To answer your question on Ca. gun laws. I walked out of my LGS in 15 minutes with my Single Six here in Montana. In California I would still be waiting to be able to pick it up. Aside from having to wait 10 days in Ca. I would have to sign an affidavit stating I have a Ca. approved gun safe I will be locking it up in and I would have to present my Handgun Safety Certificate to be able to buy it. Some handguns are not legal for sale in Ca. such as the Ruger LCP, or the Judge variants (.45/.410) and others. Gun mfrs. have to submit handguns to Ca. for drop testing etc. (I had heard at one time once it's like 12 of each) and a number of company's have just quit trying to jump through California's hoops. I was almost afraid to own or take an "assault" type rifle to the range because no one was sure what the regs were. They required bullet buttons so you couldn't reload quickly and 10 round maximum capacity magazines. But you may be in trouble for complying because from day to day no one could agree on what the rules were. Just having one at the range freaked people out. Yet I could take a Remington Woodsmaster with an extended magazine and no one batted an eye. Have a friend who owned a .50 cal bolt action rifle that he had registered to be able to possess in California. He didn't realize it had to be re-registered every year and suddenly it was illegal. And to answer your other question....yes I am extremely happy to be out of California.

Farming, or anything else for that matter, is easy when your plow's a keyboard and you're a 1000 miles from the field.