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.
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Nope. Gun owners and advocates should just leave the state, and let it get filled with liberal morons so that when California falls into the Pacific the country will be better off.
Sounds like another way for them to make money for doing nothing, and trampling all over our freedom.
Buy them online
Buy them across the state line
Does California have a ban on even viewing the constitution , is there any one who understands it out there or what California has to be the most $#%&!@*ed up state every one promotes freedom out there I guess it’s only free to get married to the same sex have a abortion or destroy the morality of society through film/tv that’s got to be the only thing your free to do
And the statist speaks had to look through a couple of comments but found one and any law against a person owning is infringing on the second amendment but some people don’t understand that obviously
Steve Stoddard is right be a big black market for it then holder will get busted selling it to the cartels in operation too fast too furious
Not gonna fly. Needs to go straight to the Supreme Court.
I hope we don’t have to do it again, but if we do there will be a purging of dictatorial thinking.