Olympic medalist files lawsuit over California bullet control law

By Chris Eger

Rhode won her first Olympic gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta Games five days after her 17th birthday — the youngest female Olympic shooting champion in the Games’ history — and is planning on making the Tokyo Olympics in 2020 her seventh visit, but in the meantime is taking California to court over their ammo laws. (Photo: NRA)
Six-time Olympic medal winner Kim Rhode has joined with gun rights groups and others to challenge the state’s new regulations on ammo sales.
Rhode, a California resident who burns through thousands of rounds per year training as a world champion trap and skeet shooter, is named as a plaintiff in a federal lawsuit filed Thursday against state Attorney General Xavier Becerra over the tenets of Proposition 63, which places a number of controls on the sale and transfer of ammunition.
The Olympian, who is on the 75-member board of the National Rifle Association, was joined in the lawsuit by its state affiliate, the California Rifle & Pistol Association, as well as a number of out of state ammo retailers who can no longer ship their products directly to state resident’s homes under the new rules.
The 31-page lawsuit argues Prop 63, which Second Amendment advocates characterized

Source: Guns.com