Supervisors Reject Ammunition Sale Curb
A proposed ban on the sale of ammunition in unincorporated territory the week before New Year’s Eve and July 4 was rejected Tuesday by a 3-2 vote of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.
The ordinance was proposed by Supervisor Kenneth Hahn and supported by Police Chief Daryl F. Gates and Sheriff Sherman Block in an effort to deter holiday revelers from firing guns into the air.
But the board’s three-man conservative majority opposed the measure, claiming that it would be difficult to enforce. Hahn’s liberal colleague Ed Edelman supported the ordinance. A similar ordinance is under consideration by the Los Angeles City Council.
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