Is A House To House Search For Guns Legal? California Thinks So.

‘House-To-House Confiscation’ Of Guns Will Be On California Ballot

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California is poised to vote in some of the most restrictive gun control laws in the nation when voters go to the polls in November.

The ballot initiative, Proposition 63, would ban magazines larger than 10 rounds, which critics say would lead to house-to-house confiscation by police statewide.

It also would:

• Require ammunition sales be made through licensed vendors.
• Require lost or stolen guns or ammo be reported to police.
• Require buyers pass a background check prior to purchasing ammunition.

The magazine ban is drawing the most opposition.

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“Millions of legal magazines will need to be sold out-of-state, taken out-of-state, or seized by law enforcement,” according to the Coalition for Civil Liberties, which opposes Proposition 63.

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Many legal firearms will only operate with “magazines that can hold more than 10 rounds, making them effectively illegal,” the coalition noted.

“This backdoor gun ban is not just on future sales, but forces you to surrender your existing private property to law enforcement,” it added.

The coalition asserted that Proposition 63, if passed, will lead to “house-to-house confiscation” of guns and magazines.

According to the text of theproposed law, anyone who is caught possessing an illegal magazine can be jailed for up to one year. Current owners of such magazines have three choices, according to the text: 1) remove it from the state, 2) sell it to a licensed dealer, or 3) surrender it to police “for destruction.”

Sheriffs from Butte, Shasta and Modoc counties told KHSL-TV that the proposal would turn law-abiding citizens into criminals.

“Proposition 63 is bad for gun owners and bad for California,” Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko told the outlet.

The California State Sheriffs’ Association opposes Proposition 63.

“This measure would do little to prevent the criminal element from acquiring guns and ammunition via the black market or through theft,” a letter from the association reads. “Instead, it would place additional restrictions on law-abiding citizens who wish to purchase ammunition for sporting or hunting use, retain guns and magazines that are currently legal for them to possess, and pass historical or family heirloom guns down to their next generation.

The measure, the letter reads, “will create a new class of criminals out of those that already comply with common sense practices that now exist.”

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Remember Martin O’Malley’s “military ammunition” statement during the Democratic debate? There was a reason for the exaggerated remark.

Gun control advocates throughout the country are increasingly urging Democratic lawmakers to pass legislation to make it harder for American gun owners to acquire ammunition for their firearms.

In California, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom is currently running a statewide ballot campaign to require background checks for all ammo purchases.

“Why is it that we have background checks for guns but not background checks for ammunition? It makes no sense,” Newsom said recently at a press conference in San Francisco.

“California can set the tone for the rest of the nation with these common-sense public safety provisions,” he said. “We will lead the nation. We’ll be the only state in America that has background checks on point-of-sale purchases of ammunition.”

His proposal would mandate point of sale background checks for all ammunition and also ban magazines with more than a 10-round capacity.

A similar law for ammo background checks is already on the books in New York, but was suspended by the state’s governor in July because of its ineffectiveness.

Newsom says his state will make it work.

“New York tried. California will be the first to do it,” he said. “California will step up and step into this debate in a meaningful way. And I’ll say this to the NRA with all due respect that you can intimidate politicians — we’ve seen them. But you can’t intimidate the public. That’s why we’re bringing this directly to the public.”

Cracking down on ammo sales is a high priority for gun control advocates because ammunition isn’t as ubiquitously protected by the 2nd Amendment as the firearms in which it’s used.

“A focus on ammunition wouldn’t infringe on the rights of law-abiding gun owners. Instead, it would guarantee the protection of those rights — while saving many lives,” a top Brady Campaign official said.

Gun rights groups disagree.

“[Newsom’s] ballot initiative proposal does nothing but prohibit access to the most effective methods for self-defense, with no measurable positive effect on stopping crime or improving public safety,” National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action spokeswoman Amy Hunter said. “They can’t repeal the Second Amendment, so they’re trying to chip away our rights until there is nothing left.”

