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.
When are democrats going to get it through their thick skulls that criminals do not get their guns or bullets legally? As long as there are democrats, there will be crookis.
One of these days when We the People have had enough we are going to take up arms and fight anyone who violates our Constitutional rights. If this includes using deadly force to protect our rights then so be it.
ca. is stupid that way…
Kathy, You nailed the truth !
THOSE SONS OF BITCHES OUT IN CALIFARTIA JUST AINT GONNA QUIT UNTILL THERE IS NO BREATH LEFT IN THEIR LUNGS,..EVEN BY A LIBERALS VIEWPOINT THIS IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL…$#%&!@* CALIFOENIA AND EVERY DAM WANTABE LAWMAKER THERE
This is what happens when you keep electing communist democrats
They just opened up a huge market for black market ammo. Stupid liberals!!
Well we have a sorry ass communist muslim president.
Such a joke you don’t need a gun to be a mass murder just look at what Obama does right from the oval office with a pen he has ruined hundreds of thousands and murdered many more with his policy. What makes anyone actually think you could stop violence by tacking away our second admendment rights is beyond me. Criminals will always have guns and plenty of ammo plus other weapons best case senario is to encourage citizens to protect themselves. This is all aimed at chipping and or electronically tagging everyone so as to have ultimate control of the population and their money. Brave new world or the mark of the wild beast you can take your pick but nothing good will become of this.
Come to Mississippi, we will sell you all you want!