BUYING AMMO?

REAL ID OR ID WITHOUT "FEDERAL LIMITS"

A valid CA ID (current name and not expired) is required.

If PO Box is on ID or address is not current, customers must provide evidence of the current address.

• Standard Check

  • $1 per Eligibility Check transaction for customers with the following:

    • At least 1 firearms record in the AFS (Automated Firearm System) that matches your current info on you CA ID (Name and address)​ such as:

      • Long Gun purchase since ​2014

      • Handgun Purchase since 1990

• Basic Check

  • $19 ​per Eligibility Check transaction is best for those who have not made a qualifying purchase or current information doesn't' match AFS record:

    • To track a Basic eligibility check or to update a gun record in AFS, visit ​cfars.doj.ca.gov

CA ID WITH FEDERAL LIMITS

Bring one of the following:

• Current Passport or Passport Card

• Current Birth Certificate

• Current Permanent Resident Card

• Current Foreign Passport with Valid Immigrant Visa/I-94 Document

• Certificate of Naturalization or U.S. Citizenship

• Certificate of Birth of an American Citizen Abroad

• Certified copy of Birth from a U.S. Territory

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If your name as shown on the documents listed above varies from the name printed on your CA DL/ID (due to marriage for example), you will need to also provide one of the follwoing documents:

• An adoption document that contains the legal name of the applicant as a result of the adoption

• A name change document that contains the applicant’s legal name both before and, as a result of, the name change.

• A marriage certificate.

• A dissolution of marriage document that contains the legal name of the applicant as a result of the court action

• A certificate, declaration or registration document verifying the formation of a domestic partnership

• A dissolution of domestic partnership document that contains the legal name of the applicant as a result of the court action