Schwartzenhitler signed the Ammo Accountability Act

[RugerNiner]

California's Governor Signs Legislation To Help Track Ammunition Sales



Oct 12, 2009

Sacramento, CA – Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law legislation that will help law enforcement officials track down and apprehend armed criminals and other prohibited persons. AB 962 by Assembly Member Kevin DeLeon (D-Los Angeles) had the support of law enforcement officials from across the state and was modeled after successful city ordinances, including the cities of Sacramento and Los Angeles. AB 962 was the Brady Campaign’s top priority bill in this year’s legislature.

The law requires maintenance of purchaser records by handgun ammunition vendors. Local law enforcement can use these records to find illegal guns.

“The purchase records will provide our police officers with yet another tool to track down and apprehend armed and dangerous criminals,” said Paul Helmke, President of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.

The new law also requires the safe storage of handgun ammunition in stores and that all handgun ammunition sales be completed in face-to-face transactions. Sacramento and Los Angeles have had great success over the last few years with similar city ordinances. “Law enforcement officials in both cities have had great success in tracking down violent criminals who purchased ammunition in Sacramento and Los Angeles,” said Ellen Boneparth, President of the California Brady Campaign Chapters. “Our California Brady Chapters were instrumental in urging cities to pass the local ordinances and getting strong support statewide for AB 962.”

A 2006 study by the Rand Corporation on Los Angeles’ city ordinance showed 10,050 rounds of ammunition were purchased by prohibited persons in a period of just two months. The study concluded “…monitoring ammunition transactions may help reduce the supply of ammunition to criminals and the frequency of injuries from felonious gun assaults. Such a record can also provide information for generating leads on illegal firearm possession.”

The results of the Sacramento ammunition ordinance were also striking. From January 16, 2008 to August 31, 2009, 229 prohibited people purchased ammunition of which 173 had previous felony convictions, including gang members. From the matching of ammunition purchase records to the California prohibited persons file, the Sacramento DA was able to charge 181 of the purchasers with felonies. In addition, 160 illegal firearms were seized from the prohibited persons, as well as cash, drugs, and explosive devices.

http://www.bradycampaign.org/media/press/view/1184/

[1861]

Yep , Arnold is about as much republican as Arlin Specter .

[bogey1]

Yep , Arnold is about as much republican as Arlin Specter .

you meant, arlen sphincter, right

[Steve_NEPhila]

First the guns are bad, now the bullets are bad what is next? Wait, I have it...

Physics Are Bad.

Now we have it all figured out. The laws of physical science are bad, they kill people and children. For example, it is not the bullets anymore that are bad, it is the kinetic energy they contain that causes the damage. How can this be addressed you ask??? Simple, we will first register then ban physics from the entire planet. No one wil ever die again from a gunshot wound, car accident, fall, drowning etc...

Who is with me???

[larrymeyer]

Yep , Arnold is about as much republican as Arlin Specter .

Hey look at it this way if he doesn't vote the way his Kennedy wife tells him he sleeps on the couch. And is shut out of Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner not to mention other things he's shut out on

[5711-Marine]

violation of the Interstate Commerce clause?
The Supreme Court's favorite clause to usurp state powers. Wonder how this will end...

Maybe the rising gas prices will keep the criminals from driving across the border???

[••SpraynPray••]

boo, I guess now I have to give up going to the dunes and buying cali gas..

Commies!

[goofin]

Hey look at it this way if he doesn't vote the way his Kennedy wife tells him he sleeps on the couch. And is shut out of Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner not to mention other things he's shut out on

yep, there will always be a kennedy to screw things up

[thelemite]

So does this mean easier access to internet sales of ammo for the remaining 49 states?

[••SpraynPray••]