Federal Judge Blocks California Background Check Requirement for Ammo Purchases - Now STAYED. Update 4/25/20

PLEASE NOTE:  As of 4/24/20 at 10:00pm PST, this order has been stayed.  This means that the old ammo rules in California still apply, and we CAN NOT ship an individual ammo.  All ammo purchases must go through an FFL dealer. 

U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez in San Diego ruled in favor of the California Rifle & Pistol Association, which asked him to stop the checks and related restrictions on ammo sales in California.

Here are some key quotes from Thursday's ruling:

• "While it is intended to keep ammunition from criminals, it blocked sales to legitimate, law-abiding buyers..."

• “The experiment has been tried. The casualties have been counted. California’s new ammunition background check law misfires and the Second Amendment rights of California citizens have been gravely injured,” Benitez wrote in a 120-page opinion granting the group’s motion for a preliminary injunction.

• Benitez called the ammunition background check law “onerous and convoluted” and “constitutionally defective.”

• “Criminals, tyrants, and terrorists don’t do background checks,” he wrote. “The background check experiment defies common sense while unduly and severely burdening the Second Amendment rights of every responsible, gun-owning citizen desiring to lawfully buy ammunition.”

• Benitez ruled that the ammunition law illegally locks out-of-state vendors out of California’s market, and that it conflicts with a federal law allowing gun owners to bring their firearms and ammunition through California.

We will be shipping ammo to individuals in California, but please be aware that this could change at any time and your order could be cancelled.  We are running 2-3 weeks behind on orders.