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Question With Regards to Selling 500 Rounds Per Month

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Assume I sell 500 rounds of ammo today, December 21st. Can I sell 500 rounds on January 1st, or would I need to wait 30 days after my last transaction to sell more?

Thanks.
 
I once asked an FFL if they do private ammo transfers and they just laughed, take that for what you will.
 
Assume I sell 500 rounds of ammo today, December 21st. Can I sell 500 rounds on January 1st, or would I need to wait 30 days after my last transaction to sell more?

Thanks.
Do what you will, (regardless of whether you can find a FFL to do the transfer) but the statute (https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/...um=30342.&nodeTreePath=9.4.11.1.3&lawCode=PEN) says:
30342.
(a) Commencing January 1, 2018, a valid ammunition vendor license shall be required for any person, firm, corporation, or other business enterprise to sell more than 500 rounds of ammunition in any 30-day period.

DOJ FAQs (#4) follow the statute: https://oag.ca.gov/firearms/avlfaqs...or%20license%20is,%2C%20§§%2030342%2C%2030347)
 
Fun Fact:
There is no such thing as an Ammo PPT in the DES system. Stores just run the standard ammo check.
Since the Store is never putting in seller sold xxx rounds and just runs a check on the buyer I don't know how they think they can enforce that.
I keep a copy of the sellers ID with the paperwork but unless the seller does 4 500 round ammo PPT's at the same store in a short period it will be very difficult to catch with no electronic records.

Having said that. Don't break the law.
 
If anyone is interested in history, there's a famous quote. Something along the lines of "if a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so," sometimes associated with Jefferson or King.
Another, from Thoreau goes "Unjust laws exist; shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once? Men generally, under such a government as this, think that they ought to wait until they have persuaded the majority to alter them. They think that, if they should resist, the remedy would be worse than the evil. But it is the fault of the government itself that the remedy is worse than the evil. It makes it worse. Why is it not more apt to anticipate and provide for reform? Why does it not cherish its wise minority? Why does it cry and resist before it is hurt? Why does it not encourage its citizens to be on the alert to point out its faults, and do better than it would have them?”
 
Sometimes ammo just falls out and someone happens to find it. Then turn around there may be cash that the other person found.
 
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