Long Beach Ammo Ordinance Defeated
It’s inconceivable to me that my home state is recognized as the absolute WORST state in the union for legitimate gun owners. It’s even less conceivable that the town where I was born and grew up would attempt to impose draconian measures that - as everyone on the constitutional side of the issue knows - will do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to reduce violent crimes where firearms are used.
As a native son, I am pleased to report that pressure on the Long Beach, California, City Council, resulted in their dropping an illegal and really stupid ammunition registration ordinance.
From the NRA-ILA:
Due to overwhelming opposition from the pro-gun community, the Long Beach City Council decided not to draft an ordinance that would have required ammunition retailers in Long Beach to register ammunition purchasers.
Congress has tried ammunition registration in the past, only to discover that it was not only ineffective for law enforcement, but also completely unmanageable due to the sheer volume of transactions. Ammunition registration creates huge record keeping requirements and provides no useful benefits for law enforcement; which is why it was repealed at the federal level by the Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986.
Thank you to all of the NRA members who answered the call in opposition to this attack on our Right to Keep and Bear Arms. Without you, this victory would not have been possible.
While this is certainly a notable win, anti-gun forces are sure to try once again. Please continue checking your email and www.NRAILA.org for updates on this issue.
5 Responses to “Long Beach Ammo Ordinance Defeated”
DirtCrashr on 27 Mar 2009 at 1001 #
Yay! Thankfully the NRA is pretty active in California - it’s just that nobody hears about it from one end to the other, or outside the state even.
I went to the Long Beach GP back in 1977. Andretti won but the GP bikes demo-racing on Saturday were even more impressive. One of my UC Santa Cruz buddies was from there, his dad was a car-dealer. It was easy to get into the pits and walk around the bikes, and I saw Brock Yates from Car and Driver. It was a very hot day. Jordy Scheckjter’s weird double front-wheel Ty
DirtCrashr on 27 Mar 2009 at 1013 #
…Uh Tyrrell-Ford was what I was going to say. I didn’t think it was going to work very well on the Monaco-style course.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrrell_P34
But the bikes, even if just a demo race, were really impressive…
Minstrel on 27 Mar 2009 at 1129 #
Last time I was at the Long Beach GP was back in ‘96. We were there for the main event and didn’t see the bikes. However, in that same time frame, I was integrating a system for a customer in Daytona Beach and went out to the raceway one evening to watch all the ninja bikes do their thing.
Thanks for the link to the Tyrrell wiki - interesting.
DirtCrashr on 28 Mar 2009 at 1637 #
‘77 was washing pots at SAGA Foods at UC Santa Cruz making my way through college, but my supervisor was a young car-guy who had space in his van for the drive down.
The ninja bikes nowdays are pretty cool, but IMO the awesomest 500’s were the stinkwheels - the GP two-strokes just made so much power so fast, and weighed less - they were insane scary-rides. Nowdays they have to go up to +1000cc’s in a four-stroke to equal that, and/but they’re still carrying more weight.
Minstrel on 29 Mar 2009 at 1010 #
Fierce machinery - nothing like the blur of high-speed power streaking past the grandstand. You can’t turn your head fast enough to follow them. And then there’s the sounds . . .