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.
How about a Liberal/Progressive Registration to curb violence?
When a State runs a muck and doesn’t listen to it’s voters it needs to control ammunition to protect themselves from the voters that are sick of them.
REGISTER ALL DEMOCRTS TO SPEED UP THE ROUND UP AND EXICUTIONS.., we let them off for the civil war, there’s no free pass this time.
The good people of California better wake up and not accept this nonsense any longer. California has the most Communistic, Socialistic, dis-functional legislature in the country. They can only think of repression and coercion and never freedom or liberty. Immediately file a proposition and be ready with a massive lawsuit with an injunction.
How ludicrously stupid . . . register for ammo? The have lost all senses . . .
CA has a bunch of idiot fascist running their government!
WAR is COMING! And SOONER than most know!
And I am all for it! I look forward to another civil war, so WE THE PEOPLE can make the retards understand WHO is in charge!
I’ll stay where I am until the real fight begins.Locked n loaded
so glad i have allot of it before this pos did this…