A California state Senator wants to require a permit to buy ammunition. His reasoning?:
“If you get out of Men’s Central Jail, or let’s say Pelican Bay or San Quentin prison, you can walk into any gun store in California and you can load up a U-Haul truck, fill it up with ammunition, you can drive to South Central Los Angeles… and sell all the ammunition you want on the black market.”
1) Buy legal products at retail and price them at a huge mark-up.
2) ???
3) Huge black market profits!
By the way, since a “black market” involves “trading goods or services illegally” and bullets aren’t illegal to buy, sell, or own, is “black market” some kind of racist dog-whistle code-word here?
If it’s that easy to buy a U-Haul truck full of ammunition, there would be no black market for it and South Central Los Angeles would already be full of ammunition, which it is.
Idiot.
I get tired of all the politicians that feel you need more background checks, permits and regulations to exercise your 2nd Amendment rights but ask someone to prove they say who they are to vote and they act like you are Hitler reincarnated.
I don’t think this Senator has tried to buy ammunition lately…the DHS has it all.
Jails must pay well if you can afford to rent a U-Haul and fill it with ammo purchased at retail after being incarcerated.
You know people should never go into a battle of wits unarmed.
In Proverbs it says; 28 Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
Apparently this is something that progressives (ie Libs, Demoncrats) don’t understand……like liberty, freedom and democracy.
Um, if you are a felon it is a Federal felony to possess ammunition. 18 United States Code 922 (g). IDK about the Men’s Central Jail but if you’re coming out of Pelican Bay or San Quentin you are most certainly a felon.
Yup, the term black market + South Central = Racist dog whistle code word. Also buying legal products at retail + selling them at a huge mark-up = Capitalism, a practice that is outlawed and forbidden in the Peoples Democratic Republic of California.
What about underpants? We should have a registry for those too so that the gnomes can’t support their evil lifestyle.
Evidently, since I left California three-plus years ago, the state has passed a law permitting only the brain-damaged to be elected public officials.
His reasoning is perfectly logical. He wants to create a black market for ammo so that convicts can get back up on their feet after release. After all, black markets only exist because government creates them. Like say when only certain people are permitted to buy something, those people will sell those items to others who aren’t permitted at a higher price.
Has this moron actually tried to by ammo lately? You couldn’t fill a U-Haul with all the ammo in all the Wal-Marts in California.
Even if you buy all this ammo what are you going to do with it, throw it at people? You still have to have a gun and the people who this is supposedly aimed at can’t have a gun legally nor buy one so am I missing something here? Does this law also cover making it illegal to buy replace blades for box cutters?
How stupid are the sheep in commiefornistan? Really, look at all of their elected representatives. Is there a brain cell between them. It should be a requirement that you have to have an I.Q. higher than single digits to hold public office. I would noramlly not feel a bit sorry for the morons in commiefornistan, but their disease spreads so easily. I am against all government intervention, but these sheep need to be institutionalized. They really make the case for abortion. Guess we know where all the victims of severe brain injuries go.
Black market? Racist
I want to know where this store is located that has enough ammo in stock to fill up a U-haul. I’d be fricking ecstatic if I could find 100-200 rounds for less than 3x or 4x the 2011 price so I could go shooting this weekend.
This jackass ought to try actually buying some ammo before he talks about how easy it is for convicted criminals to just get a U-haul full of it.
When we think of California politicians, they usually think of Nancy Pelosi.
There are a few smart Californians: the ones who elected Darrell Issa, for example.