Posted on 06/18/2009 6:05:15 PM PDT by JoeProBono
Sacramento, CA - The State Assembly has passed Assembly Bill 962, by a vote of 42-31. AB 962 now heads to the Senate, where it has been assigned to the Senate Public Safety Committee. The bill, sponsored by Assemblyman Kevin de Leon (D-Los Angeles), would make it a crime to privately transfer more than 50 rounds of ammunition per month.Ammunition retailers would have to be licensed, and would be required to store ammunition in such a manner that it would be inaccessible to purchasers.
The bill would also require purchasers submit to fingerprinting, which would be submitted to the Department of Justice. Additionally, mail order ammunition sales would be prohibited. The bill would essentially criminalize the transfer of one box of ammunition to even a family member or friend, unless you are registered as a "handgun ammunition vendor" in the Department of Justice's database.
Local Assemblymen Anthony Adams (R-Hesperia), Paul Cook (R-Yucca Valley) and Bill Emmerson (R-Redlands) voted against AB 962.
No one asked me for advice but if Californians can’t vote out the tyrants, move to a redder state. The place is lost, let it sink and die from advanced incurable socialism.
The part about making sure that customers can't access the ammo would force retailers to store the ammo either in locked cases or behind the counter, greatly reducing the supply they could stock, thus cranking up the price.
Oh, well. It'll just create another black market and another class of law-abiding “criminals.”
Dear “Kal-if-forn-e-a”
U be broke and have udder stuf to worree aboot. U know it be challenged in coort and u lose (wich costs monee).
Da Cracker-Rapper has spoken.
Someone should Transfer 42 Congressmen, from Sacramento to the Streets.
Will this mean more ammo for Free America?
California ought to secede and establish their own socialist nation. This is preposterous.
good thing I don’t live in CA, I think I just broke their law today!
I don’t know if this has ever been discussed. Can a state be expelled from the Union?
Wow! These people are broke and this is what they are worried about?
If I was a gun manufacturer, I would simply stop shipping to the police departments.
guess that's what it will come to.
Are we going to be reduced to machete's and voodoo like Kenya?
>> Oh, well. It’ll just create another black market and another class of law-abiding “criminals.”
Think of the lives it will save, though — as true criminals are captured in droves as they submit to fingerprinting when they buy their drive-by-shooting ammo.
Because you *know* that the *real* criminals will follow this law to the letter.
Won’t they?
I’ve got to get out of this state.
The sad thing is, it’s just a few counties that make up the bulk of the gun-hating Marxists. Most of the state by area, is conservative. If we could just expel those few counties from the Union . . .
California is heading down the toilet, and they’re spending their time on this?
I have been on your beaches. I have seen many scenic views and I love your weather, but California, you’re not worth it. You’re not salvageable, you have let it go to far.
I think you folks should leave, just don’t move into my neighborhood and try to change it, because deep don’t inside, I am not a nice man.
From the bill
3) Commencing July 1, 2010, a vendor shall not sell or otherwise
transfer ownership of any handgun ammunition without at the time of
delivery legibly recording the following information on a form that
is in a format to be prescribed by the department:
(A) The date of the sale or other transaction.
(B) The purchaser’s or transferee’s driver’s license or other
identification number and the state in which it was issued.
(C) The brand, type, and amount of ammunition sold or otherwise
transferred.
(D) The purchaser’s or transferee’s signature.
(E) The name of the salesperson who processed the sale or other
transaction.
(F) The right thumbprint of the purchaser or transferee on the
above form.
(G) The purchaser’s or transferee’s full residential address and
telephone number.
(H) The purchaser’s or transferee’s date of birth.
(4) Commencing July 1, 2010, the records required by this section
shall be maintained on the premises of the vendor for a period of not
less than five years from the date of the recorded transfer.
But the @$$holes can’t pass a balanced budget.
Yeah, that's really gonna stop a drug dealer or a gang-banger who only needs a few rounds to commit murder and mayhem.
