Posted on 06/18/2009 6:05:15 PM PDT by JoeProBono
Sacramento, CA - The State Assembly has passed Assembly Bill 962, by a vote of 42-31. AB 962 now heads to the Senate, where it has been assigned to the Senate Public Safety Committee. The bill, sponsored by Assemblyman Kevin de Leon (D-Los Angeles), would make it a crime to privately transfer more than 50 rounds of ammunition per month.Ammunition retailers would have to be licensed, and would be required to store ammunition in such a manner that it would be inaccessible to purchasers.
The bill would also require purchasers submit to fingerprinting, which would be submitted to the Department of Justice. Additionally, mail order ammunition sales would be prohibited. The bill would essentially criminalize the transfer of one box of ammunition to even a family member or friend, unless you are registered as a "handgun ammunition vendor" in the Department of Justice's database.
Local Assemblymen Anthony Adams (R-Hesperia), Paul Cook (R-Yucca Valley) and Bill Emmerson (R-Redlands) voted against AB 962.
No one asked me for advice but if Californians can’t vote out the tyrants, move to a redder state. The place is lost, let it sink and die from advanced incurable socialism.
The part about making sure that customers can't access the ammo would force retailers to store the ammo either in locked cases or behind the counter, greatly reducing the supply they could stock, thus cranking up the price.
Oh, well. It'll just create another black market and another class of law-abiding “criminals.”
Dear “Kal-if-forn-e-a”
U be broke and have udder stuf to worree aboot. U know it be challenged in coort and u lose (wich costs monee).
Da Cracker-Rapper has spoken.
Someone should Transfer 42 Congressmen, from Sacramento to the Streets.
Will this mean more ammo for Free America?
California ought to secede and establish their own socialist nation. This is preposterous.
good thing I don’t live in CA, I think I just broke their law today!
I don’t know if this has ever been discussed. Can a state be expelled from the Union?
Wow! These people are broke and this is what they are worried about?
If I was a gun manufacturer, I would simply stop shipping to the police departments.
guess that's what it will come to.
Are we going to be reduced to machete's and voodoo like Kenya?
>> Oh, well. It’ll just create another black market and another class of law-abiding “criminals.”
Think of the lives it will save, though — as true criminals are captured in droves as they submit to fingerprinting when they buy their drive-by-shooting ammo.
Because you *know* that the *real* criminals will follow this law to the letter.
Won’t they?
I’ve got to get out of this state.
The sad thing is, it’s just a few counties that make up the bulk of the gun-hating Marxists. Most of the state by area, is conservative. If we could just expel those few counties from the Union . . .
California is heading down the toilet, and they’re spending their time on this?
I have been on your beaches. I have seen many scenic views and I love your weather, but California, you’re not worth it. You’re not salvageable, you have let it go to far.
I think you folks should leave, just don’t move into my neighborhood and try to change it, because deep don’t inside, I am not a nice man.
From the bill
3) Commencing July 1, 2010, a vendor shall not sell or otherwise
transfer ownership of any handgun ammunition without at the time of
delivery legibly recording the following information on a form that
is in a format to be prescribed by the department:
(A) The date of the sale or other transaction.
(B) The purchaser’s or transferee’s driver’s license or other
identification number and the state in which it was issued.
(C) The brand, type, and amount of ammunition sold or otherwise
transferred.
(D) The purchaser’s or transferee’s signature.
(E) The name of the salesperson who processed the sale or other
transaction.
(F) The right thumbprint of the purchaser or transferee on the
above form.
(G) The purchaser’s or transferee’s full residential address and
telephone number.
(H) The purchaser’s or transferee’s date of birth.
(4) Commencing July 1, 2010, the records required by this section
shall be maintained on the premises of the vendor for a period of not
less than five years from the date of the recorded transfer.
But the @$$holes can’t pass a balanced budget.
Yeah, that's really gonna stop a drug dealer or a gang-banger who only needs a few rounds to commit murder and mayhem.
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