John, our Gummint basically took the California List and said, "Okay, let's ban everything on this list ........ and anything that even LOOKS LIKE one of them"..... and that's just what they did.
Of course, we destroyed the political party which did that, but nobody seems to care.
I always thought that "Responsible Government" meant that the Government was responsible to the People. Seems that they have reversed that a whole big bunch, and now us peasants are responsible to our Masters.
Talking with a lawyer a while back, he tells me that when he went to law school (about 15 years ago) they had ONE 40-minute lecture about the Constitution of this country. This may not seem odd, except that it is the Constitution of this country and the documents associated with and forming a part of it, which guarantee your right to own ANY private property, including firearms. But it is interesting that only 40 minutes out of a 3-year course, were devoted to any discussion about the Constitution at all. Small wonder the Government can pull off anything they want to: nobody knows the law.
See Magna Charta (1215, 1225), Bill of Rights (1688/89), British North America Act (1867 and updates), Canadian Bill of Rights (1960), Assize of Arms (1181) for more detail. For anti-taxers, there is also a discussion on rights in "Call It Extortion!", the book about anti-taxer Gerry Hart and his 46-year battle with Revenue Canada.