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The Monthly National Legislation Reporthttp://mnlreport.typepad.com/Page 162 of 3307/5/2010STATE ROUNDUP (Please note the only items listed below are those that have had recent action. For other updates on state legislation, please go to the statelegislation section at www.NRAILA.org, and check each week’s issue of the Grassroots Alert.”)CALIFORNIA: Ammo Registration Ordinance Passes in Carson! On July 21, the City of Carson passed an ordinance that requires theregistration of all ammunition sales. The ordinance also requires all ammunition vendors to obtain a license from the City, and will additionally require that allammunition sales transactions to be conducted via a face-to-face transaction, effectively banning mail order and Internet purchases of ammunition. The ordinance isnow waiting on the desk of Mayor Jim Dear for his consideration. The ordinance does not require his signature to become law, and as such it will go into effect August20, 2009.Gun Show Ban Remains on the Assembly Floor On July 15, the Assembly Appropriations Committee passed Senate Bill 585. The bill now heads to the Assembly floor.SB585 would prohibit the sale of firearms and ammunition on the property or inside the buildings that comprise the Cow Palace in Daly City. In short, SB585 is astepping-stone to banning gun shows on all publicly-owned property in California. Please contact your Assemblymember TODAY and respectfully urge them to opposeSB585. Contact information for your Assemblymember can be found here.Fish and Wildlife Service Management Plan Includes Hunting in the Modoc National Wildlife Refuge The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has released a management plan forthe 7000-acre Modoc National Wildlife Refuge, located southeast of Alturas, California. The draft plan evaluates four alternatives for managing the refuge over the next15 years. Common to all the alternatives is the implementation of a hunting and fishing program. Comments on the plan are being accepted until Friday, July 30 andcan be submitted by email to Jackie_Ferrier@fws.gov. The plan can be viewed online at http://www.fws.gov/modoc. For additional information please call 530-233-3572. It is important for the Service to receive support for maintaining and enhancing hunting opportunities on national wildlife refuges, especially in light of continuingefforts by animal “rights” extremists to close refuges to hunting. Please take a few minutes to review the draft plan and submit comments.ILLINOIS: Continue To Contact Governor Quinn To Sign Pro-Gun Bill Anti-gun groups are urging the Governor to veto HB182. This important pro-gun reform bill, wouldsimply change the “Unlawful Use of Weapons (UUW)” law, adding "dwelling" and "dwelling of another" where a person has been invited with permission to possess afirearm, to the list of exemptions in which a law-abiding citizen is currently restricted from carrying a firearm. Please continue to contact Governor Quinn TODAY andrespectfully urge him to sign this critical reform. To contact the Governor, please call 312-814-2121 or click hereto send an email.NEBRASKA: Omaha City Council Passes Ordinance Requiring Fingerprinting for Firearm Sales! Last week, the Omaha City Council approved an ordinance that wouldrequire individuals who wish to sell firearms to "secondhand stores," such as Scheels, Guns Unlimited, and other places (which are notpawnbrokers), to be fingerprinted before the transaction can occur. The approved ordinance now heads to the desk of Mayor Jim Suttle (D) for his consideration. Pleasecontinue to contact Mayor Suttle TODAY and respectfully urge him to veto this ordinance. The Mayor can be reached by phone at (402) 444-5000 or visithttp://www.co.douglas.ne.us/omaha/mayor/contact-us to send an email. Also, please continue to contact the members of the City Council who voted for the ordinanceand respectfully voice your disapproval with their passage of this attack on our Second Amendment freedoms. Contact information can be found here.NEW YORK: Micro-Stamping Could Be Heard At Any Time as Balance of Power Changes Once Again The impasse in the New York Senate has ended with one of theoriginal defectors returning to the Democratic caucus in exchange for the top leadership post – Senate Majority Leader. This change returns the balance of power backto the Democrats who surely will focus their efforts on passing Senate Bill 6005, (“micro-stamping” legislation). Even though S6005 contains an amendment removingthe requirement that in-state manufacturers could only produce micro-stamp equipped semi-automatic handguns, the bill must be defeated at all costs. It is likely that avote on S6005 could come at any time. Please continue contacting your State Senators and respectfully urge them to oppose S6005 when it comes before them for avote. Contact information for your State Senator can be found by clicking here.Sportsmen’s Association for Firearms Education Inc. (S.A.F.E.) presents the 2009 Firearm Civil Rights Conference: Please join the Sportsmen’s Association for FirearmsEducation Inc. (S.A.F.E.) for its “2009 Firearm Civil Rights Conference”Sunday, September 13th,1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. (doors open at 12:00 noon)Sheraton Long Island Hotel110 Vanderbilt Motor ParkwaySmithtown, NY 11788(631) 231-1100(on Motor Parkway on the North side of LIE between exits 53 & 55)Special guests include Wayne LaPierre, NRA Executive Vice President; Ron Schmeits, NRA President; Dick Anthony Heller, plaintiff in the landmark Heller-v-WashingtonDC, case; Ginny Simone, NRA investigative reporter on firearms issues, and radio show host; and John L. Cushman, S.A.F.E. President and Founder, and NRA BoardMember.Attendees will have the opportunity to learn the latest information about firearm Civil Rights both nationally and locally, as well as meeting and networking with fellowsportsmen and women concerned about their civil rights and how to protect them. Valuable prizes in drawings will be awarded to attendees. Admission and parking arefree, and the event is open to your family and friends.NORTH CAROLINA: “Castle Doctrine” Self-Defense Bill Remains Stalled in Raleigh The “Castle Doctrine” self-defense bill, Senate Bill 928, remains stuck in the HouseJudiciary I Committee. That committee is chaired by anti-gun State Representative Deborah Ross (D-38), and she appears to be unwilling to set a date for a hearing.Please contact Representative Ross and urge her to allow this critical legislation—which received overwhelming, bi-partisan support in the Senate in May—to be heard.Representative Ross can be reached by phone at 919-733-5773 or e-mail Deborah.Ross@ncleg.net. Also, please contact the members of the House DemocraticLeadership team, who have histories of supporting our Right to Keep and Bear Arms. Contact information for them can be found here.