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.
california, is liberlys they know nothing of gun control, hell they cant even stop the cops from acking more like the crimines they are supost to protected ourself. from killing family pets, to shoting and hurnting people for no, reason and lets not for get the goverment with army type vehicles on the streets, like a big bully breaking down peoples homes and pointing guns in childerns faces and they wont the public to oboy the laws when we have this c**p going on. wake up america , you;ll be holding your pecker in your hands and no, way to protect your self
Another slap in the face of REEDOM in America.
WHEN THE INVASION REALLY HAPPENS THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO SHOOT THEIR VOTING DUMBOCRAT POPULATION!!
that blows
Sounds like Illinois about 30 years back. I lived there and I experienced their similar tactics. Really curbed crime, didn’t it?
Vote them out!
Welcome to the land of commies! California is known as a communist state and this just proves it.
Another unconstitutional law in the land of fruits and nuts
How Do they want to count them? ONE AT A TIME? OR BY THE BOX?
ill just go buy them somewhere else then