I have often pointed to California as an warning of what is in store for the rest of the USA ,if the liberal politicians gain the upper hand.Last year is just such an example. 
Two cases in 2011 indicate the state of justice in the state of California.
Police in two cities followed the same procedure. Each sent officers to a man’s home. The police confiscated firearms unrelated to the investigation. Then they refused to give back all of the guns.
In Oakland, police went to a man’s home to investigate his brother’s suicide. Not suspecting anything amiss, he let them into his home. Then they took all of his guns.
The police refused to return one of them. They claimed it is an assault rifle. He disputed this. So do his lawyers.
The second man lives in San Francisco. The police came to investigate him. They took his weapons. The district attorney dismissed the charges against him. The police kept a Remington .22 rifle, a 12-gauge shotgun, and five other guns.
The police claim he could not prove that he owned them. But they can’t prove that he didn’t. Possession is nine-tenths of the law, but not for citizens. It is for the police after the police confiscate the citizen’s weapons.
The Police are not always your friend, This was proved in New Orleans,after hurricane Katrina. I really feel sorry for the gun owners of that state ,but it is a problem of their making and choosing. If you elect anti constitutional legislators ,then you get anti constitutional laws.