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Out: Gun control. In: Bullet control?
“2,800 people in California were killed last year by gunfire,” Skinner said. “It is easier to buy bullets than cough medicine or alcohol. It should not be that easy. We need to have much more scrutiny when it comes to the purchase of guns.”
Monday she unveiled Assembly Bill 48. It would require bullet buyers to show identification. It would also require ammunition dealers to be licensed and report all sales to the department of justice.
Emmeryville police chief Ken James supports the tighter restrictions.
”Right now you can buy bullets in any store and the sale is not recorded”, James said.
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Out: Guns don’t kill people. People do.
In: Guns don’t kill people. Bullets do.
Doughboy on January 8, 2013 at 11:59 AM
didn’t the British try and block powder? I’d consider any limits on casings 0projectiles or powders to be an infringement of the 2nd amendment. it should be met with force.
tom daschle concerned on January 8, 2013 at 12:03 PM
Man! There will have to be enforcement to ban a lot of different things to make this happen, won’t there? We’ll need a whole new federal agency. The value of old lead sinkers just went up. Buy now! AVOID THE RUSH!
a capella on January 8, 2013 at 12:07 PM
Yawn. Classic comedian Pat Paulsen proposed this nearly 45 years ago.
Del Dolemonte on January 8, 2013 at 12:07 PM
Anyone know if this will apply to the Feds and their millions and millions of bullets (hollow point btw) the DHS, IRS, DEA, HHS etc. are purchasing?
Hummmmmmmmmm????
katy on January 8, 2013 at 12:07 PM
I already control my bullets very well.
Molon Labe
trs on January 8, 2013 at 12:09 PM
Done here in MA now.
With my last permit renewal I was given a PIN that I now have to present when buying firearms or ammo. The transaction of what, where, when and qty are entered into some state database at the time of purchase. At least that is the way the police explained it to me. They also assured me that this was not a tracking of my purchases. They then tried to sell me some swampland in Alaska.
Dr. Frank Enstine on January 8, 2013 at 12:09 PM
Have you seen the number of knife deaths? Why, on any given day you can see people freely purchasing knives at Walmart, Ace Hardware, even the grocery store. The GROCERY store! I even saw a guy buying multiple knives which are stored openly in a butcher block…a black-painted butcher block….
*tears up*
When will we do something about this epidemic?
Bishop on January 8, 2013 at 12:09 PM
Don’t give the morons any ideas. See England and Australia were they are restricting or trying to restrict knifes. I think it was England that said last year that nobody needed knifes with points.
Dr. Frank Enstine on January 8, 2013 at 12:12 PM
Because the edge of a razor is apparently harmless.
But hey, here goes the primer and powder market again. Good times are back.
Bishop on January 8, 2013 at 12:15 PM
there was an article in the dailymail yesterday about a knife assault with a deadly lockback. if you didn’t know, locking folding knives are illegal in the UK. the was the article read the assault lock back knife was drawn from an assault sheath and employed in deadly assault.
tom daschle concerned on January 8, 2013 at 12:19 PM
I just heard Rush say there was going to be a pro-gun bunch at the mall in dc before bho’s inaugration! First I have heard of that? That should get bho/bhopress/gun grabbers all bent out of shape?
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letget on January 8, 2013 at 12:21 PM
I love going to the junkyard with a 5 gallon bucket and a screwdriver and popping wheel weights. Free fishing lead, too.
wolly4321 on January 8, 2013 at 12:26 PM
Don’t let these idiots watch Sling Blade; they’ll want to ban sickles and lawn-mower blades……….
SailorMark on January 8, 2013 at 12:27 PM
Pass that dumb assed law and you’ll have bullets sold on every street corner which aren’t recorded.
Bullets are easy to make … I mean … EASY.
HondaV65 on January 8, 2013 at 12:30 PM
A correction just now from Rush on my last post. This is suppose to be a gun appreciaton day. Sorry for the misinformation!
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letget on January 8, 2013 at 12:30 PM
The banning will never work! They know it.
What they have planned next is check points at every public place of business in the country. Think TSA.
Checkpoints! Mark my word. We’ll be able to carry but they will deny every CCW carrier access to anything….
katy on January 8, 2013 at 12:31 PM
A butcher block?!? We must ban butchers immediately.
Fenris on January 8, 2013 at 12:32 PM
Mmmmhmm, I love potted meat and french fried patators.
trs on January 8, 2013 at 12:32 PM
Mmmmhmm, I love potted meat and french fried patators.
trs on January 8, 2013 at 12:32 PM
I aim to keel you with it, mmmmhmmmm..
bernzright777 on January 8, 2013 at 12:34 PM
So you can buy bullets under the age of 18? And ANY cough medicine can be bought by someone under 18? Do they record my purchases of cough meds and booze? Can I buy both apples and oranges?
CW on January 8, 2013 at 12:38 PM
Sheesh.
Arms includes munitions.
The 2nd Amendment doesn’t say “Bear Metal Sticks” but “bear arms” and that includes the munitions.
ProfShadow on January 8, 2013 at 12:38 PM
Fingers.
Fingers are the problem.
If people didn’t have them, it would be very difficult to load and fire a gun or use a knife effectively.
I look for the government to consider removing fingers.
