Bullet Permits...No Thank You.

From the Raleigh News and Observer

Ammunition proposal is focus of lobbying

DURHAM -- An effort to get Durham officials to seek legislation that would require people buying ammunition to first obtain a permit has touched off a lobbying campaign by both supporters and opponents.

The Rev. Melvin Whitley of Durham has been lobbying to get what he calls the "Bullet Ownership Bill" on a list of legislation sought by Durham officials in the coming legislative session.

Among the bill's provisions: required permits for buying ammunition and a prohibition on ammunition purchase by several classes of people, including convicted felons, drug addicts and the mentally ill.

In December, Whitley presented his bill to a City Council work session, at which the council agreed to consider putting it on Durham's legislative wish list.

Grassroots North Carolina, a group that bills itself as supporters of Second Amendment Rights on gun ownership, has sent an alert to its members, asking them to send letters of opposition to Durham City Council members. And folks who support Whitley's proposals are sending the council letters, too.

Durham officials were scheduled to discuss the proposal today along with other requests for legislation, but the meeting has been canceled.

Here's the GRNC Alert on the Reverend Whitley's scheme.

In effect Whitley wants to require permits or licensing to purchase ammunition statewide ala Illinois. You guys that think "that's just Durham" are dead wrong. The intent here is to go statewide.

GRNC is a very effective guns rights organization. I hope the Council sees this as a no win issue and is backing down but wouldn't put it past them to try to schedule a last minute meeting on this one so as to limit the opposition present. The fix on the Durham end may already be in. We are, after all, the ONLY county in North Carolina where residents are required to register their handguns. By all means call members of the Durham City Council and let them know how you feel, but call your State Representatives and let them know you oppose this harebrained product of am anti-gun zealot's befuddled mind so that maybe it will die in gestation.