View attachment 226375 Gavin Newsom prevented from accepting gun gift by Gavin Newsom
Last updated Jul 24, 2025 3:55pm0
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SACRAMENTO – California State Assemblyman Carl DeMaio is offering to help Governor Gavin Newsom avoid criminal prosecution by formally asking U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and California Attorney General Rob Bonta to provide legal advice to the Governor on how to fully comply with the convoluted and draconian gun laws that he has signed into effect.
“It would be an absolute shame if Governor Gavin Newsom inadvertently violated one of his own anti-gun laws – but the extraordinary hassle he now faces proves not only that he is a hypocrite but that the draconian gun laws he imposed on regular Californians should be scrapped,” DeMaio said.
The controversy over the gun gift started when Newsom appeared on The Shawn Ryan Show podcast – and the host gifted the Governor a SIG Sauer P365 X-Macro. On the show, Newsom appeared to accept the firearm and even claimed he was “not anti-gun.”
But DeMaio’s office has now learned that off camera Newsom rejected the gift because of compliance rules and left the firearm behind in Tennessee. Newsom’s team has since admitted that the California anti-gun laws are so complicated that they have had to hire legal counsel to conduct a legal review.
DeMaio questions whether the Governor will ever actually follow through in legally accepting it.
DeMaio thinks that Governor Newsom should get the very best legal advice – which is why DeMaio has sent a letter to Bondi and Bonta urging them to help Newsom comply with the complicated anti-gun laws he has imposed on California.
