San Francisco - "military style ammo" ban

[Subdeacon Joe]

http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/2013/03/san-francisco-ban-military-style-ammo-expected-pass

 

Possession of certain extra-lethal bullets would be banned in San
Francisco under a proposal expected to pass the Board of Supervisors
today, even as a legal challenge to a prior ammo-sales ban proceeds.

Hollow-point bullets that expand into jagged metallic petals on
impact, as well as bullets intended solely for “law enforcement or
military agencies,” would be banned locally under legislation introduced
by Mayor Ed Lee and Supervisor Malia Cohen in the wake of the December
massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newton, Conn.

Exactly what rounds would be subject to the ban would be up to the
Police Department, which would create a list of banned ammo if the law
passes.

California state law already bans the sale, use and possession of
“unreasonably dangerous” ammunition, including rounds designed to pierce
body armor. And a 2007 city law bans sales of all hollow-point
ammunition.

Violators would face either a misdemeanor or an infraction,
punishable by jail time or a $1,000 fine. The law also would apply to
people traveling through San Francisco on U.S. Highway 101 or Interstate
Highway 80.

Yet police say such ammo is very rarely used in San Francisco gun
violence. The SFPD crime lab’s last recorded incident involving such
rounds was six years ago, according to police Sgt. Michael Andraychak.

Gun violence in San Francisco has been on an overall downward pattern
since 2007, but tighter restrictions on ammo are part of a nationwide
response to the carnage at Sandy Hook, where 20 first-graders and six
adults were killed by a gunman with an assault rifle.

Sales of all hollow-point rounds — bullets designed to flatten on
impact and be more lethal, but also not travel beyond the target — were
banned in San Francisco in 2007 by then-Mayor Gavin Newsom. But the
National Rifle Association filed a suit in 2008 to overturn the ban.

That suit was dismissed after a judge ruled that the ban on sales
within The City doesn’t prevent people from acquiring such ammo
elsewhere. But the case has been appealed.

Gun advocates called the new proposal vague and vowed legal action.
International rules of warfare ban the use of hollow points, Gene
Hoffman of the Calguns Foundation noted, while state Fish and Game
Department rules ban the use of anything but hollow points while
hunting.

Meanwhile, San Francisco police use .40-caliber hollow-point ammunition, which would remain available for purchase by civilians.

Read more at the San Francisco Examiner: http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/2013/03/san-francisco-ban-military-style-ammo-expected-pass#ixzz2Mg2flBry

So many idjits trying to solve a non-issue.

[Gunner Gatlin, SASS 10274L]

Saw that on Calguns...they label it right when they say a ban on 'self defense ammo'. San Fran legislators only empower the criminal...

 

GG

[Longhorn Jack]

Apparently they don't understand over penetration hollow points 99% of the time will stay in the targeted law breaker while full metal jacketed ammo 99%and end up killing some innocent bystander 17 blocks away after goimg completely through the intended law breaker. What a bunch of idiots. I did not acquire my cpl to wound a life threating criminal attacking me I learned in cpl class to kill said attacker GRAVE YARD DEAD. Law enforcement doesn't shot to wound armed threating criminals and neither would I. Center mass1 in the head and 2 in the chest. Done