Attention California Gun Owners

California State Legislation (NRA-ILA) ^ | April 29,2008 | NRA-ILA

[kimber]

Anti-gun hysteria has reached a fever pitch in the Golden State.  The California Assembly is considering a bill (Assembly Bill 2062) this session that, if passed, will have dire consequences for California’s law-abiding gun owners.

AB2062 is scheduled to be heard on Wednesday, May 7 in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.  Sponsored by State Assembly Member Kevin De Leon (D-45), AB2062 would require that law-abiding gun owners obtain a permit to buy handgun ammunition and would impose severe restrictions on the private transfers of handgun ammunition.  Applicants for a “permit-to-purchase” would be required to submit to a background check, pay a $35 fee, and wait as long as 30 days to receive the permit. 

Under AB2062, it would be unlawful to privately transfer more than 50 rounds of ammunition per month, even between family and friends, unless you are registered as a “handgun ammunition vendor” in the Department of Justice’s database.  Ammunition retailers would have to be licensed and store ammunition in such a manner that it would be inaccessible to purchasers.  The bill would also require vendors to keep a record of the transaction including the ammunition buyer’s name, driver’s license, the quantity, caliber, type of ammunition purchased, and right thumbprint, which would be submitted to the Department of Justice.  Vendors would be required to contact the purchase permit database to verify the validity of a permit before completing a sale.  All ammunition sales in the State of California would be subject to a $3 per transaction tax.  Lastly, mail order ammunition sales would be prohibited.  Any violator of AB2062 would be subject to civil fines.

Here’s what you can do to help protect our Second Amendment freedoms:

• Participate in NRA’s Virtual “Lobby-Day” on Tuesday, May 6 and tell the Assembly to stop supporting ill-conceived anti-gun proposals like AB2062. 
   
• On Tuesday, May 6, call, fax, and email the Assembly between 9:00 AM until 4:00 PM and voice your opposition to more gun control proposals. Respectfully, tell your Assembly Member to oppose any assault on our Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.  To identify your Assembly Member and to get contact information, please click here.  A roster of the entire Assembly can be found here.
   
• Firearms owners able to travel to the State Capitol will be visiting the legislative offices at the same time your calls, faxes, and emails will be arriving. Please be polite while you address your concerns!  The combination of your calls, faxes, and emails, together with those personal visits, will show legislators that California's firearms owners strongly oppose AB2062 and similar anti-freedom proposals.
   
• Forward this message to every gun owner you know and include all gun clubs, stores, ranges and Second Amendment groups.  Please cross-post this on the internet on websites and firearm-related forums.

 TOGETHER, OUR VOICES WILL BE HEARD!

TOGETHER, WE CAN STOP THE ANTI-FREEDOM FORCES AND
PROTECT OUR RIGHTS!

[kimber]

The argument that "the right of the people" is subject to reasonable regulation and restriction tramples on the very words of the Second Amendment, reading the phrase -- "shall not be infringed" -- as if it read "shall be subject only to reasonable regulation to achieve public safety." "Public safety" is frequently a canard that tyrants hide behind to justify their oppressive policies. No government deprives its citizens of rights without asserting that its actions are "reasonable" and "necessary" for high-sounding reasons such as "public safety." A right that can be regulated is no right at all, only a temporary privilege dependent upon the good will of the very government officials that such right is designed to constrain.

[navyguy]

I’m sure the Crips, the Bloods, MS-13 and a hundred other street gangs in Mexifornia are just trembling over this new bill.

Just another reason I no longer live in that Nanny State hell hole.

[FreePaul]

Ban ammunition. Solve all problems. Worked with drugs, didn't it? May be more profitable to smuggle ammunition to California than drugs to there or anywhere else.

How will the gang bangers be able to reload (legally)? Will they care?

[B4Ranch]

If this issue isn’t enough to get California voters to pick up the telephone then they don’t deserve to be armed.

[rickomatic]

I wonder if RCBS,LEE,Hornady,or Dillon are listed on the stock exchange. Might be time to buy some stock, as well as stock up.

[TexasRepublic]

To paraphrase Robin Williams last night, perhaps developing countries should borrow our Constitution — because we aren’t using it.

[PubliusMM]

This legislation is an abomination. The control-freak legislators in Kalifornia are seeking to extend the liberal DhimmiRat philosophy that they know what is best for the citizens of the state, no matter the cost or Constitutional violations.
If the citizens of Kalifornia don’t see the vile, illegal, immoral nature of this bit of communism, then they may well deserve its damaging outcome. If they refuse to raise their voices against this claptrap, then they will get exactly the government they deserve.

Pathetic. Dangerous and pathetic.

[smoketree]

Then they’ll figure out some insane way to ban reloaded ammo.

[VeniVidiVici]

I’m sure the Crips, the Bloods, MS-13 and a hundred other street gangs in Mexifornia are just trembling over this new bill.

I'm sure they are. The additional paperwork alone means they'll have to hire more HR and accountants. The increased costs means they'll have to raise extortion and drug prices.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Hey! I picked up the phone a couple of weeks ago, due to an NRA notice.

I actually talked the Dem lady who answered the phone into going to a range and go shooting!

I kid you not! :)

Now............as to the REST of us......

[paul51]

Bump

[Doomonyou]

BLOAT!

[An Old Man]

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress.

The awkward time is almost over. What are you going to do then?

Semper Fi
An Old Man

[Still Thinking]

If they refuse to raise their voices against this claptrap, then they will get exactly the government they deserve.

Unfortunately, WE end up getting the government they deserve. After their pet socialist pols ruin the state, they're smart enough to get out, invading Arizona or Nevada, but they're not smart enough to make the connection between the way they've always voted and the results. Typical liberals, can't grasp the connection between cause and effect (and yet we get stuck with the tab). :-(

[calcowgirl]

Hey! I picked up the phone a couple of weeks ago, due to an NRA notice. I actually talked the Dem lady who answered the phone into going to a range and go shooting!

AWESOME! lol. You're my hero. :-)

[Brad’s Gramma]

I think it was when I told her that women were “naturally” better aims at the targets than men...that she turned the corner.

Hey, whatever it takes. One. Woman. At. A. Time.

:)

[Richard Kimball]

I’ve always found shooting to be pretty gender neutral, with women doing well because they tend to have a lighter touch. I do find that matching the weapon to the size and strength of the individual is important. It makes me go “grrrr” whenever I see a guy take a woman out and give her a weapon that’s way too powerful for her, especially when she’s a novice. I think guys do it to make themselves feel like big shots. I started my daughter out with a bb gun and moved up to a .22.

[AuntB]

BTT!!

[Brad’s Gramma]

I started my daughter out with a bb gun and moved up to a .22.

Good job!!!!

[calcowgirl]

Hey, whatever it takes.

You betcha!

One. Woman. At. A. Time.

One gut-hating liberal at a time? LOL.