Posted on 07/02/2010 11:25:29 AM PDT by StateAmmunition
A legal challenge to California’s online handgun ammunition sales ban and fingerprint purchasing requirement (AB962) was recently filed in federal court. A copy of the lawsuit is available at the following link:
https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B265PzaPpihQYTlhYWIxNTktYjExNy00YTdiLTk5MjUtZGRhMTJkYzNjMzIz&hl=en
The lawsuit was filed by the Chaffin Law Office http://chaffinlaw.com of Ventura, California, on behalf of three Plaintiffs including State Ammunition Inc., a California company selling ammunition online at http://www.stateammo.com, as well as individuals Jim Otten and Jim Russell, both retired members of the United States Marine Corps. Jim Otten, a Minnesota resident, is the owner of http://www.a1ammo.com, a company outside California claiming that as a result of AB962, it will no longer be able to sell to California residents and Jim Russell, a retired Marine Corps Major and a Shooting Sports Director for the Paralyzed Veterans Association of America, who claims that as a result of AB962, he will be unable to purchase bulk handgun ammunition online which he uses to help disabled veterans with rehabilitative organized shooting activities.
The legal action claims that AB962 violates the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution by banning handgun ammunition sales in anything other than a face-to-face transaction, and therefore eliminating the ability for California residents to buy ammunition from companies outside the state, as well as the ability for companies inside the state to sell to out-of-state residents. Plaintiffs also argue that AB962 violates Equal Protection and Due Process rights by criminalizing sales of handgun ammunition to various prohibited persons without defining handgun ammunition, and without giving people to ability to know who is actually a prohibited purchaser.
The case follows a flurry of anti-gun legislation recently emerging from the Democrat controlled legislature in Sacramento, including AB50 (2004 ban on 50 caliber BMG rifles), AB1471 (2007 requirement for ballistic microstamping technology), SB585 (2009 attempted ban of gun shows at San Francisco Cow Palace), AB1934 (2009 ban of open carry of unloaded firearms in public), AB1810 (2010 attempt to require permanent registration of long guns), AB2223 (2010 attempt to expand the “lead free” Condor Zone banning the most common and most affordable types of ammunition), among numerous other gun relates laws and regulations.
Excellent.
The anti-gun people are the same as the anti-pledge allegiance to our flag people; the anti-prayer in schools etc.; the anti-God people; the anti-war people. They want this nation to resemble the intellect and living conditions of the stone age....who pays these malcontents to disrupt and trash their country? Someone makes a pile of money off their worthless dumb backs while disrupting the rest of happy Americans. Get Rid of Their Sugar Daddies! Annihilate Them!!
I think there's already long standing case law where if the government mandated an entity to be in possession of something that didn't exist, the law was invalid.
the suit is against 962 re ammo sale
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You would think so. However, federal courts have mandated that several large computer corporations provide effective ergonomic keyboards, while simultaneously acknowledging the truth of the defendants argument that none currently existed that were available for production.
I hope your logic rules the day.
Thanks for the support. We need all the help we can get.
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