Posted on 10/12/2009 12:27:47 PM PDT by GL of Sector 2814
Sacramento, CA – Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law legislation that will help law enforcement officials track down and apprehend armed criminals and other prohibited persons. AB 962 by Assembly Member Kevin DeLeon (D-Los Angeles) had the support of law enforcement officials from across the state and was modeled after successful city ordinances, including the cities of Sacramento and Los Angeles. AB 962 was the Brady Campaign´s top priority bill in this year´s legislature.
The law requires maintenance of purchaser records by handgun ammunition vendors. Local law enforcement can use these records to find illegal guns.
"The purchase records will provide our police officers with yet another tool to track down and apprehend armed and dangerous criminals," said Paul Helmke, President of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
The new law also requires the safe storage of handgun ammunition in stores and that all handgun ammunition sales be completed in face-to-face transactions. Sacramento and Los Angeles have had great success over the last few years with similar city ordinances. "Law enforcement officials in both cities have had great success in tracking down violent criminals who purchased ammunition in Sacramento and Los Angeles," said Ellen Boneparth, President of the California Brady Campaign Chapters. "Our California Brady Chapters were instrumental in urging cities to pass the local ordinances and getting strong support statewide for AB 962."
A 2006 study by the Rand Corporation on Los Angeles´ city ordinance showed 10,050 rounds of ammunition were purchased by prohibited persons in a period of just two months. The study concluded "…monitoring ammunition transactions may help reduce the supply of ammunition to criminals and the frequency of injuries from felonious gun assaults. Such a record can also provide information for generating leads on illegal firearm possession."
Gov Wimponator got elected as a tough, non-”girly man” conservative.
Then he folded and became the Dem’s eager butt boy.
Sorry we voted for him. We mistakenly thought the silver screen tuogh guy was tough in person, ala Reagan.
He has been governing to the left of Grey Davis, the Dem he ousted for being to leftist.
Shows it a mistake to expect balls on a man married to the Kennedy clan.
Hello! Vegas here! Weather is just great! the gun club behind my house if just right this time of year. Come take a trip. We’d love to have you!
The only thing “Progressive” about California, is that they are progressively moving backward
For a couple of years here, it was fairly common to get an answer of B.L.O.A.T. to a political question. I guess many took it to heart.
Q: “The President is monitoring domestic phonecalls and plans to shut down the Web! What can we do?”
A: “BLOAT!”
This will lead to off-the-record black-market ammo purchases and transactions.
Arnold and Bloomberg need to switch parties...
Implicit is the assumption that criminals won't choose to buy their ammo off the back of a truck. Way to go, musclehead!
Just keep voting those republicans in.
Don’t blame me... I voted for Bustamante. And then I moved.
When does it take effect?
There, fixed it.
The shape of things to come, under The Magic Negro.
He hopes.
Thought that was true only for mil-spec ammo with corrosive primers.
Ah, yes, we are all nostalgic for another Rose Bird appointment to CA supremes.
BLOAT
I’ve shot civilian ammo that was 40 years old, no problem.
I wouldn't be too sure of that, amigo.
Remember, Bill Ayers back in 1971 described a mass-reeducation program involving transportation and concentration (with about 25,000,000 regime murders of incorrigibles like us).
And where would they get the personnel to run a system like that, of open-air camps a la Buchenwald and Belsen?
For cadre, they'd go to the leftist street scum of San Francisco and New York, the ACORN activists and bicycle trash, and turn them into training staff that would be charged with indoctrinating and triaging the People of the United States.
For their security staff, they'd go to the prisons, seek out the violent sadists incarcerated there, and tell them, "Have we got a deal for you ......"
That's what they'd do.
“Ahnold is living proof that if the GOP is backing a candidate, watch your back.”
I hear ya, Dan, I hear ya.
Thanks moocho!
Hey, wait a minute. Colorado? ... That's not Sector 2814!
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