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Thousands of lawful CA gun owners are being denied ammunition purchases. Here’s why

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Elderberry:
American Military News by  Ryan Sabalow 12/12/2019

Thousands of lawful CA gun owners are being denied ammunition purchases. Here’s why

Zachary Berg usually buys guns and ammunition with relative ease. After all, he’s a Sutter County sheriff’s deputy and needs them for his job. California’s stringent gun laws usually don’t apply to him.

But Berg couldn’t buy shotgun shells at his local hardware store in Yuba City prior to a duck hunting trip last month. He was rejected under California’s stringent ammunition background check program that took effect July 1, because his personal information didn’t match what state officials had in their database.

Berg was one of tens of thousands of Californians who have been turned away from buying ammunition at firearms and sporting goods stores, even though they appear to be lawfully able to do so, a Sacramento Bee review of state data shows. Between July 1 and November, nearly 1 in every 5 ammunition purchases was rejected by the California Department of Justice, the figures show.

Of the 345,547 ammunition background checks performed, only 101 stopped the buyer because he or she was a “prohibited person” who can’t legally possess ammunition, according to state Department of Justice data.

Yet another 62,000 ammunition purchases were rejected as well. Those people left empty-handed because their personal information hadn’t been entered into the state’s system, or the information on their identification cards didn’t match what officials had entered into the California gun registry database, which retail sellers must review when they do the ammunition background check.

Dan Logan, a 72-year-old retired California Highway Patrol officer and Vietnam veteran, said he attempted to register a shotgun this fall so that he could have his information in the Department of Justice system, yet he was still denied in October when he tried to buy a box of shotgun shells at his local Big 5 sporting goods store in Folsom.

To him, the experience was especially frustrating, given the gun control laws voters passed in 2016 also prohibit him from traveling out of state to stock up on ammunition.

“If I go to Nevada and buy ammunition there, I can go to jail,” he said.

More: https://americanmilitarynews.com/2019/12/thousands-of-lawful-ca-gun-owners-are-being-denied-ammunition-purchases-heres-why/

GtHawk:
This is exactly what the gun nazis in California wanted, if they couldn't confiscate the guns.........yet, they would make it next to impossible for honest people to load them.

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