- Joined
- Sep 28, 2011
- Messages
- 15,170
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- Location
- SF Bay Area
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Conservative
Its purpose is to reduce general gun ownership.
More specifically, to reduce gun ownership and access to ammo for legal and lawful gun owners. The impediments are ineffective for criminals. In particular, when speaking of the Real ID requirement, it is not the slightest problem for criminals because they are aware that you can't trace a used bullet back to a point of sale so there is no reason for a criminal to be concerned with showing an ID.
What could be a concern though is the periodic background check to buy ammo. But here again, as guns are freely bought and sold on the black market (a large number being foreign copies without valid serial numbers) the sellers of these same guns are going to also sell the criminal the ammo as needed.
So is just one more fee, one more background check hassle, and another procedure that ONLY impede lawful gun owners.
California has joined the gun loathing lobby, and like NJ and some other states I am sure it will pass a never ending stream of laws that are designed to make it a hassle or entrap people with procedural slip-ups of innocuous transport.
Bottom line: this is not crime control or safety, its harassment that facilitates intentional entrapment under the color of law.
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