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San Luis Obispo County felon accused of possessing more than 100 firearms

May 30, 2026

Jacob Cole Clopton

By JOSH FRIEDMAN

San Luis Obispo County prosecutors last week charged a man with seven felony counts, after a search of his Morro Bay area home netted 107 firearms and methamphetamine.

On March 12, San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s deputies served a warrant at a residence on Little Morro Creek Road. Detectives seized 107 firearms, a substantial quantity of ammunition and reloaded ammunition, magazines, firearm components and methamphetamine, according to the San Luis Obispo County District Attorney’s Office.

Jacob Cole Clopton, 39, possessed firearms in outdoor sheds, a garage safe, a horse barn, vehicles and his home, a criminal complaint filed on May 21 states. The firearms included rifles, shotguns and pistols.

Prosecutors charged Clopton with one count of possession of a controlled substance while armed with a loaded, operable firearm; five counts of possession of a firearm by a felon with priors; and one count of possession of ammunition by a prohibited person. 

The criminal complaint also alleges Clopton has a prior strike under California’s Three Strikes Law. Clopton was previously convicted in Texas of theft of a firearm and in San Luis Obispo County of resisting an executive officer and unlawful driving or taking of a vehicle, according to the district attorney’s office.

Clopton is currently in San Luis Obispo County Jail, where he has been in custody since Wednesday. Investigators are asking that anyone who has information that could assist the prosecution of Clopton contact San Luis Obispo County Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-549-7867.

 


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Wait. Are you trying to tell me that California’s hundreds, perhaps thousands, of gun control laws don’t actually work to keep guns out of the hands of criminals? Every gun transfer in this state has to go through a FFL, has to have a Dealer Record of Sale (DROS) logged into the state computer, and has to have a 10 day waiting period. Did this guy somehow bypass all of that? You know what WOULD have worked? Keeping him in jail for his past offenses. I don’t think he would have acquired 107 firearms while being held in a cell.


Lock up the criminals and give the law abiding citizens their freedoms back.


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Give it a little time, it surely worked with drugs.


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I’m confused. What worked with drugs? Prop 47 & prop 57 took away the court’s discretion to imprison or place repeat drug offenders in rehab. Prop 36 reversed those crappy propositions and now the state leaders are not funding the rehab efforts required to implement prop 36. Empty the jails at all costs, including public safety. What a kooky electorate!


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One trip to Idaho and you can get all the guns you want.


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I am happy the party of Law and Order currently occupies the House, Senate, and Supreme Court. They’ll work together and fix this mess.


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This happened in California, which has stricter gun control laws than the Federal government. Please explain how a convicted felon came to possess 107 firearms in California? Newsom tells us he knows the fix for all of our problems. I guess that’s why we have the highest gas prices in the country. And the highest levels of homelessness. And the highest cost per inch for high speed rail (which still hasn’t transported a passenger). I’m sure he can solve this. No question about it.


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