silverlance
Member
Please cut and paste the following text (I wrote it, or write your own) in an email to our legislators here in CA who are considering passing a bill that would require all ammo sellers to personally identify and record information about purchasers face to face, essentially killing internet/mail ammo sales for californians!
To find contact information or help identifying your legislators please use the "Write Your Representative" feature found at www.NRAILA.org.
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Please vote NO on AB362.
AB362, sponsored by Assembly Member Kevin de Leon (D-45), would require identification be presented for all mail order and face-to-face ammunition sales. Sellers of ammunition would be forced to keep detailed and accurate sales records. No retail seller of ammunition would be able to sell, offer for sale, or display for sale any ammunition in a manner that allows ammunition to be accessible to a purchaser without the assistance of the retailer or authorized employee.
As an avid shooting sportsman and collector of military history, I am deeply worried by this upcoming bill. Many calibers for historic military rifles are obsolete and can no longer be acquired easily. Thus, I order ammunition through the mail from well-respected import houses in other states. Requiring these import houses to keep detailed and accurate sales records would essentially mean an end to all mail order sales of ammunition to Californians as no seller will be willing to expend the costs necessary to emplace and run such a record-keeping process. This would be disastrous to the shooting sports in California.
The Federal law requiring ammunition purchasers to present I.D. was repealed by the Firearms Owners Protection Act of 1986, because it was found to be ineffective in reducing crime. Likewise, AB362 if passed will also be ineffective at deterring crime, since criminals can easily bypass such a law by having a person purchase for them or by purchasing ammunition out of state. The only people it will hurt will be law abiding citizens for whom the shooting sports is a cherished hobby, and who cannot afford to pay inflated prices for ammunition.
I understand that you may not be a shooting sportsman as I am, or that you may not value the sport. But I and many many others do. Many of us do not make enough money, especially with the high cost of southern california living, to pay for the greatly increased costs such a bill would cost. T his bill would discriminate against these law abiding citizens by essentially making the shooting sports unaffordable to them, placing a constitutional right out of their reach.
Again, PLEASE VOTE -NO- ON AB362.
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To find contact information or help identifying your legislators please use the "Write Your Representative" feature found at www.NRAILA.org.
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Please vote NO on AB362.
AB362, sponsored by Assembly Member Kevin de Leon (D-45), would require identification be presented for all mail order and face-to-face ammunition sales. Sellers of ammunition would be forced to keep detailed and accurate sales records. No retail seller of ammunition would be able to sell, offer for sale, or display for sale any ammunition in a manner that allows ammunition to be accessible to a purchaser without the assistance of the retailer or authorized employee.
As an avid shooting sportsman and collector of military history, I am deeply worried by this upcoming bill. Many calibers for historic military rifles are obsolete and can no longer be acquired easily. Thus, I order ammunition through the mail from well-respected import houses in other states. Requiring these import houses to keep detailed and accurate sales records would essentially mean an end to all mail order sales of ammunition to Californians as no seller will be willing to expend the costs necessary to emplace and run such a record-keeping process. This would be disastrous to the shooting sports in California.
The Federal law requiring ammunition purchasers to present I.D. was repealed by the Firearms Owners Protection Act of 1986, because it was found to be ineffective in reducing crime. Likewise, AB362 if passed will also be ineffective at deterring crime, since criminals can easily bypass such a law by having a person purchase for them or by purchasing ammunition out of state. The only people it will hurt will be law abiding citizens for whom the shooting sports is a cherished hobby, and who cannot afford to pay inflated prices for ammunition.
I understand that you may not be a shooting sportsman as I am, or that you may not value the sport. But I and many many others do. Many of us do not make enough money, especially with the high cost of southern california living, to pay for the greatly increased costs such a bill would cost. T his bill would discriminate against these law abiding citizens by essentially making the shooting sports unaffordable to them, placing a constitutional right out of their reach.
Again, PLEASE VOTE -NO- ON AB362.
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