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radioburning
03-27-2008, 02:43 PM
Found this on the California Predators Club forum today. I'm getting sick and tired of these rats trying to stab us in the back!

California Assembly to Consider Severe
Restrictions on Ammunition Sales!
Stand Up and Make Your Voice Heard Today!


Next Wednesday, March 25, the Assembly Public Safety Committee will consider legislation that would require gun owners to obtain a “permit-to-purchase” before buying handgun ammunition.

Introduced by State Assembly Member Kevin De Leon (D-45), Assembly Bill 2062 puts ammunition sales in the crosshairs. AB2062 would require that law-abiding gun owners obtain a permit to buy handgun ammunition and would impose severe restrictions on the private transfers of handgun ammunition. Applicants for a “permit-to-purchase” would be required to submit to a background check, pay a $35 fee, and wait as long as 30 days to receive the permit.



Under AB2062, it would be unlawful to privately transfer more than 50 rounds of ammunition per month, even between family and friends, unless you are registered as a “handgun ammunition vendor” in the Department of Justice’s database. Ammunition retailers would have to be licensed and store ammunition in such a manner that it would be inaccessible to purchasers. The bill would also require vendors to keep a record of the transaction including the ammunition buyer’s name, driver’s license, the quantity, caliber and type of ammunition purchased, and right thumbprint, which would be submitted to the Department of Justice or the number of his handgun ammunition purchase permit. Vendors would be required to contact the purchase permit database, to verify the validity of a permit before completing a sale. All ammunition sales in the State of California would be subject to a $3 per transaction tax. Lastly, mail order ammunition sales would be prohibited. Any violator of AB2062 would be subject to civil fines.

Please contact the members of the Assembly Public Safety Committee and your State Assembly Member TODAY and respectfully urge them to oppose this onerous attack on our Second Amendment freedoms. Contact information for the committee members can be found below. Please click here to find your State Assembly Member.

State Assembly Member Jose Solorio (D-69), Chair

(916) 319-2069
Assemblymember.solorio@assembly.ca.gov


State Assembly Member Greg Aghazarian, (R-26), Vice Chair

(916) 319-2026
Assemblymember.aghazarian@assembly.ca.gov


State Assembly Member Joel Anderson (R-77)

(916) 319-2077
Assemblymember.Anderson@assembly.ca.gov


State Assembly Member Hector De La Torre (D-50)

(916) 319-2050
Assemblymember.DeLaTorre@assembly.ca.gov



State Assembly Member Fiona Ma (D-12)

(916) 319-2012
Assemblymember.Ma@assembly.ca.gov



State Assembly Member Anthony J. Portantino (D-44)

(916) 319-2044
Assemblymember.Portantino@assembly.ca.gov

Prc329
03-27-2008, 02:47 PM
http://nramemberscouncils.com/legs.shtml?summary=ab2062&year=2008

Hearing got moved to April.

rue
03-27-2008, 04:01 PM
Just called every number on the list. Took less than 5 mins at most. Funny that the lady who picked up at the vice chair's number is pro gun. I suggest everyone call and be heard. All the other offices except Anderson and the vice chair's seemed annoyed that they had to take my call as soon as I mentioned the bill number. LOL

Ironchef
03-27-2008, 04:14 PM
I'm tellin' you, they're girding up their loins for a new approach since the SCOTUS will liberate the guns...they'll just attack the ammo..which doesn't really have any 2a protection that I can see. $5000 bullets are coming and Chris Rock is a prophet.

50 Freak
03-27-2008, 04:54 PM
$5000 bullets are coming

I hope so, I'm sitting on tens of millions of dollars then.

hoffmang
03-27-2008, 04:59 PM
Heller is about functional firearms. Ammunition is required for functional firearms like paper is required for printing presses.

-Gene

razorx
03-27-2008, 05:05 PM
How about proposing an ammo tax like a cigarette tax? There are all kinds of ways to go with this.

Though "50 Freak" may have something there... $5000 a bullet. That would compromise my principles :43:

Fate
03-27-2008, 05:12 PM
If I recall correctly, a little thing called a Tea Tax started some problems for King George back in Boston. The new kings should read a history book.

razorx
03-27-2008, 06:09 PM
If I recall correctly, a little thing called a Tea Tax started some problems for King George back in Boston. The new kings should read a history book.


It's all about market timing :) Though, seeing how this goes may mean some large purchases in my future...

CowboyShooter
03-27-2008, 06:46 PM
Found this on the California Predators Club forum today. I'm getting sick and tired of these rats trying to stab us in the back!

California Assembly to Consider Severe
Restrictions on Ammunition Sales!
Stand Up and Make Your Voice Heard Today!


Next Wednesday, March 25, the Assembly Public Safety Committee will consider legislation that would require gun owners to obtain a “permit-to-purchase” before buying handgun ammunition.

Introduced by State Assembly Member Kevin De Leon (D-45), Assembly Bill 2062 puts ammunition sales in the crosshairs.


see http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?t=92230 for previous discussion thread

sbjmg
03-28-2008, 11:43 AM
It only take 3-5 minutes to call all of these numbers. Everyone should do it.

yellowfin
03-28-2008, 03:03 PM
Heller is about functional firearms. Ammunition is required for functional firearms like paper is required for printing presses.

-Gene Do you think the people pushing this honestly give a rat's rear end for what the law says, even when determined by the Supreme Court?