If you ask me, Ammoday doesn't come often enough. If you haven't heard of ammoday, the premise is to defray the effectiveness of stupid shit like this.

Assemblyman Mark Ridley-Thomas (D-Los Angeles) is back with another bill to infringe upon the rights of legal gun owners.

You may recall that last year he had AB 992, which proposed a 10-cent tax per bullet on the sale of ammunition in California. This was soundly defeated. His new bill (AB 2858) would exempt people with a valid hunting license, but the fees would still apply to law-abiding target shooters who do not hunt.

The new bill would impose a 10 percent fee on all ammunition and a 5 percent fee on all handguns sold in California, in order to establish a "Firearm Victims Reimbursement Fund."

I guess the assumption is that buy buying a gun or ammuntion for your gun, you are contributing to gun violence and should be taxed accordingly. An analogous situation would be taxing all car owners for automobile 'accidents'. Since there are no true auto accidents (someone is invariably always at fault), it would be safe to say that by owning and operating an automobile, you are contributing to automobile accident victims. Perhaps California should add a 10% gas tax and 5% tax on the cost of new vehicles. (That should have the expected results on their economy.)

Of course, in reality it's all bunk. In California, it's already illegal to sell ammunition to criminals, so the only people affected are those who would obey the law any way. Combine this with their thumbprint efforts, and what you end up with is a hostile environment for legal retail sales of ammunition. It essentially becomes a total ban. (Which is really the whole idea.)

A black market of bootlegged ammunition is a near certainty, and once you have that all regulation efforts are in vain. On the black market, you can no longer control whether or not ammunition is sold to convicted felons or minors or anyone.

There is such a thing as too much regulation, and when you reach that point, otherwise law abiding citizens will feel much less compelled to obey the law. If you think in terms of alcohol prohibition, the ban actually made it more difficult to regulate the consumption of an already heavily regulated product and instead fostered so much law breaking that all regulation was rendered ineffective.

In the simplest of terms, the more California tightens their grip, the more California gun owners will slip through their fingers.