Senate bill (SB) 53, which already has passed the Senate, would require California residents to register themselves with the state, undergo a background check, get fingerprinted, and pay a state fee just to buy a box of bullets.
“SB 53 would require the purchasers of ammunition to register with the state Department of Justice (DOJ) prior to purchasing any ammunition,” a press release from the NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action noted. Purchasers would be required to pay for the fingerprinting and the background check.
The bill states, “This bill would require the Attorney General to also maintain copies of ammunition purchase permits, information about ammunition transactions, as specified, and ammunition vendor licenses, as specified, for those purposes.”
Another Assault On Gun Rights
Supporters say the purpose of the law is to prevent individuals in the DOJ’s Prohibited Persons File from buying ammunition. Prohibited persons include felons, the mentally ill, and persons with restraining orders against them. Another bill in the California state legislature, AB 1014, would allow judges to issue a gun restraining order that could effectively put any citizen in the Prohibited Persons File, as Off The Grid Newspreviously reported. That bill deals with the mentally ill.
“Under existing law, a person who is prohibited from owning or possessing a firearm is prohibited from owning, possessing, or having under his or her custody or control, any ammunition or reloaded ammunition,” the text of legislation states.
Senate Bill 53 was sponsored by state Senator Kevin de Leon (D-Los Angeles), the president pro tem.
De Leon has a long history of supporting gun control legislation. In January De Leon introduced a bill that would ban plastic “ghost guns” that cannot be picked up by metal detectors and would restrict the manufacture of homemade weapons in California.
That is unconstitutional.
This is Bull $#%&!@*
Bull$#%&!@*
Time to take state back
They are endangering innocent lives!
The California Legislature is notorious in it’s never ending attempts to infringe on the 2nd Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens of that State. I have never observed any legislation that they have passed that has reduced gun violence to any degree, and none that has stopped criminals and the mentally deranged from carrying out their acts of violence. Their efforts are woefully misguided and never address the real problem. They cannot contemplate the concept that society is safer when criminals don’t know who is armed, and, of course, criminals are not known to abide by the law anyway.
AND CALIFORNIA MAY PASS A LAW WHERE THE GOVERNER GET LAID WHEN SOMEONE FARTS
$#%&!@* CA that whole state and all those dope smoking hippies the patriots in that state I feel for you. You are up against some dumb pole smoking hippies
California is a laboratory for fascism.
This is just more DC bullshat.