Gun control
What Trump wants: The president-elect has said governments have no business restricting types of guns that law-abiding citizens can own. He has also called for a national right-to-carry law that would allow gun owners with permits to carry a concealed weapon in one state to carry those firearms legally into any state.
What California has: California has the strictest gun laws in the country, banning a long list of specific assault weapons from being sold or purchased in the state. California law gives county sheriffs and city police chiefs broad discretion when issuing concealed weapons permits.
What could happen: States can enact stricter gun laws than the federal government, but not if Congress passes a law specifically banning those restrictions, said Erwin Chemerinsky, founding dean of the UC Irvine School of Law. “Whenever Congress acts, it has to point to some power in the Constitution,” he said. If Congress wants to override states’ bans on certain firearms, it would likely point to the power to regulate commerce between states, Chemerinsky said. He said Congress could create a national concealed-carry law claiming the same power to regulate commerce, but he said he wasn’t sure it would withstand a legal challenge. UCLA law Professor Adam Winkler, an expert in constitutional law and Second Amendment rights, said, “We are likely to see legal challenges brought by California against new federal policies on guns.”