Ammunition control
Ammunition control is progressive police state legislation that seeks to track, monitor and control the [private property|ownership]] and use of firearms by law-abiding peaceable citizens by requiring mandatory tracking and monitoring of ammunition sales by both the retailer and the Department of Justice in centralized databases.
Conservative Veterans, Patriots, Gun Enthusiasts and Preppers See Police State Behaviors
Many Conservative veterans, American Oath Keeper Patriots, gun enthusiasts and preppers see the ammunition control and gun control in general as tyrannical police state behaviors.
Ammunition control, at least as it was attempted both in 2010 and again in 2014 by left coast California Democrats, would:
- Require all ammunition to only be sold by FFL (Federal Firearms Licensees) controlled by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
- Ban all loaning or gifting of ammunition to a friend, colleague or family member, even in an emergency such as home security for self-defense during an active shooter home invasion.
- Ban handloading of ammunition by gun enthusiasts and law abiding citizens in general.
- Require an ammunition purchase license with mandatory background check for each purchase creating a large new police state bureaucracy including greatly slow down purchases at retailers, many of whom would simple stop selling ammunition.
- Ban all internet-based sales of ammunition by online retailers such as Cheaper Than Dirt. Interestingly, the Democrats re-added this provision to the 2014 ammunition control bill even though it was declared unconstitutional by the California Supreme Court. This would have cost the taxpayers and the NRA, Gun Owners of California and the Second Amendment Foundation a lot of money re-defending this issue in the court system.
- Despite passing almost unanimously in the left-wing Democrat controlled California State Legislature, it was surprisingly vetoed by elitist liberal gun collector Governor Jerry Brown in 2014. Governor Brown has a long history of voting for and supporting gun control. Governor Brown surprising said on his veto that ammunition control would not stop crime.
has always been absurd left wing "unicorn utopia" pollyanna fantasy of the Anti-self-defense movement, for the simple reason that criminals by their nature never follow laws.
In 2008 there were 18 states seeking to impose some form of ammunition control over lawful owners and users of guns:[1]
- Alabama
- Arizona
- California
- Connecticut
- Hawaii
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Kentucky
- Maryland
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- New Jersey
- New York
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
- Washington.
See Also
- Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives as Gun control agent
- Second Amendment Defenders: National Rifle Association, Gun Owners of America, Second Amendment Foundation
- MSSA v. Holder: Montana and Second Amendment Foundation versus Eric Holder over intrastate ammunition commerce
Bibliography - Further Reading
- Party, Boston T., Boston's Gun Bible. Wyoming American Redoubt Javelin Press, 2008. Contains several chapters related to gun control and ammunition control
- Party, Boston T., Molon Labe!. Wyoming American Redoubt Javelin Press, 30 January 2004, 454 pp (first edition, paperback), ISBN 1-888766-07-7 - Conservative Christian Libertarian dystopian fiction novel entirely based around the issue of States' rights and the Tenth Amendment's connection with the Second Amendment right to armed citizen defense against federal tyranny. Contains several chapters related to the gun control and ammunition control.