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Dan Walters Daily: Republicans turn up heat on legislative oversight


California still has a large backlog of prohibited gun owners, despite millions of dollars set aside by the Legislature in 2013 to seize firearms from thousands of people banned from having them.
California still has a large backlog of prohibited gun owners, despite millions of dollars set aside by the Legislature in 2013 to seize firearms from thousands of people banned from having them. California Dept. of Justice

There's some political bait in legislative Republicans' request for an oversight hearing on the backlog of prohibited gun owners, Dan says.

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This story was originally published March 18, 2015 at 10:59 PM.

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