The anti-gun bigots are hardly making me want to move back to California:
Gun control advocates in Sacramento are putting a new twist on an old NRA slogan: “Guns don’t kill people — bullets kill people.”
Democratic lawmakers are pushing like never before to regulate or tax ammunition sales. They say the logic is simple: A firearm is nothing but an expensive paperweight without ammunition.
“We regulated gun sales because of our concern about safety, (so) by logical extension we should do so with bullets,” said state Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, whose AB48 will be heard Tuesday by the Assembly Public Safety Committee.
[…]As lawmakers mull how to curb gun violence in the wake of December’s massacre of school children in Newtown, Conn., some note that California and federal laws also forbid those who aren’t allowed to own firearms from owning ammunition — but there’s no way to tell who’s buying it.Skinner’s bill would require all ammo dealers to be licensed and all ammo buyers to provide
identification information that would go to a state registry. The registry could then be compared with a state database of people prohibited from owning guns and ammo because of crimes, mental health issues or other reasons. It also would tip police to massive purchases.
Another bill, SB53 by state Sen. Kevin de Leon, D-Los Angeles, would require a background check and an estimated $50 fee for a one-year permit to buy ammunition. Bills in Congress similarly would require dealer licensing or buyer background checks, but those are no doubt dead on arrival in the Republican-led House.
Only Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey and the District of Columbia now require some sort of license to buy ammunition. New York passed a law in January requiring background checks for ammo purchases, but it hasn’t taken effect yet.
So even in California, where guns are heavily regulated, you can walk into a store, show ID to prove you’re at least 18 (or for handgun ammunition, 21), plunk down your money and walk out with a box of cartridges. Easier yet, you can buy all you want online.
Gun shops report ammo is flying off the shelves as gun owners worry about proposed new laws.
A lot of Californians will do more than worry. They will simply LEAVE, thereby contributing to the exodus from that once-great state. Meanwhile, the dwindling economy will make the clueless control freaks wonder why the productive classes don’t keep on producing.
These people are damn fools who have’n’t a clue. They are chasing out the very people who might be able to turn the state around.
But then, maybe they don’t want to turn the state around. If the goal is ruination, what they are doing makes sense.
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Havo you tried to find ammo lately? It’s maghty rare and mighty expensive. I went to Cabela’s yesterday, and there were 6 whole box of handgun ammo. -All of them for obscure calibers.
Taxing ammunition is just one of 29 bills introduced in the California legislature concerning gun rights. Some California State Senate bills:
SB47 would ban easy change magazine devices, limit magazines to 10 bullets, and permanently affix magazines to the gun so that to reload you would have to put one bullet in at a time.
SB53 requires background check to buy ammunition and yearly fee of $50.00
SB108 mandates trigger locks or lock boxes on guns in your home at all times. So forget about easy access during a home invasion or break in. Also prohibits loaning or using a handgun by anyone else, for any reason, even your wife.
SB293 requires all handguns have a biometric reader safety device.
SB299 requires police notification within 48 hours after a weapon goes missing or is stolen. (This is so that when they get around to actually confiscating guns you can’t claim “it was stolen but I didn’t bother to report it.”
SB374 bans ownership, manufacture, and sale of semi-automatics with detachable magazines.
SB396 would revoke the “grandfathering” of large-capacity magazines owned before 2000, making it illegal to even possess any magazine that holds more than 10 rounds.
SB567 would ban “rifled bore” shotguns with revolving cylinders. Smooth bore are already banned.
SB755 expands the list of misdemeanors that prohibit gun ownership.
State Assembly bills would tax ammunition sales with a 10% special tax, as well as 5 cents a bullet. Require CALPERS state pension fund to divest ownership in any company that sells or manufactures guns. Force all ammunitions sellers to be specially licensed, with a fee of course, keep a registry of ammunition sales and turn that information over to the state which would notify local law enforcement of large sales. And finally, give the city of Oakland special permission to enact stricter gun laws than state law, which would create the beginnings of a patchwork of city and county laws making gun ownership impossible depending on where someone moves. Move from Hayward to Oakland? Sell your gun or you’re breaking the law.
INSANITY!
And the people that elected the legislators they are now fleeing will set about electing similar idiots in their new state. That’s exactly what the Yankees did when they fled the Rust Belt and brought their charms to The South.
Few people learn from experience, they just replay it.
Scott, other than a few techy types from the Bay Area who’ve moved to Seattle or Austin, people who are leaving California did NOT vote for the bastards who have destroyed the state. Most of interior California and the northern 1/3 are Republican strongholds that are outvoted by LA and the Bay Area.
Here is a list of California counties where Romney got a plurality of the vote in the last election and the percentages:
Amador 58%
Butte 50.3%
Calaveras 57%
Colusa 60%
Del Norte 54%
El Dorado 58%
Fresno 51%
Glenn 61%
Inyo 54%
Kern 58%
Kings 57%
Lassen 68%
Madera 59%
Mariposa 57%
Nodoc 70%
Nevada 51%
Orange 53%
Placer 59%
Plumas 57%
Riverside 49% (Obama 48%)
Shasta 63%
Sierra 59%
Siskiyou 56%
Tehama 62%
Trinity 58%
Tuolumne 56%
Yuba 58%
But it only takes a million vote lead in LA county and 80% leads in populous counties like San Francisco and Alameda to nullify the will of the the rest of the state.
California is a perfect example of democratic dictatorship. Coming to a state near you, soon.
And Tulare 58%