Government Agencies Not Only Purchase Ammo But Now Bombs

MYSTERY: ATF MAKING ITS VERY OWN BOMBS

Bulk quantities of plastic explosives, blasting gear being purchased

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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, or ATF, is planning to take possession of a 180-pound shipment of plastic explosives accompanied by blasting wire measuring hundreds of thousands of feet.

It won’t take place through an enforcement seizure, however, but via bulk direct purchase for its own use.

Some of ATF’s areas of responsibility include monitoring the explosives industry, providing state and local prosecutorial-staff explosives training and investigating the illegal use and possession of explosives.

Specific bureau plans for the materials, however, remain undetermined. Calls to ATF’s Public and Government Affairs Unit seeking explanation were met with a busy signal.

Coinciding with its acquisition of explosives is a major ATF investigation into the reported theft of high explosives from a Montana warehouse.

The bureau is offering a $5,000 reward for information on 285 pounds of missing dynamite, ammonium nitrate fuel oil and explosive boosters reported stolen from an Ajax Contracting Inc. storage facility, ATF’s Denver office said this week.

The alleged theft took place sometime between March 15 and April 1. ATF, within days in an unrelated action, issued a bid request in Solicitation no. DJA-14-ANCE-PR-0360, which seeks 231,000 feet of detonating cords, 15 dozen pounds of C1 and C2 explosives and 2,000 fuse caps.

Other recent federal entities seeking weapons-related procurements include the U.S. Capitol Police, or USCP, whose ammunition cache is getting a boost of 600,000 rounds of .40 Smith & Wesson hollow-point bullets.

The acquisition presumably will help USCP “to protect the Congress, its legislative processes, members, employees, visitors, and facilities from crime, disruption, or terrorism.”

Major federal, non-military ammo purchases this year have not yet rivaled what was witnessed in 2013.

The FBI planned to spend up to $100 million on bullets in a single solicitation, while the Department of Homeland Security separately sought as many as a quarter-billion rounds, as WND reported one year ago.

Questions have been raised about whether the federal government is or was stockpiling ammunition or was simply making increasingly larger and cost-effective purchases.

A U.S. Government Accountability Office report on DHS-specific ammo acquisitions rejected the notion that stockpiling is taking place.

It acknowledged that a significant shift in government bullet-buying strategies indeed occurred over the past decade-plus.

GAO, however, offered an argument that DHS – comparable to trends in other federal law enforcement entities – almost since its inception has pursued bulk purchases as a money-saving policy.

Obama Administration Trying To Kill Second Amendment By Eliminating Ammunition

Feds Declare War On Affordable and Plentiful Imported Ammunition

Back door attack by BATFE on Second Amendment

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
April 9, 2014

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The feds recently used an obscure “vaporware” Polish firearm as an excuse to outlaw the importation of cheap and plentiful Russian ammo into the United States.

The BATFE has determined the 7N6 cartridge is armor piercing and therefore illegal under the Gun Control Act (GCA) of 1968 as amended in 1986.

As noted by The Bangswitch blog on Tuesday, the Russian ammo was not an issue with the federal government until the suspicious introduction of a 5.45×39 handgun on the U.S. market.

“Until one did appear, 7N6 surplus could flow freely from Russia, Ukraine and other sources. However, it would only be a matter of time before someone got the bright idea to produce a 5.45×39 pistol domestically or someone applied for a Form 6 to import one,” the blog reports.

The BATFE issued a Special Advisory memo on April 7 claiming the ammo “could be used in a commercially available handgun, the Fabryka Bronie Radom, Model Onyks 89S, 5.45×39 caliber semi-automatic pistol, which was approved for importation into the United States in November 2011.”

The federal agency’s “determination applies only to the Russian-made 7N6 ammunition analyzed, not to all 5.45×39 ammunition. Ammunition of that caliber using projectiles without a steel core would have to be independently examined to determine their importability,” the advisory states.

“This seems a bit fishy to me since it rarely takes the BATFE almost 2 years to ban something once they have cause,” notes the military arms channel blog. “It’s also worth mentioning that several companies such as Robinson Armament and JBI Armory have produced 5.45×39 handguns domestically for several years and we didn’t hear so much as a peep out of the BATFE until 2014.”

