Buying a gun in California during a pandemic
December 20th, 2021, we had an intruder in the office. A homeless man who had obviously had prior experience with involuntary psychiatric hospitalization, he remained, naked, in our reception area, for almost two hours after we placed a call to 911 (he refused to leave). Our area has become - along with most of the metro area - regrettably overrun with the mentally ill homeless, who have attempted to live in our office building, have barricaded themselves in our parking structure behind dumpsters etc. to use intravenous drugs, etc., etc. Calls to 911 frequently get us nowhere, and our staff are afraid. We have a .45 in the office, but it belongs to one of the other shareholders. I decided to get my own handgun to keep at the office for self defense. Hope I never need it! Shortly after our naked intruder was escorted, handcuffed to a stretcher, to his next psychiatric ward, I went to the local gun store to see what they had that was in the range of what I wanted to spend. I could get a