel,

• air jack and tire chains, if you have them.

• Brightly colored equipment is really useful in a snowy environment.

• An ice scraper/window brush and

• recovery equipment are a must, also.

• Pack ham radio gear if you have it. If not, consider getting licensed. The exam isn’t that difficult and gear is reasonably priced.

• If you don’t care to go that route, look into a satellite phone.

• Cell phones rarely work in the outback, so don’t count on one.

During the winter months, motorists may encounter traction chain controls in the mountain areas within California. When chain controls are established, signs will be posted along the road indicating the type of requirement. There are three requirements in California.

Requirement One (R1): Chains, traction devices or snow tires are required on the drive axle of all vehicles except four wheel/ all wheel drive vehicles.

Requirement Two (R2): Chains or traction devices are required on all vehicles except four wheel/ all wheel drive vehicles with snow-tread tires on all four wheels.
(NOTE: Four wheel/all wheel drive vehicles must carry traction devices in chain control areas.)

Requirement Three (R3): Chains or traction devices are required on all vehicles, no exceptions.

Snow-tread Tires:

The California vehicle code section 558 defines a snow-tread tire as follows, " A 'Snow-tread tire' is a tire which has a relatively deep and aggressive tread pattern compared with conventional passenger tread pattern". Snow-tread tires can be identified by examining the sidewall of the tire where the letters MS, M/S, M+S or the words MUD AND SNOW have been stamped into the sidewall.