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At least one legislator is trying to stop it.

After the U.S. Supreme Court upheld certain powers of eminent domain, State Sen. Tom McClintock introduced a bill that would prevent California cities from taking property from one private owner and giving it to another.

“There is nothing that rankles the American soul more than an abuse of power that creates an injustice and that’s what the U.S. Supreme Court has now unleashed,” McClintock told FOX News.

“There is no right to steal somebody else’s property for personal gain. That is not a right that is recognized in any civilized society and we ought not to recognize it in ours,” he added.

McClintock’s bill and others like it around the nation could take months to become law, too late for Alsco, which is being pressured to sign on the dotted line this summer.

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California state Assemblyman Paul Koretz (search), D-West Hollywood, is one of the bill’s authors.

“Imagine how much easier it would be, in the case of my bill microstamping, if there was just a number and you call it into a database and you know exactly who it is in five or 10 minutes,” Koretz said.

Critics argue the laws will punish law-abiding citizens and sportsmen by raising costs. Those in the gun and ammo manufacturing business add that they’re tired of bearing the brunt of gun crime and accuse lawmakers of targeting their livelihood.

“I will stop selling ammo the day after. So if that’s what the lawmakers want, is that guys like me to get out of the ammunition business, then all they have to do is tell me I have to spend 15, 20 minutes to paperwork a $2 box of ammo and I’m out,” says Ted Szajer, owner of L.A. Guns.