In a place like commie-fornia, they'll declare you a felon if you don't register what you bought and, if you do, they'll be sure to rearrange the goal posts to ban your purchase after the fact. Even if there's mass civil disobedience like in Conneticutt, you won't be able to actually use your firearm without risk of arrest etc.I have seen the folks in California commenting about buying all they could earlier in the year before some law took effect. The stores around here seem to be way down from what I am hearing.
It seems like the only to avoid the rat race of staying ahead of the latest gun ban in socialist places like that, is to settle for 19th century designs.