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REPEAL AB962 AND SUPPORT AB1663 AB 962 Legislative Info AB 1663 Legislative Info  (Feel free to post this banner on YOUR website and link to this petition.) |
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NOTE: Originally, NRA and Assemblyman Hagman planned to amend AB 373 as the vehicle for this legislation. However, due to details of the legislative process, the decision was made to introduce AB 1663, a new bill. Please continue to send in old petitions if you have them as all petitions submitted under the old bill number will still be valid after this technical change.
This action was an attack on common sense and an insult to law-abiding firearms owners throughout the State. Furthermore, AB962, taking effect on February 1, 2011, mandates individuals purchasing ammunition to be fingerprinted and registered at the time of sale and outlaws mail-order ammunition purchases. AB962 also requires dealers to maintain these records for at least five years and make them available for inspection by the California Department of Justice. As an additional burden, ammunition retailers are also required to store ammunition away from purchasers.
This scheme to register firearms owners, as if they were common criminals, must not be allowed to be implemented! Therefore, I respectfully urge the passage of AB1663, by Assemblyman Curt Hagman, that would repeal AB962.
If passed, Mr. Hagman's AB1663 would return a level of sanity to the issue of obtaining firearms ammunition by law-abiding citizens. Since it is well-known that most criminals don't purchase their firearms and ammunition from lawful sources, this legislation would allow our already over-burdened law enforcement agencies to focus on catching criminals instead of turning them into paper-chasing clerks attempting to implement the ill-advised scheme that is AB962.
It is for these reasons, and many more, that I must respectfully, but
strongly, urge legislative support for a repeal of AB962 and the
passage of AB1663.
