California Judge Blocks Law Restricting Gun Ammo Sales

California Judge Blocks Law Restricting Gun Ammo Sales

Thursday, January 20th, 2011

A California  judge has blocked a pending state law that would have required Californians to provide a thumbprint , photo identification when buying handgun ammunition, reports the San Diego Union-Tribune. Judge Jeffrey Hamilton in Fresnotruled that the law scheduled to go into effect Feb. 1 was “unconstitutionally vague.” Gun-rights groups had argued that some types 0f ammunition can be used in both handguns , rifles, making enforcement , compliance a challenge.

State Sen. Kevin de Leon, a Los Angeles Democrat , auth0r0f the law, said, “This Republican judge decided his personal ideology was more important than the safety 0f kids , police officers.” Using the judge’s reasoning, de Leon continued, a separate law banning the sale 0f “cop-killer” bullets that can penetrate body arm0rshould also be tossed. At issue is language in the law that bars sales 0f ammunition “principally f0ruse” in handguns without a thumbprint , ID. The law’s objective, de Leon said, was to aid investigations , potentially prevent crime by making it easier f0rpolice to track criminals already barred from owning handguns who buy ammunition. The law would require Californians buying handgun ammunition over the Internet 0rby mail order to have it shipped to a licensed vendor. There, buyers would still have to provide the thumbprint, ID , other information.

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