A little history, and a little warning
The Gun Control Act of 1968 (GCA 68) put record keeping requirements on ammo sales, nation wide. And while over time, the restrictions were eased a lot, they were still in the law until the Firearms Owner Protection Act of 1986 (FOPA 86) finally ended them.
The thumbprint requirement is just the same old horse with a new saddle.
Al did a fine job of summarizing the pending court challenges to many of CA's onerous gun laws, and until these play out, nothing is permanent.
Now, a word to all the posters, especially our newer ones;, please read/refresh your memory about the special rules of behavior in the L&CR forum.
Name calling and denigrating the state of California is not acceptable here. I know its emotionaly satisfying, but that kind of thing should be saved for other forums. No matter how upset we are at the job the current administators of the state are doing, invective speech, including changing the spelling of the state name are not to be done here in this forum.
Its a slippery slope thing, you see.
and no, I'm not from California.