Criminals Cause Crime In California While California's legislature considers increasingly exotic ways to confound the lawful manufacture, purchase and use of firearms, it's obvious that the solution to the crime problem some lawmakers are claiming to address is already within their control. A suspect in the shooting death recently of a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy should have been behind bars instead of walking among law-abiding people, according to a news release from the Second Amendment Foundation. The SAF news release supports the notion that California's Attorney General Bill Lockyer, who supports initiatives to forbid the sale of ammunition and guns without micro-engraved identifying characteristics, should instead be working harder to keep behind bars the people who have already proven themselves a menace to society. Californians interested in opposing proposed laws that will effectively outlaw the possession of ordinary ammunition should learn more and contact their lawmakers with assistance from SAAMI, the standards-setting organization for firearm and ammunition makers and the California Association of Firearms Retailers.