Fred, I have a C & R license and I have carefully read the California law and nowhere does it say that, as a matter of fact when you purchase a shotgun from a 01 FFL in this state there is no record of the firearm that goes to DOJ, only information about you and of course the 25-30 dollars the state gets + the amount the dealer gets. I did go to the trouble of getting a COE from DOJ which they issued to me as a collector?? I guess this is what happens when laws are made by politicians.

I learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what I learned the day before was wrong