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Old 04-01-2018, 07:23 PM
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So many new laws.

Ammo purchase requires a (clear) background check and Real ID?

You must have a firearm registered in that Caliber to purchase, otherwise you don't get any?

This true?
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Old 04-01-2018, 08:21 PM
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No requirement that you have a registered firearm in that caliber. Not to say that someone at CA Dept of Justice won't come around asking what your up to. No internet sales. This is a really bad time for us 25-20 Winchester shooters. We can't get ammo.
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Old 04-02-2018, 07:06 PM
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Bad Time for us all here. They say: "we can't take your guns but we can take your ammo."
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Old 04-02-2018, 07:17 PM
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Do reloading supplies also have the same requirements as ammo?
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Old 04-02-2018, 07:24 PM
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Nope, reloading is where you want to be at..
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Old 04-02-2018, 07:27 PM
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Someone's voting for that nonsense. That's what you need to be looking at.
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What's up in California? The lunatics are running the asylum. My friends are lucky in that they know someone in Minden, Nevada who will accept shipments for them. When they come to visit, they pick up their boxes with their name on it. What's inside the box? Don't ask, don't tell.
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Jag 312, under the new law that is also a problem. You can legally BUY ammo out of state, but bringing it back INTO the state with you is not legal. The PRC is doing their very best to make it as hard as possible for honest, law abiding citizens to own guns and ammunition. If, however, you are a criminal illegal alien you are protected for pretty much anything you may wish to do. I fully expect that, in the near future, they will be asking the ammo question at the border checkpoints for agricultural items. I have also been informed that they have CA DOJ agents cruising parking lots at the big Nevada gun shows recording license plate numbers. That might be a crock, but then again, maybe not.
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Jag 312, under the new law that is also a problem. You can legally BUY ammo out of state, but bringing it back INTO the state with you is not legal. The PRC is doing their very best to make it as hard as possible for honest, law abiding citizens to own guns and ammunition. If, however, you are a criminal illegal alien you are protected for pretty much anything you may wish to do. I fully expect that, in the near future, they will be asking the ammo question at the border checkpoints for agricultural items. I have also been informed that they have CA DOJ agents cruising parking lots at the big Nevada gun shows recording license plate numbers. That might be a crock, but then again, maybe not.
I'm not bringing ammunition into California. That would be up to my friends. There are a number of back roads into California. You don't always have to drive on Hwy 80, and the CHP can't block every road into California.

As far a California DOJ, they are in the parking lots and inside the shows. Same with ATF. Last year I saw someone that I strongly suspect was from the Reno ATF office who had a table with guns in a locked display case (nothing for sale) that appeared to be doing surveillance on someone at a nearby table.
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Re ID: Yes, as of this time, it must be a Real ID. (I *think* CCW and something else, Passport maybe, might work but missed that part of the conversation at a gun store.)

You have to have a form of ID that proves you're a legal resident. Initially a regular DL was suppose to be fine but it turns out that it's not distinquishable from an AB60 ID and therefore not valid ID for ammo/gun purchases.

The background check, if I understand correctly, goes into effect in 2019 (July?)

Registered gun/caliber match? not at this time. Not sure about the future.
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So, CA has made bringing ammo into the state illegal. I lived in the San Diego area for several years 20+ years ago. The current crop of politicians in California would do a backflip if they knew that I used to buy a considerable amount of ammo and reloading supplies in my home state of Arizona when I visited family, because it was cheaper there. I bought very little gun related stuff in California during the six years I lived there, two guns as I remember. My annoyance started early on when I had to show ID to buy black powder for a muzzleloader deer hunt in Utah. Then I was really annoyed with 10 day waiting on handguns and having to go to an FFL for a private party sale. I can't imagine what folks there go through now. Gun registration, what's that? Luckily, I left before that nonsense started.

Question, can ammo purchased at a large retailer, say Walmart, be tracked to a particular store without a receipt if it's not in a store bag?

No offense intended but honestly, one of the happiest moments of my life was when I crossed eastbound over the Colorado River in my pickup with the last of our household goods in July 1998. I have and may live in other states, but unlike Gen. MacArthur, I will NOT return (to CA).
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Old 05-06-2018, 12:16 PM
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There might be THREE states of California soon...............

there might be a light at the end of the tunnel, after all ?
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All the more reason to buy all the ammo you can afford right now!

I am very lucky in that I am old and already own pretty much all the ammo I will ever need for the rest of my days. The only exception now is ammo I buy from my local shops mainly just to help them stay in business and to experiment with different brands and bullet weights.

If the anti-2A political forces managed to cut me off tomorrow, I'd still be in fine shape for the remainder of my "good years"!
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Unbelievable! If someone would have told me this was going to happen ten years ago, I wouldn't believe them.
All the more reason to support the NRA.
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Nope, reloading is where you want to be at..
The only factory ammo I buy is 22lr.

But tighten the grip on your scivvies it's only a matter of time before reloading components are affected.
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Go to Cabela's in Glendale, Az. on any given Saturday afternoon. You will lose count of the California plates you see in the parking lot. I'm pretty sure they aren't in there buying fish hooks.
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