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What will Schwarzenegger's ammo restriction bill do for legal gun owners, legal gun shops, and crime rates?
The Govenator signed a bill that would require dealers to keep sales records for 5 years and would require legal and law abiding gun owners to be fingerprinted to buy ammo.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2...
Will this help reduce crime, deter criminals (past and current felons who cannot legally buy ammo anyway) from buying, or increase public safety? Or will legal ammo sales fall, criminals buy ammo outside of the state or make it them selves and crime continue as is? Your thoughts.
"The laws that forbid the carrying of arms ... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity ... will respect the less important and arbitrary ones ... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants, they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." — Thomas Jefferson
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- LOCOLv 51 decade agoFavorite Answer
Gomanyes, I am a police officer from Massachusetts. It is not a step in the right direction. When a crime happens, we have a data base, okay? So now we have to have a computer go through ballistics of weapons in a actual crime. Now lets introduce a ton of worthless data. Data of all the law abiding citizens. Now instead of a couple days of getting a match. Now we are waiting a month. Oops computer crash (It happens) time to start over. Now a suspect has been on the loose for a month or longer and has committed a crime again. Thanks government for restricting the law abiding people and allowing criminals to get away with more. I swear Democrats are Pro Criminal and anti Citizen. Especially when it cons to defense. I know Arnold is a Republican, but maybe he should stop taking plays from Romneys book. Act like a conservative, Better yet Defend and uphold the Constitution.
Source(s): Saying that law abiding Citizens are more likely to commit a crime because they have a firearm is offensive. People need to stop being morons for a change and try some critical thinking. - Anonymous1 decade ago
It is hard to say, but I think it is a step in the right direction. At the very least, investigators will have access to additional records that may help in solving crimes. And it will also deter people from buying ammo who aren't allowed to have it, if there is a record being kept.
However, state level gun control is usually not very effective, because it's too easy for criminals to get guns/ammo from another state that has weaker laws. That is why this type of thing needs to be done on a federal level. But until the feds get their act together, the states will have to do the best they can.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Ammo will be almost impossible to control. I can't imagine very many useful ways for this extraordinarily overburdening law to affect law enforcement. I believe it is intended to raise the price of ammo, to provide opportunities to catch honest retailers and shooters in technicalities and to simply be a nuisance to law abiding citizens.
It will accomplish about as much for gun crime in California as Utah's alcohol restrictions affect drinking there.
Source(s): I lived in San Diego for six years while serving in the Navy and have since moved back to Utah, my home state. - Anonymous1 decade ago
I would move out of California if I lived there. Criminals will go to other states and buy extra. So you are looking at more problems I think.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
F--- CALIFORNIA
Source(s): hope this helps