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.
fu them
WHAT GOOD IS A GUN WITH OUT BULLETS…STOP THIS NOW…THEY DO NOT WANT US TO BE ABLE TO FIGHT BACK
Socialism/ Communism has been in full swing for years in this country. Thanks a lot liberals, non voters, and those who just don’t care.
and their going to put up with this? this is one of the reasons I Left Cali for good. I dont miss those loony toons!
Don’t register $#%&!@*!!!
CAN YOU BELIVE THIS $#%&!@*? CAL.ARE DOING WHAT EVER THEY CAN TO MAKE IT HARD ON AMERICANS.VOTE THEM OUT OF OFFICE.
Finally!
Maybe because their are so many illegals there and what a way to get more from the law biding citizens of California. The more you pay for bullets the more that store has to pay in taxes.
Rest assured that the ones who use guns in criminal activities will follow these guidelines.
Haha and still criminals won’t care.