CA is so totally eff'd up right now that there is currently a 101-post thread in the C&R section on CalGunsNet about whether the CA DOJ can require photos of C&R bolt action rifles for registration by 03 FFLs. DOJ is inconsistently insistent on photos, but no one can find anything in the regs that requires or even allows this. Even the simplest questions about ammo purchases or transfers generate a multitude of answers. Very few people at DOJ seem to have any idea what they are doing. It's so bad here that the new laws make it a crime to give your blind partner a couple of shells if he runs out during a hunt. That transfer has to go through an FFL. If your buddy's gun breaks a firing pin out in the boonies, you can't legally loan him your backup for the day. Be thankful that you are not here.