The blog notes a Google search of the firearm produces no results with the exception of those mentioned in articles and posts noting the government action. “It’s so obscure in fact that only 200 were produced in Poland and to my knowledge none were ever imported nor sold on the U.S. market as semi-automatic pistols.”

Gun Owners of America, in a post in Ammoland, characterizes the BATFE ruling as a “strained and perverted reading” of what constitutes armor piercing ammunition. The ruling constitutes government fiat without any statutory authority whatsoever, according to the Second Amendment advocacy group.

The sneaky back door ruling is designed to shut down a much needed source of affordable and readily available ammunition. Moreover, the move appears to have an underlying political dimension due to the fact the ammo is imported from Russia, once again an officially denoted enemy following developments in Ukraine.

Unable to ram through draconian gun laws in Congress, the Obama administration and assorted federal government agencies are working behind the scenes to dry up and shut down the availability of ammunition.

If ammunition becomes unavailable and unaffordable, this will, in effect, render the Second Amendment a dead letter.

Here We Go Again! Post Office Sets Up To Purchase Ammo!

U.S. Postal Service Announces Giant Ammo Purchase

Post Office joins other federal agencies stockpiling over two billion rounds of ammo

Kit Daniels
Infowars.com
February 5, 2014

The U.S. Postal Service is currently seeking companies that can provide “assorted small arms ammunition” in the near future.

The U.S. Postal Service joins the long list of non-military federal agencies purchasing large amounts of ammunition.

On Jan. 31, the USPS Supplies and Services Purchasing Office posted a notice on theFederal Business Opportunities websiteasking contractors to register with USPS as potential ammunition suppliers for a variety of cartridges.

“The United States Postal Service intends to solicit proposals for assorted small arms ammunition,” the notice reads, which also mentioned a deadline of Feb. 10.

The Post Office published the notice just two days after Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) announced his proposal to remove a federal gun ban that prevents lawful concealed carry holders from carrying handguns inside post offices across the country.

Ironically the Postal Service isn’t the first non-law enforcement agency seeking firearms and ammunition.

Since 2001, the U.S. Dept. of Education has been building a massive arsenal through purchases orchestrated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

The Education Dept. has spent over $80,000 so far on Glock pistols and over $17,000 on Remington shotguns.

Back in July, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration also purchased 72,000 rounds of .40 Smith & Wesson, following a 2012 purchase for 46,000 rounds of .40 S&W jacketed hollow point by the National Weather Service.

NOAA spokesperson Scott Smullen responded to concerns over the weather service purchase by stating that it was meant for the NOAA Fisheries Office of Law Enforcement for its bi-annual “target qualifications and training.”

That seems excessive considering that JHP ammunition is typically several times more expensive than practice rounds, which can usually be found in equivalent power loadings and thus offer similar recoil characteristics as duty rounds.

Including mass purchases by the Dept. of Homeland Security, non-military federal agencies combined have purchased an estimated amount of over two billion rounds of ammunition in the past two years.

Additionally, the U.S. Army bought almost 600,000 Soviet AK-47 magazines last fall, enough to hold nearly 18,000,000 rounds of 7.62x39mm ammo which is not standard-issue for either the U.S. military or even NATO.

It would take a Lockheed Martin C-5 Galaxy, one of the largest cargo aircraft in the world, two trips to haul that many magazines.

A month prior, the army purchased nearly 3,000,000 rounds of 7.62x39mm ammo, a huge amount but still only 1/6th of what the magazines purchased can hold in total.

The Feds have also spent millions on riot control measures in addition to the ammo acquisitions.

Earlier this month, Homeland Security spent over $58 million on hiring security details for just two Social Security offices in Maryland.

DHS also spent $80 million on armed guards to protect government buildings in New York and sought even more guards for federal facilities in Wisconsin and Minnesota.

While the government gears up for civil unrest and stockpiles ammo without limit, private gun owners on the other hand are finding ammunition shelves empty at gun stores across America,including shortages of once-common cartridges such as .22 Long Rifle.

