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.
It looks like they are taking the back door on the 2nd Amendment. Hopefully this will be the only state that is this stupid.
Wow–they don’t even want to require all that to let illegals have amnesty or voting rights! Ridiculous, and will not change any safety issues-criminals don’t abide by laws and regulations, you idiots!
It must not pass, if it does, Brown must VETO this Infringement on our second amendment rights !
not right
GOOD LUCK WITH THAT! GOOD LUCK WITH TAKING OUR GUNS TO!
This is so wrong!!!
I don’t think that is right, California is getting crazier and crazier than ever, and call a box of shells bullets, that isn’t what you call them, the bullet is what you get after the gun is fired, It gets so flushrating when in the movies they say I am out of bullets.
I’m tired of waiting for that pinko state to fall into the ocean!
absurd….I will not comply…
stop voting for these crazy people!