LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 962, as amended, De Leon. Ammunition.
Existing law requires the Department of Justice to maintain
records pertaining to firearms transactions.
This bill would require the department to maintain additional
information relating to licensed handgun ammunition vendors, as
specified.
Existing law generally regulates the sale of ammunition.
This bill would establish a program administered by the Department
of Justice for licensing handgun ammunition vendors, as specified.

The bill would establish a database maintained by the department
to serve as a registry of handgun ammunition vendors.

This bill would require that commencing July 1, 2010, unless
specifically excluded, no person shall sell or transfer more than 50
rounds of handgun ammunition in any month unless he or she is
registered as a handgun ammunition vendor, as defined. The bill would
also require employees of those vendors who would handle, sell, or
deliver ammunition in the course and scope of their employment to
obtain a certificate of eligibility, as specified.The bill would
require the Department of Justice to maintain a registry of
registered handgun ammunition vendors, as specified. The bill would
provide that no vendor would be authorized to sell ammunition
pursuant to a handgun ammunition vendor license unless the vendor is
listed on the centralized registry.
The bill would also provide that no
retail seller of ammunition handgun
ammunition vendor, as defined, shall sell, offer for sale, or
display for sale, any handgun ammunition in a manner that allows that
ammunition to be accessible to a purchaser without the assistance of
the retailer vendor or employee
thereof.
Existing law generally regulates what information is required to
be obtained in connection with the transfer of ammunition.
This bill would, subject to exceptions, commencing July
1, 2010 February 1, 2011 , require
certain ammunition vendors handgun ammunition ven
dors to obtain a thumb print and other information
from ammunition purchasers, as specified. A violation of these
provisions would be a misdemeanor.
This bill would provide that a person enjoined from engaging in
activity associated with a criminal street gang, as specified, would
be prohibited from having under his or her possession, custody, or
control, any ammunition. Violation of these provisions would be a
misdemeanor.
The bill would prohibit supplying or delivering, as specified,
handgun ammunition to prohibited persons, as described, by persons or
others who know, or by using reasonable care should know, that the
recipient is a person prohibited from possessing ammunition or a
minor prohibited from possessing ammunition, as specified. Violation
of these provisions is a misdemeanor with specified penalties.
The bill would provide, subject to exceptions, that commencing
July 1, 2010 February 1, 2011 , the
delivery or transfer of ownership of handgun ammunition may only
occur in a face-to-face transaction, with the deliverer or transferor
being provided bona fide evidence of identity of the purchaser or
other transferee. A violation of these provisions would be a
misdemeanor.
By creating new crimes, this bill would impose a state-mandated
local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this
act for a specified reason.