Posted on 04/20/2009 10:28:34 PM PDT by Steelfish
California gun laws could get tighter
On the tenth anniversary of the deadly high school shootings in Columbine, Colo., California lawmakers announced new efforts to keep guns and ammunition away from people who are barred from possessing those items.
Assemblyman Kevin de Leon, D-Los Angeles, is backing a bill to require people who sell handgun ammunition to be licensed. It would also require sellers to conduct business face-to-face, bar Internet or mail order sales and require a thumbprint and other identifying information of people who buy ammunition.
That information would be given to state officials who could check it against the rolls of people who are barred from possessing ammunition. Sacramento currently enforces such limitations and the chief of police said Monday that 50 people have been arrested since the rules took effect in January 2008.
De Leon said the bill would close "dangerous loopholes" in California law. A similar bill that aimed to stop sales of ammunition to prohibited people died in the state Senate last year.
Another bill, introduced by Assemblyman Paul Krekorian, D-Burbank, would establish a new procedure for people who are barred from possessing guns to relinquish those weapons.
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The good old, Commie ‘RATS. You can always count on them to exploit dead people for political gain. Always.
“would establish a new procedure for people who are barred from possessing guns to relinquish those weapons.”
HAHAHA, right, thats funny. They were not supposed to have originally committed the crime(which was illegal) that now makes them ineligible to own firearms. Like they are going to all of a sudden respect your law, just because you pass another one.
These rats still think we don’t realize that CRIMINALS DO NOT OBEY LAWS. So what is the point in burdening and harassing law abiding citizens about gun ownership? It is simple. It distills down to WHY the Founding Fathers added the Second Amendment to the Constitution. It is the oppressive libs that are paranoid. There is no other LOGICAL explanation for such stupidity. If criminals want firearms, they will easily get them — regardless of what harassing laws are enacted against law abiding citizens.
I doubt a massacre anniversary means anything to a CA politician. However, there was a lot of tea parties in California. Now, that got their attention.
It appears vocalizing a moot point is one way the political class can vent fear safely.
Got to be something in the water out there!
Didn’t their Supreme Court rule TODAY that “shall not be infringed” is incorporated against the States?
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