I’m ahead in that game, because I’m giving them one right now.
justltl on January 8, 2013 at 12:38 PM
Yes any attempt to ban or price bullets out of reach would be squashed by this SCOTUS.
CW on January 8, 2013 at 12:40 PM
Will possession of unlicensed/unregistered bullets be a crime? Driving to other states or reservations may be the way to go.
Blake on January 8, 2013 at 12:41 PM
The TSA kept me from boarding a plane while I carried an assault nail clipper.
There is no telling what I may have done if allowed to carry that WMD onboard.
Bishop on January 8, 2013 at 12:41 PM
Silly Rabbit, you obviously are unaware that several states, led by us folks here in New Hampshire, have already banned fishing lead.
Del Dolemonte on January 8, 2013 at 12:47 PM
CA already requires ID for ammo purchases.
Registering sales is another ball of wax entirely, and a pointless one at that. Registration will not stop a single crime. It will only burden law abiding owners.
Further, these incremental attempts at stopping gunownership have been losing in courts of late. Something to look forward to and be thankful for.
chimney sweep on January 8, 2013 at 12:48 PM
Read for the Day, for all the still free people. The rest, burn in Hades, here on Earth.
Schadenfreude on January 8, 2013 at 12:48 PM
Sorry, here’s the link.
Schadenfreude on January 8, 2013 at 12:49 PM
I don’t mind showing my ID, since I would be using a credit card and have to do that anyway.
Although, I bought some evil ammo at walmart last week using my Discover card and the cashier didn’t bother asking to look at my ID. I was more unnerved that someone could have used my stolen credit card.
Fun idea:
What if a store reported EACH AND EVERY BULLET. Imagine selling a box of 50 9mm and sending in 50 forms. One for each round in the box.
kurtzz3 on January 8, 2013 at 12:49 PM
Let’s also note that all the ammunition that HomeSec is buy is driving up the cost of ammunition in certain calibers by making it a bit more scarce…
And it isn’t like you can go to many street corners in certain parts of any city and get illegal drugs. There is a law against in and everything!
ProfShadow on January 8, 2013 at 12:50 PM
Schadenfreude on January 8, 2013 at 12:51 PM
NH,, live lead free or die?
wolly4321 on January 8, 2013 at 12:51 PM
Wait till the left figures out that each and every day we right-wingers pull on our assault pants, button up our assault shirts and stuff our club feet into assault shoes. They’ll probably insist on having cameras in our dressing rooms.
Also, I have just decided that it behooves me to make every ammo purchase with cash.
TexasDan on January 8, 2013 at 12:51 PM
She has not given up her protection, the pig.
Schadenfreude on January 8, 2013 at 12:52 PM
Ken James has also not given up his protection.
Schadenfreude on January 8, 2013 at 12:53 PM
Over-regulation of ammo would just jumpstart a “black market.” Sometimes I think that Leftists might be economic illiterates and not understand human history.
visions on January 8, 2013 at 12:54 PM
As long as it doesn’t require ID to buy cartridges, I don’t really care.
besser tot als rot on January 8, 2013 at 12:57 PM
LOL! Good luck with that. I suggest the idiots proposing this read Heller.
By the way, gun-grabbers! I bet that you would have applauded FDR when he disarmed the Japanese-Americans, along with many thousand German- and Italian-Americans, before he sent them to internment camps.
“But, but, but such could never happen in the United States of America!!!”
It already has, Fascists.
Resist We Much on January 8, 2013 at 1:08 PM
Yeah. Makes one’s ears bleed, doesn’t it?
TexasDan on January 8, 2013 at 1:09 PM
Why are they not buying range ammo for training?
IF that’s their ‘Excuse’?
Galt2009 on January 8, 2013 at 1:10 PM
Sometimes????
Shump on January 8, 2013 at 1:12 PM
Criminals don’t really need much target practice. Accuracy doesn’t help in muggings. Even in the case of murder, the criminal is going to be taking the shot from a few feet away. And killing bystanders (i.e., witnesses) really isn’t considered a downside either.
But DEFENDING yourself is hard. It takes lots and lots of practice. As always, every liberal “solution” does nothing but help predators and harm honest men and women.
logis on January 8, 2013 at 1:12 PM
I imagine that people thought the same way in other places that the government disarmed its people before slaughtering them.
Galt2009 on January 8, 2013 at 1:13 PM
Soon to be posted piece on the disarmament of Japanese-Americans and others during WWII…before their property and liberty were stolen from them by another “Progressive” tyrant in the White House.
BTW, Proggies, do not attempt to play the Sinclair Lewis- “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross”-It Can’t Happen Here card with me. Read the damn book, an AUTHORISED edition. He NEVER wrote it.
Resist We Much on January 8, 2013 at 1:13 PM
Don’t forget that freed slaves were prohibited from owning guns.
Also, Native Americans were disarmed, too. Worked out REAL well for them.
kurtzz3 on January 8, 2013 at 1:17 PM
It is in DC.
Dr. Frank Enstine on January 8, 2013 at 1:19 PM
Think about it.
Schadenfreude on January 8, 2013 at 1:22 PM
1984 and THX1138. The leftist wet dream movies.
Dr. Frank Enstine on January 8, 2013 at 1:24 PM
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