UPDATE: Since the publication of this article, the USPS has amended its pre-solicitation, claiming that the ammunition is a "standard purchase" for the Postal Police. This does not explain, however, why the Postal Police was not listed in the original notice if this is standard. As the federal government grows larger, more and more federal agencies such as the Dept. of Education and NOAA are forming and arming their own "law enforcement divisions" with hundreds of thousands spent on full-blown arsenals. Even the EPA has its own SWAT teams conducting raids on peaceful Americans. Expect to see more large-scale firearm and ammunition purchases by these bureaucracies as they become even more militarized.

First Ammo, Now Bullet Proof Guard Shacks

First the Department of Homeland Security buys massive amounts of ammunition and now they are purchasing "bullet proof guard shacks.  What is up?  This story keeps growing day by day while 99% of the people in this country are asleep at the switch because NBC, CBS and ABC are not covering it. "If it is not on the three major channels, it must not be true" seems to be their mantra.  

Whatever the reason for the buildup, we seem to be seeing it throughout the government. Yesterday, we picked up on the USDA's Department of Forestry purchasing the same bullets. What other departments are buying weapons and ammo? What is the reason? 

We checked both Google and Bing and do not find any sites that jumped out at us saying the government is buying additional weapons, only ammo. Maybe, the sellers are keeping it under raps or were told to by the government not to talk about it but it does not seem to be out there. This is opposite of the DHS, USDA ammo purchases and now the guard shacks.  Why?

In fact, we were surprised to not find these purchases. Does anyone find information that contradicts the lack of info on gun purchases?  If so, we would like to see it and we will publish it right here.

So be vigilant, we need to find out what is going on!

Conservative Tom

After Huge Ammo Buy, DHS Purchases Bullet Resistant Booths

Federal agency preparing to unveil more checkpoints

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Thursday, April 5, 2012

The Department of Homeland Security recently stoked concern by contracting a company to provide them with 450 million rounds of hollow point bullets. Now the federal agency is also purchasing bullet-proof checkpoint booths that include ‘stop and go’ lights.

A press release from Shelters Direct brags about how they are providing the DHS with bullet resistant guard booths. Images of the booth from the company’s website suggest the guard shacks will be used to control checkpoints.

“This guard building features a standing seam hip roof, a thru-wall HVAC unit, (2) UL 752 BR Level 3 sliding doors, UL 752 Bullet Resistant Level 3 glass and a Low]E coating. Other noticeable highlights of this prefabricated steel building include metal halide security lighting, decorative window grille frames, and a “Stop & Go” light with controls,” states the press release.

The purpose behind the bullet proof booths is unknown, but the DHS has publicly announced that it plans to increase the number of unannounced checkpoints manned by TSA VIPR teams and other federal agents beyond the 9300 that were set up last year alone.

The DHS’ Federal Protective Service stoked controversy in January when it set up a checkpoint and posted agents armed with semiautomatic guns outside a Social Security office in Florida.

The armed agents checked identifications of locals as part of Operation Shield, an unannounced drill centered around “detecting the presence of unauthorized persons and potentially disruptive or dangerous activities.”

Last week, defense contractor ATK announced that it had been awarded an “Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) agreement for .40 caliber hollow point ammunition” by the DHS.

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The contract stipulated that ATK would provide Homeland Security with 450 million rounds of bullets over a five year period. The federal agency also purchased 200 million rounds of bullets back in 2009 and has an open bid for up to 175 million rounds of .233 caliber ammo.

As the American Dream blog pointed out, “The Department of Homeland Security is only supposed to be shooting at people very rarely. It simply does not make sense that they would need so much ammunition.”

With guns and ammo flying off the shelves at record levels due to fears that a second term in office for Obama could lead to a fresh assault on second amendment rights, the DHS may be attempting to head off any potential ammo shortage.

The feds are also seeking to arm hundreds of newly hired security guards tasked with protecting government buildings.

Some fear that the DHS is preparing for the threat of civil disorder or a crisis in Mexico that will lead to a mass migration of people across the southern border.

In December, DHS chief Janet Napolitano directed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to prepare for a mass influx of immigrants into the United States, calling for the plan to deal with the “shelter” and “processing” of large numbers of people.

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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show and Infowars Nightly News.