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.
Why are we disarming the American Citizens. Obama wants to kill us why do not agree with his communist take over.
there is ways sorry the regime is forcing new underground markets and further division of the government and the people …..so send a man with a gun to threaten my family so even if i give it up next time we disagree i get a man with a gun …………..breaking no laws ……….i guess you forgot if you change a law you must provide an exemption for those who fall under it if not ……………..they are right the revolution is here people are gone taking c**p being beaten lied to manipulated extorted from
make your own!!!
State sovereignty does not trump the Constitution. California is part of the Union Right?
Another reason not to live in California! Someone needs to challenge this law on second amendment grounds if this passes!
F Cali
make your own .california lead law losers…….but we will provail better be voting these murderers out any one who denies a person the right to defend them selves is a murderer
Hitler is really showing himself
They are violating the constitution
And how is this going to help the crime rate? I bet the bad guys are just laughing themselves silly thinking how foolish these gun grabbers are. WTF?!!!