South Bay : GUNS AND AMMO
Nearly 100 gun enthusiasts this week helped shoot down a proposed Lawndale law that would have required anyone buying ammunition to fill out a registration form.
Los Angeles, Pasadena and West Hollywood have such laws, but the City Council voted down the ordinance after a line of critics protested the measure.
Complained Bill Hutcheson, a vice president for sport goods chain Turner’s Outdoorsman: “Knowing 6,000 people bought rounds for 9-millimeter guns in Lawndale will do nothing to help solve crimes.”
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