For Every Action...

It's taken awhile, but California weenies have finally figured out that a firearm without ammunition is nothing but an expensive paperweight.

Yes, fellow Patriots, the commies in charge up there in Sacrascrewyou passed a law a few years back (Prop. 63) that forces citizens desirous of purchasing a box of cartridges  for the Family Firearm to now, as of July 1st, pass a Federal Background Check.  The same one, it turns out, that one must use to purchase a firearm.  

Yes, we have one of those.  The Leftoid gun-grabbers have been calling for "Universal Background Checks" for years and years, and we've had "Universal Background Checks" which the Federal Government calls the "NICS" (National Instant Criminal System") for years and years (since 1998!).

You didn't know that, did you?  What else haven't they told you?

But back to buying ammo and what the State is doing to keep you from it...

Yes, fellow Pilgrims, after decades of trying to fatally erode the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution via thousands of anti-gun laws, they've finally hit upon the one they think will work; make people spend four or five or six times as much to actually USE their guns as it has, and should, and could.  First, they've started doing this by making you pay $1.00 for each and every ammunition purchase you make just to piss you off.  

And then, they'll force you to pay another $19.00 - $25.00 for each transaction for State/Federal background checks.  It could wind up costing more, but no one knows at this point for sure.  

So, at the very least, you'll pay $25.00 for a $5.00 box of .22 rimfire cartridges.  That's a 5x increase since...June 30th.  Exactly as I had warned when this legislation came up for review.  And exactly as it has panned out.

Does anyone think this will prevent someone dead-set on shooting up a school or a mosque or a church to change their mind?  Somehow I doubt it.

But will this prevent someone on a fixed-income from being able to acquire enough ammo to go out and practice?  The ammunition they will need to hunt for table food to get them through the winter?  Will it cause an unnecessary extra delay for both the buyer and the seller?  And will it add untold extra handling and inventorying and carrying costs, which must all be passed along to the citizen?  Of course it will.  How could it not?

This newest impediment by the State to insert itself between a citizen and his Constitutional Rights deserves a response.  A forceful one.  And I have just the idea:

Remember what happened when New York State increased the tobacco tax on cigarettes by 200% a couple of decades ago?  Within minutes a pack of smokes went from $5.00 to $8.50.  And within minutes trailer truckloads of bootleg cigarettes were on their way to NY from Virginia, all ready to circumvent its newest "sin" tax.  And it worked.  NY's tax revenue from their new dumbass tax fell by 87% in the year immediately following imposition of their new tax, costing them $Billions.  And that means profit from smuggling and tax avoidance increased by 87%.  Predictable.  To all but Progressive weenies, that is.

So, using that bit of history as our guideline, I propose we all get together and form the "So-Cal Ammo Buyers Co-Operative."  It would work like this:

1.  Everybody who cares joins the Club and throws a few bucks and their order form into the center of the table. 

2.  One of us Patriots with an empty trunk and a full tank of gas heads off to Las Vegas (where they can still read the small print on the Bill of Rights!) to stock up on ammo.  Fill that trunk, my boy!  And, not only can you buy ammo there in unlimited quantities at lower prices (everything's cheaper there!), they don't charge any bogus extra fees or force duplicative background checks, nor do they hit you with sales taxes!  So, the savings on the ammo and taxes will more than make up for the cost of gas (much cheaper in Vegas due to their much lower gas taxes!).  What's not to like?

Oh yeah, and if you don't care for Vegas, make it AZ or UT or ID or, or, or...

3.  Back home in Taxifornia, the Members of the Co-Op stop by and pick up their orders.  No grief, no hassle, no extra charges.  Just like they enjoy in 49 other states!

It's said you tax something you want less of.  And in the case of "sin" taxes, like tobacco and alcohol, and now ammunition, I guess, that's exactly what they'll get; less tax revenue.  They'll learn one day that simply mandating that people take a certain action the ruling elites find abhorrent, unnecessary, wasteful, deceitful or purely political doesn't mean they'll actually take it.  Some will respond with civil disobedience.  

The quote goes, "For every action there's an equal and opposite reaction."  If they pass asinine laws, the People will exercise their will via civil disobedience.  Been that way, is that way, shall always be that way...