Start with the head stamp. If manufacturer didn't ship to CA in that year, you are out of luck.
If you buy boxes of 20 (rifle) or 50 (pistol), there is a lot number on the box. There is a lot of information behind that lot number. Including where the manufacturer shipped the product.
“If you buy boxes of 20 (rifle) or 50 (pistol), there is a lot number on the box. There is a lot of information behind that lot number. Including where the manufacturer shipped the product. “
Any copper who would enforce this law is just as bad as the sons of bitches who passed it.
If you kill all your boxes and just keep the ammo.... and make sure the manufacturer shipped to CA... you are still okay, right?
I mean this is such a BS law. Maybe CA will make ammo makers engrave each round.
I expect kaleeforna to use tax stamps on ammo boxes similar to those for cigarettes.
” ‘...How can they know?...’
Start with the head stamp. If manufacturer didn’t ship to CA in that year, you are out of luck. ...”
Headstamps containing the date are found only on ammunition made to MIL STD only. US commercial ammunition bears manufacturer and caliber information.
Some foreign-made ammunition is stamped with otherwise unannotated numbers, but these digits do not always indicate the date of manufacture.
That is not the last word on enforceability headaches.
Many commercial reloading companies exist. Often, they obtain once-fired cases in military chamberings, which bear headstamps indicating original date of manufacture. They produce remanufactured ammunition using these cases. Would the law apply to original year of manufacture, or to year of remanufacture?
I will just dump it out of the boxes and into my surplus ammo cans.