This is the NRA’s latest email. Californians, please contact the governor. I don’t know about you, but regardless of the law, I intend to purchase ammunition in the future, and I refuse to be fingerprinted when I do it. I am not a criminal, and I refuse to be treated as one. And if the state declares me to be a criminal, then I refuse to be punished.
Urgent: Two Anti-Gun Bills Head to Governor’s Desk in California
Please Contact the Governor Today!
On Friday, September 11, the California Assembly passed Assembly Bill 962 by a 44-31 vote. AB962 now joins Senate Bill 585 on the desk of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) where they await his consideration.
AB962 requires individuals purchasing ammunition be fingerprinted and registered at the time of sale, mandates that dealers keep these records and make them available for inspection by the California Department of Justice. Ammunition retailers would also have to store ammunition in such a manner that it would be inaccessible to purchasers. Finally, mail order ammunition sales are prohibited under AB962. Over twenty years ago, Congress abolished similar requirements because ammunition sales records were found to be useless for solving crimes. AB962 is a dire threat to our Second Amendment rights in the Golden State.
SB585 would prohibit the sale of firearms and ammunition on the property or inside the buildings that comprise the Cow Palace in Daly City, just outside of San Francisco. Simply put, SB585 is a stepping-stone to banning gun shows on all publicly-owned property in California.
Please contact Governor Schwarzenegger TODAY and respectfully urge him to veto AB962 and SB585. The Governor can be reached by phone at 916-445-2841 or via fax at 916-558-3160. To email Governor Schwarzenegger, please visit http://gov.ca.gov/interact.
Here’s the message I sent to Governor Schwarzenegger:
PLEASE VETO AB962 AND SB585. These two anti-gun bills merely serve to harass and criminalize decent law-abiding citizens, while they would do nothing to impede true criminals. The bills are inappropriate and counter-productive. The practical effect of AB962 would be to drive millions of dollars of business out of state, because legitimate buyers will simply refuse to be treated like criminals. In other words, AB962 will vastly increase the out-of-state supply lines that it claims to eliminate. I know this for a fact because I saw what happened in my home city of Pasadena when it passed a similar law, which it eventually repealed after the practical effect was a loss of business to adjacent jurisdictions. Likewise, SB585, which would outlaw gun shows at the San Francisco Cow Palace, is nothing more than a slap at a legitimate and honorable local institution. The fact is that nobody hates gun crimes more than legitimate gun owners, and these gun owners would be the state’s ally, except that the legislature treats us like bad guys and makes enemies of us. Please stand against this mean-spirited foolishness. Veto AB962 and SB585.
This is another attempt by the socialist republic of California to control its law-abiding gun-owners. I’m glad I left that beautiful state and now live in Nevada, where the second amendment is alive and kicking. I hope this gets vetoed, but really don’t have much hope. It is incredible that under these economic conditions, politicians keep shooting themselves in the foot — no pun intended — by driving legitimate businesses away from the state.
Tammy, if push comes to shove, come on over to Las Vegas: it is not far from LA, you can purchase your ammo here, bring the Palin Democrat along, and go to a real casino! :-)
I just sent my remarks along, too. Arnold said he will veto anything that is unrelated to the budget. Hopefully he will ax these too. Does the Gov. have a pocket veto? Can he just sit on it for ten days and let it die?
No, under the California Constitution there is no pocket veto: if the Governor does not act within 12 days on a bill presented while the Legislature is in session, it becomes law; if he does not act within 30 days on a bill presented after adjournment, it becomes law. I.e., unlike the President, the Governor of California must affirmatively veto a bill to prevent its enactment.
So Arnold has a “pocket approval”, basically. How convenient.
I just have one question – Can they override his veto?
Legally, they can by a 2/3 vote of both chambers. In practice, I don’t think they have the votes to do that.
On the bright side…Obama overdose coming..Letterman and 5 shows on Sunday. How does he do it?
B.H.O. = “Because He’s Omniscient”…(Poke both my eyes out with a sharp pencil but don’t make me watch another interview with this moron)
California is trying its hardest to get me to leave the state.
If this goes through, there are two ways to deal with it. We could buy all ammo out-of-state, but that is at least inconvenient, and the next pressure point will be to ask for some sort of rule or law to require a state I.D. to be shown, and not sell ammo to California residents. There is already all sorts of stupid laws against various things having to do with guns that can’t be shipped to CA. It runs the gammut from magazine loaders, to brass catchers, and a host of other stuff. Imagine, you use a brass catcher so you can catch your brass for reloading…ILLEGAL IN CA.! Leave some missed shell cases behind, and you are subject to a $1000 fine for littering on public land! Of course, the gang bangers just put the gun in a plastic grocery bag or tape a “baggie” over the port when comitting misdameanor homicide (shooting another gangbanger).
The other way to address this is to buy one box of ammo every time you go anywhere that sells ammo. A box at Walmart, a box at Big 5, where ever ammo is sold. Lots of records, lots of books, gobs of fingerprints, so many that nobody will care to look, just because of the shear volume. Plus it’s actually easier to hoarde up ammo that way, because rather than buy 5000 rounds at a gun show, making yourself a “person of interest”, your getting a little here and some more there, easily explained: “I shoot a box or two every week-end on BLM land in Nevada.”
Again the Liberals don’t understand that it is criminals that commit crimes not law abiding citizens. But this goes beyond gun control and into Life control. If you can not protect yourself and are at the mercy of rampant criminal elements, who ya gonna call? Nanny Gov, thats who! Nanny gov will keep you warm and dry. Nanny Gov will prtotect you from those mean ol’ criminals, just sign your individualism away, along with freedom, liberty, personnal thought, privacy, choice, happiness, etc…
Oh and don’t forget to have your personnalized bar code tattoo’d on your back side. And STEP IN LINE! NO TALKING. NO PLAYING. NO THINKING FOR YOURSELF. Yea, Nanny Gov.
If you have dissenting thoughts Nanny Gov will help you at our modern and comfortable intergration and education centers operated by those lovable folks at ACORN. NO INDIVIDUAL EFFORT. NO CONTRARY IDEAS. NO MOTHER OR FATHERS. Nanny Gov, your the best!
Belief in God is proof of ignorance, dont be ignorant! Trust in Nanny Gov! YOU ARE A PART OF THE UNITY. GOD IS A LIE. LIFE WITHOUT NANNY GOV IS NOT LIFE. THERE ARE NO ANSWERS OUTSIDE OF NANNY GOV. NANNY GOV DOES NOT LIE. I love you Nanny Gov.
WE must remain vigiliant to see the layers within their agenda of order, peace, kindness, and understanding through destruction of the old world at the cost of our self and freedoms.
I talked to a friend of mine who is a native Californian, and he said that California had a similar law to this in the ’70′s. You had to put the caliber, no. of rounds or boxes, your DL#, and sign, each time you bought ammo. They repealed it because retailers complained that sales plummeted (because people bought out of state) and the record keeping was too cumbersome. They got part of what they wanted though, many small retailers stopped carrying ammo. Used to be, you could buy ammo at any sporting goods store, and just about every hardware store had it. Stores like Venture, Target, Kmart, Sears, all sold ammo even if they did not sell guns. In the end, this law will not prevent criminals from getting hold of ammo or guns, anymore than our drug laws prevent addicts from having access to drugs, or drug dealers from bringing drugs into the country.