The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors advanced an ordinance today to enhance regulations for gun and ammunition dealers in unincorporated areas of the county.
Janice Hahn’s Baby
LA County Board Supervisor Janice Hahn pushed for the new policy.
“We need to prevent guns from falling into the wrong hands and part of that effort is ensuring gun and ammunition dealers are acting responsibly,” said Hahn.
Next try regulating the actual criminals who commit the violence.
— Julie Hamill (@hamill_law) October 24, 2023
“These are commonsense regulations that will make sure gun dealers have basic security measures in place, maintain inventory, and keep records of who they sell guns and ammunition to,” she added.
The new ordinance will impact 18 gun dealers and two exclusive ammunition dealers in unincorporated LA County.
The Los Angeles County Treasurer and Tax Collector will enforce these rules.
Key provisions Include
- Ammunition dealers must obtain a business license and meet requirements similar to gun dealers. Previously, exclusive ammunition dealers didn’t need a specific license.
- Stores selling guns and ammunition can’t allow minors unless an adult accompanies them. Mixed-use stores must offer sight separation.
- Dealers should maintain annual sales reports, keep purchaser fingerprints, update a weekly inventory, install security cameras, and display signs about gun access risks.
- The Treasurer and Tax Collector will publicly post names of suspended and revoked licensees.
- The annual license fee for initial applications and renewals will increase.
The ordinance awaits a second hearing on November 7th. If approved again, it will become effective 30 days afterward.
Prior Regulations
This regulation is the third in a series of four proposed by Supervisor Hahn. Previous ordinances banned .50 caliber firearms sales and prohibited firearms on county property.
Another in development will introduce a 1,000-foot buffer between gun shops and “child safety zones.”
Furthermore, LA County is advocating for greater awareness and utilization of gun violence restraining orders (GVROs) aka “red flag” laws.
GVROs are gun confiscation orders that target those accused — not convicted — of being a threat to public safety.
SAF Responds
“Politicians like Janice Hahn is the reason the Second Amendment is so important. She has done everything in her power to shred our Bill of Rights,” said Alan Gottlieb, the founder of the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF), in an email to GunsAmerica.
“Our founding fathers warned us about those in government who abuse their power and made sure that we had courts to protect our freedom,” he continued. “The Second Amendment Foundation will make sure that she will be a defendant in the court room!”
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Here we have a legislator completely out of touch with the will of the people as crime moves into more middle-class neighborhoods. These inane laws only affect the law abiding Citizen.
The multi-generation Hahn Crime Family remains one of the strongest power brokers in the political machine region of Los Angeles. Years ago, the city of L.A. drove nearly every firearms dealer out of business with a deliberate harassment campaign run by an SS-like division of the L.A. Police Department. This included the famous B & B Guns store that loaned LAPD officers, in the heat of the North Hollywood bank robbery shoot out, several AR15 type rifles which saved the day. With the exception of a couple of big sporting goods chain stores, all other shops in the city limits were eliminated. Now the County is doing its best to crush those who were in other incorporated cities, untouchable by Los Angeles, but still within the County. Hard to believe that this was once a decent place to grow up and to live, but now L.A. is a hell-hole. Even Hollywood figures are moving to states like Tennessee. Fascism may be fashionable to rich mob family members like Janice Hahn, who lord over the plebian subjects like a feudal baroness, but it’s not a place for those who want to live free. Let’s remember that L.A. was among the first major cities to bring back the plague and other medieval diseases and make them mainstream again.
Utterly bizarre, as this new ordinance is almost entirely duplicative of laws just signed by Governor Noisome that become effective January 1. The finger print requirement is silly, since we who live here have to pass an instant background check with ID to buy ammo as it is, with reports to the Department of Justice of every purchase, including number of rounds, manufacturer, caliber, fps cartridge type and intended use. Then again, this Board is as anti-gun as they come and they will continue to pass all this crap as long as they can get away with it.
forgot, must goosestep and raise arm in respect for any of her many posters around the county. got a great commie smirk going there