Posted on 09/09/2018 6:06:14 PM PDT by EdnaMode
SACRAMENTO — Sold from vending machines in Pennsylvania, feed depots in Nevada, pharmacies in Georgia and jewelry stores in Texas, ammunition is in many states easier to buy than cold medicine. But in California, which already enforces some of the nation’s most restrictive gun laws, there is a movement underway against the unfettered sale of bullets.
Gun control advocates here have pushed to limit internet sales, ban large-capacity magazines, require sellers to have licenses, raise taxes on bullets, and mandate serial numbers or other traceable markings on ammunition so that the police can more easily track them.
Such regulations, several of which have been enacted and take effect this year and next, are inspired by the view that the best way to limit gun violence is to approach it as a “bullet control” problem. As Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a Democrat from New York, told the Senate 25 years ago, when he introduced legislation that would have imposed a 10,000-percent tax on hollow-tip ammunition, “guns don’t kill people; bullets do.”
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“Doesn’t matter if they achieve only a small percentage of smuggling enforcement. California is a leading example of anarchy-tyranny. In this case the gang bangers will be swimming in ammo. But some working shlub who brings back a few rounds will be fined and might find himself jobless. Harassing the law abiding on what should be legal behavior is all they care about. Mainly because it is easy money, the law abiding don’t fight back, but also to promote the liberal agenda.”
They won’t even achieve a small percentage of success. This law is virtually unenforceable as there are less than 500 agents who can enforce these laws and they won’t get much help any other agency. People already come in from CA to buy ammunition and not one arrest has been made.
I have heard the speculation about Kennedy. I hope he has been the log-jam, but I often wonder about Roberts. It only takes 4 votes to hear a case. We have Thomas and Gorsuch, and, I think, Kavanaugh. We more likely have Alito than Roberts. It may be enough.
They were in a private gun club.
i see ads runnign now with kids askign heir parents ‘Is there a gun in the house’ and the parents looking dumbfounded on how to answer- like they are guilty of something-
Tryign to shame households into relinquishing their INALIENABLE RIGHT to self protection
If they backdoor-ban bullets, the only people they’ll hurt are reloaders. They’d need to ban CARTRIDGES — the entire assembled round — to deprive people of ammunition.
A bullet is just the projectile, not the case or the primer or the propellant.
More firearm illiteracy on display.
So yet another out of context overreaction by the media.
Went to a restaurant in the rural part of NE Pennsylvania last year and they still had two cigarette vending machines, nostalgic section by the bar but you could still get a pack of Marlboros. Guess that’s why the ammo machine seemed somewhat believable.
Roberts has been a disappointment and looks to be the new swing vote to keep the status quo.
My press is well employed, but even that has an achilles heel. Powder, primers, brass and bullets. Of the 4 items, primers are a "must buy" item. Brass can be reused typical 10 times before some extra attention is required to anneal the work hardening and trim the brass. Turning necks on rifle brass to keep in concentric and true is sometimes needed. Bullets can be cast although it's pretty hard to match a top of the line Hornady AMAX-ELD for long distance shooting. Poweder? That's a pretty high tech mix if you want any kind of consistency. There's easily a hundred different products today with a wide variation in burn rates that are tailored for specific uses.
For short time, your reloading tools and supplies will keep you going. Eventually, the banners will seize control of the components too.
Regulating ammo is the same as regulating paper and ink supplies to the commercial press. It is a direct infringement on the ability to exercise a protected right.
“mandate serial numbers or other traceable markings on ammunition so that the police can more easily track them.”
This is such an airheaded approach
that is easily circumvented.
That is one of the routes that let you avoid the checkpoint. From Bull Head City/Laughlin, in through Desert Center then on to Palm Springs/LA.
And yet not a single sole that read it did not know what they were talking about. If a banger loads a clip in his glock and shoots you, you are still dead even though he didn't know he actually loaded a magazine, not a clip.
I talked to an immigrant from the former Soviet Union. Even there, you could get powder and primers for shotgun shells.
He said they only had two kinds of powder, black, and smokeless. He preferred black because the smokeless was much more finicky.
Confuse them...and ask about shotgun pellets.........
Good info.
“Eventually, the banners will seize control of the components too.”
Only if we allow it.
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Striving for gun free states a criminals Disneyland
True. But maybe the people writing articles about the topic shouldn’t be quite as ignorant as some street trash.
Great link!
Though non-corrosive primers still require restricted/registered purchases. Ammo will always be the weak link, but there is always plenty around for those willing to work for it.
I believe the proper military term is expedient acquisition. It’s second nature to most Marines I know. LOL
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