California Enacts More Gun Control Laws

Yet again California residents are faced with more gun control laws. The governor of California has signed 8, you heard that right, 8, new gun control bills within the last week.

Renzulli Law Firm, who is recognized as one of the premier law firms in the country serving the Firearms Industry, gave a brief explanation of how each bill is going to affect the residents:

• Senate Bill 61 expands the existing limit on the purchase of only one handgun within a thirty-day period to also apply to semiautomatic centerfire rifles. It also restricts the exemption that allows persons between the ages of eighteen and twenty who have a valid hunting license or have been honorably discharged from the armed forces to purchase a rifle or shotgun, by providing that it does not allow them to purchase semiautomatic centerfire rifles.

• Senate Bill 172 imposes new requirements for the storage of firearms. It applies the existing criminal penalties if a child obtains access to a loaded firearm to an unloaded firearm. It requires firearms owned by residents of “community care facilities for adults, residential care facilities for persons with chronic life-threatening illness, and residential care facilities for the elderly” to be “centrally stored in a locked gun safe.” It also imposes a ten-year ban on owning firearms for anyone convicted of violating various firearm storage laws. SB 172 imposes additional requirements regarding the warnings that must be posted at the premises of firearms dealers.

• Assembly Bill 12 extends the potential duration of a “gun violence restraining order” from one year to five years. It also allows a person subject to a “gun violence restraining order” to submit a written request for a hearing to terminate the order once per year while the order is in effect. In addition, it allows a law enforcement officer to file a petition for a “gun violence restraining order” in the name of the law enforcement agency by which he is employed.

• Assembly Bill 61 expands the list of persons who can file an ex parte petition for a “gun violence restraining order” against a person from an immediate family member or law enforcement officer, to also include an employer, co-worker, or an employee or teacher of a secondary or postsecondary school that the person has attended in the last six months.

• Assembly Bill 879 requires the sale of “firearm precursor parts” to be conducted through a licensed “firearm precursor part vendor,” which would include existing licensed firearms dealers and ammunition vendors. A “firearm precursor part” is defined as an unfinished receiver or an unfinished handgun frame that is not considered to be a firearm pursuant to federal law. Sales of “firearm precursor parts” would be subject to state background checks and record keeping requirements. It would also prohibit the sale of “firearm precursor parts” to persons less than twenty-one years or age, or who are prohibited from owning firearms, and prohibit “firearm precursor parts” from being brought into the state except through a licensed “firearm precursor part vendor.”

• Assembly Bill 893 prohibits the sale of firearms and ammunition at the Del Mar Fairgrounds, at which gun shows had been held about five times per year.

• Assembly Bill 1297 removes the $100 limit on the fee that a city, city and county, or county may charge for a license to carry a concealed firearm (in addition to the fees charged by the California Department of Justice), and requires them to charge a fee “equal to the reasonable costs for processing the application for a new license, issuing the license, and enforcing the license, including any required notices.”

• Assembly Bill 1669 updates the requirements for the sale of ammunition at gun shows to conform to the Safety for All Act of 2016. It requires gun show organizers to provide a list of the names and driver’s license or identification card numbers of all persons intending to “lease or rent, any table, display space, or area at the gun show or event for the purpose of selling, leasing, or transferring firearms, or processing the sale or transfer of ammunition” upon the request of a law enforcement agency with jurisdiction over the facility where the gun show is to be held. It also authorizes the California Department of Justice to require dealers to charge firearm purchasers a new fee of $31.19 to “offset the reasonable costs of firearms-related regulatory and enforcement activities related to the sale, purchase, manufacturing, lawful or unlawful possession, loan, or transfer of firearms.”

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