
So everyone has been asking me "Hey Matt, what are you going to do about this ammo registry thing in California?"
The ammo logs that the State wants us to keep go into effect 2/1/2011 and will be held privately within our company. No information is automatically sent to law enforcement. Law enforcement will have the capability to review these logs however. Back in the 80's, if anyone remembers, we used to have these logs on a Federal level. Since law enforcement never used them to solve anything back then, they discontinued the program. Now we assume much will be the same. Without a central database for law enforcement to check, this system will not be very viable for them to use. Let alone, law enforcement agencies continually cry the blues that they don't have money to do this and that, so I doubt seriously that they would allocate any resources towards something they did not ask for in the beginning. This will merely be a pain in you and my butts, taking the time to fill out the log to buy a box of .22's! I am not condoning their actions by saying this, but Los Angeles has been doing this for some time with no problems to the buyers except more time spent at the checkout counter relating information.
Already in place just so people don't think it will be a new policy-You must be 18 to buy long gun ammo, and 21 to buy hand gun ammo.
So no panic buying! You will get to buy all you want, any time you want with no changes in pricing-we will absorb this labor cost. But PLEASE be patient. It will just take longer to buy ammo come next year. We will all grumble together I am sure, but please do not take it out on the kid at the counter. No one wants this but the gun haters. They know this is one more thing to piss us off like lead free ammo and drive us away from our passions and take up golf or gardening! Don't let them win! We got around their stupid assault weapon stuff, let's prove to them that they can't beat us down. And by golly, next time another anti bill comes up in assembly-let them have it!