Sounds like a good money making opportunity to me.
Anybody know of an acre or two of land just across the border into Arizona or Nevada?
That’s what happens here in TX when a county is “dry”.
Good idea but they will just outlaw that too.
Like eggs
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“..would make it a crime to privately transfer more than 50 rounds of ammunition per month.”
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Buy your ammo from the criminals — they will transport a much larger quantity of ammo per month.
thank God for Tom Burcynsk... an old friend and inventor of the Hydra-Shok.
Man, I’m glad I left Cali for a free state.
Anybody know of an acre or two of land just across the border into Arizona or Nevada?
A Capitalist speaks.
Prime locations:
Exit 1, Interstate 10, Arizona
Exit 2, Interstate 8, Yuma, Arizona
i'm up to the ambush after sighting in the M-16's...
Get ‘em while they’re legal!
Best reason I have seen yet why I will never live again in California.
“If you cannot defend yourself, you become a slave”.
Used to get so bad here dry counties would put undercover cops in the parking lots of booze joints just across the county line taking license plate numbers and car descriptions, radioing them to compadres that would stop the offenders on the way home. Crazy, but once again was nothing but a revenue generator.
Amazingly totalitarian.
Don't kid yourself that they won't. NJ charges an exit tax if you sell your property and move out of state.
Buy stock in Lyman, RCBS and Dillion Precision.
I’m afraid you may very well be right.
Wow, this is really under the radar. I just went to the Sacramento Bee website, couldn’t find a word about it there. Not entirely surprising though.
Wonder if our action-hero governor will sign it?
That’s what happens here in TX when a county is “dry”.
I was thinking more of fireworks stands just outside of areas where sales are prohibited, but the liquor store is another fine example.
You know... Some laws are so incredibly stupid as to be unenforceable, especially when sensible citizens know and refuse to to surrender their inalienable, constitutional RIGHTS!!!
So, no, we are not lost yet and this crap is just a little deeper hole that the dimwits and RINOs have dug for themselves. Add it to the economy blunders and it looks bad for incumbents.
Oh I am so looking forward to breaking this law with my brothers in California!!!!!
Taking one of your bikes, at least? Good luck there. I share your misgivings about visiting CA at this time for any number of reasons.
Yes. I put a hitch on the Mercury Mariner Hybrid this morning. I have a single rail carrier coming into the Yamaha shop at noon tomorrow. It can carry 400 lbs. While I would love to have the DR650SE, it's a lot of bike to load by myself at 324 lbs dry. I'm going to take the Yamaha XT250 at 280 lbs. I can nearly lift the bike off the ground without ramp. I'm disappointed that I have to leave just as the weather is warming up. I'll really miss the Roadliner. No touring this year. The snow will be falling before I can get home to enjoy it. The Roadliner is 750 lbs. It would take a real trailer and I would have to take the F150 4x4 in place of the Mariner due to the 1000 lb towing limit of the Hybrid drive train. That's a non-starter due to the 60 mile round trip to work. That will be done in the Mariner. The F150 only gets 18 MPG vs 27+ in the Mariner.
Are things drying out enough in your area to do some off road riding? We've had thunderstorms every day for weeks. The snow is gone, but the soil is still too muddy. There's no way I'm going to risk riding a ridge top with cloud to ground lightning. The ridges have been quite a light show for weeks. I also wanted to take the bikes up to the sand dunes in St. Anthony this summer. That will have to be deferred as well.
Something more like this:
Which "eats" these:
(That's AF Chief Master Sergeant Tanya Breed doing the honors with the Barrett)
Actually that's a replacement image. :)
Coming to your state soon bump.
You’re getting to the fun parts!
It’s been dry here. The rains seemed to start right about at the Idaho stateline. Someone I know about 55 miles north of Boise previously owned some alpine land. Now it is more like swamp.
Don’t buy any property while in California — too early yet.
Somebody want to explain to me again how ONLY a little part of Kali is blue and the rest red but this kind of horsesh*t can pass.
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