California Clamps Down On Ammo Sales, Requires All Transactions To Be Face To Face

No mail order ammo sales, and stores can’t even display ammo out where customers can get at it without assistance from a clerk. What’s more, you’ll have to give up your thumb print to buy the ammo.

The bill would provide that no handgun ammunition vendor, as defined, shall sell, offer for sale, or display for sale, any handgun ammunition in a manner that allows that ammunition to be accessible to a purchaser without the assistance of the vendor or employee thereof.
Existing law generally regulates what information is required to be obtained in connection with the transfer of ammunition.
This bill would, subject to exceptions, commencing February 1, 2011, require handgun ammunition vendors to obtain a thumbprint and other information from ammunition purchasers, as specified. A violation of these provisions would be a misdemeanor.
This bill would provide that a person enjoined from engaging in activity associated with a criminal street gang, as specified, would be prohibited from having under his or her possession, custody, or control, any ammunition. Violation of these provisions would be a misdemeanor.
The bill would prohibit supplying or delivering, as specified, handgun ammunition to prohibited persons, as described, by persons or others who know, or by using reasonable care should know, that the recipient is a person prohibited from possessing ammunition or a minor prohibited from possessing ammunition, as specified. Violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor with specified penalties.
The bill would provide, subject to exceptions, that commencing February 1, 2011, the delivery or transfer of ownership of handgun ammunition may only occur in a face-to-face transaction, with the deliverer or transferor being provided bona fide evidence of identity of the purchaser or other transferee. A violation of these provisions would be a misdemeanor.

It’s almost like the government doesn’t want you to be able to buy ammo or something. And that’s not conspiracy theory.
I think the gun control movement learned long ago that they weren’t ever going to be able to just ban all the guns. So instead they’re just going to make it so difficult to buy, possess, transport and use guns and ammo that most Americans won’t even bother.
Then maybe once the nation’s proud tradition of bearing arms is eroded enough then they’ll have the political support for bans.
By the way, Arnold Schwarzenegger refused to veto this bill allowing it to become law. Sounds like another Republican that has got to go.