Great time to open ammo stores just over the line in border states.
Yep. Lots of day trips to Arizona coming up.
Oh, but they require you buy your ammo only from CA approved sellers. Importation not allowed?
Headshake.
"These controls require that all ammunition be purchased in-state"
You can be sure that California will have agents making note of all cars with CA license plates in the parking lots of those ammo stores, and CA state troopers will pull them over and search them as soon as they cross the border.
Additionally, if the police search your home and discover a non-CA box of ammo whose manufacturer's batch number shows it was made after Jan 1, 2018, then they will have an open and shut conviction.
The law specifically bans buying and bringing it back into California except through a local, state-approved dealer. I haven’t been to California since the first of the year but wonder if their entry checkpoints now have signs and are they now actively checking for ammo in addition to citrus, etc.
And just out of sight of the border, too.