Posted on 04/23/2007 8:00:25 AM PDT by SmithL
Unsuccessful at keeping guns from gang members and criminals, California may target a new frontier in its crime-fighting efforts: ammunition.
Guns don't kill, bullets do, argues Assemblyman Kevin de León, a Los Angeles Democrat who is pushing the idea.
"I think it will lead to fewer deaths," he said of regulating handgun ammunition. "But I don't believe it's an end-all or a panacea."
The freshman legislator said his bill is particularly timely, given the rampage at Virginia Tech that left 33 people dead.
De León has proposed Assembly Bill 362 as a step toward making California the first state to conduct instant background checks on buyers of handgun bullets.
Among its provisions, the bill would require that personal information be collected from buyers of handgun ammunition, that such transactions be conducted face-to-face, not by mail, and that retailers store their handgun ammunition behind counters.
Critics claim that tighter regulation of bullet sales would create more hassles and higher costs for gun enthusiasts, but not necessarily cut crime.
"I don't consider criminals dumb," said Sam Paredes, executive director of Gun Owners of California. "They figure out ways to get around whatever is thrown at them."
"You'd have a lot of guys going to Nevada and bringing back a ton of bullets," said Wes Lewis of Guns N Stuff in North Highlands.
State law currently requires buyers of handgun ammunition to be 21 or older. But it does little to ensure compliance or to prevent sales to felons or individuals with a history of mental instability who can't own guns legally but might acquire them from friends or on the black market.
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Daniel Patrick Moynahan, Johnson liberal and drunkard. He wanted to put a 10,000% tax on ammunition.
How about loaded ammo, you idiot? I don't expect much out of Democrapic legislators or reporters, but I expect the gun shop guys to at least know the difference between bullets and loaded ammo.
The black pit of stupidity in government has no bottom.
Simple. Primers will be illegal to own.
They can't ... or they will just ban it.
De León has proposed Assembly Bill 362 as a step toward making California the first state to conduct instant background checks on buyers of handgun bullets.
Sweet ... I'll be sure to have a trunk full of ammo if I go there.
No, this is not stupidity, it’s part of the plan.
bought a couple pounds about a month ago. do they hassle you in CA for that?
FYI
That’s the guy. How soon I forget!!
(Tongue firmly in cheek...) Well, they did say 'bullets' a lot in the article. So, you could still reload, if you didn't use bullets; ain't bulletless rounds called 'blanks'?
Sport shooters would get the fun of shooting, without wasting all them targets by putting holes in them.
That would save paper, that could be better used in bathrooms, which would alleviate the need for Sheryle Crow to only use one square per visit (unless she really REALLY needs two, or even three) and still reduce Global Warming®!
Worse... they will be illegal to possess.
Since he targets specifically "handgun" bullets, I have some questions for him:Is a .22LR a handgun, or a rifle bullet?
.44mag, same question.
Is a semiauto .45 Thompson replica a handgun, or a rifle that uses handgun ammo?
The first doesn't affect me at all, since I only buy .22 cartridges, and don't know of anyone who reloads rimfires.
Actually, back in the 70s, when buying ammo that could be used in a handgun in California, the clerk would ask you if you were going to use it in a rifle or handgun. Then you had to sign a form to that effect.
I always thought that was really stupid. I don’t think they do that any more, but CA has other egregious restrictions on the RKBA. One of many reasons I left that place long ago.
She avoids uncontrolled debate like all liberals. Just like editorial page writes go unchallenged because of the one way nature of their media, the Brady whore and her accomplices only "issue statements" and never reply to challenges unless they set the challenger up themselves to as moronic easily answered questions.
IIRC, the USSC has already indicated such egregious undue burdening of the citizenry to exercise a Constitutional right is within itself, unlawful.
Given that, it very well may open all of California's firearm code to court scrutiny and spell the demise of current state restrictions.
Look what they tried to do in WI under the name of “Anti-Terrorism Legislative Package”
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