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Back when I still lived in Pasadena, California, we had "ammo registration" for a while. The city passed an ordinance requiring all in-store ammunition purchases to be recorded. The buyer's identity had to be confirmed, via CDL, their address recorded in a book, and then the quantity, caliber, brand and lot number of all ammunition purchased. One day I made a buy of maybe 200 rounds of .45, some .44 magnum, some .22LR, and some .308, and it took longer to fill out the paperwork than it did to pick out the ammo and pay for it.

What caused the whole blasted scheme to fall apart was that the ordinance also called for the Pasadena PD to collect and maintain the records from all the stores in the city, and then the city cut the department's budget so that the chief had to choose between staffing squad cars or staffing the records room. He finally announced that the city council could do whatever they wanted to him, but he simply wasn't going to enforce the ordinance any longer, and he didn't care what their reaction was to be. He also pointed out that in suburban SoCal, someone could simply drive another couple of miles and buy ammo outside of Pasadena......and give their business to a sporting goods store that wasn't part of the Pasadena tax base. He also gave a mildly pro-2nd Amendment statement at the time. He was a long time and well respected chief, and the city wasn't about to fire him or discipline him over it, and they quietly let the matter drop. A few months later, they repealed the ordinance without announcing the repeal.

Idiots.