California Legislation for 2016

Status	Text	Bill	Summary	Impact
PASSED BY VOTERS 11/8/16	Text	Proposition 63	General ballot proposition.	Plenty of measures. Analysis pending.
SIGNED 7/22/16	Text	AB 857	Require that all unserialized guns be serialized and registered.	Will need to engrave serial numbers on all 80% guns, but C&R pieces and any non-handgun made prior to 12/16/1968 are exempt. § 479.102 seems to be the standard.
DEAD 4/13/16	Text	AB 2459	Additional FFL licensing requirements; probably close most gun shops in CA.	Prohibit home FFLs, require extensive video recording and 5yr storage, permit local governments to further restrict gun shops.
SIGNED 9/26/16	Text	AB 2510	Standardize forms for CCW application throughout CA	Would prevent cities from requiring psych exams or other extra obstructions not in keeping with the standard application form.
VETOED 7/1/16	Text	AB 2607	Revised Gun Violence Restraining Orders	Among other things, lets employers seek a GVRO and remove all of an employee's guns.
SIGNED 7/1/16	Text	AB1135	Assault weapon ban; copy of SB880	Same as SB880
SIGNED 7/1/16	Text	AB1511	Restructures "loan" of firearms to require FFL transfers	Family members may still loan guns to each other, but no one else may loan a gun to a friend to, for instance, try it out at the range.
SIGNED 7/1/16	Text	AB1695	Specifically criminalizes (perhaps enhances?) the crime of falsely reporting a firearm as stolen.	Likely this is to criminalize people who claim their assault weapons were "stolen" to avoid registration.
VETOED 7/1/16	Text	AB1176	Punish all firearms thefts as grand theft.
VETOED 7/1/16	Text	AB1673	Require registration of incomplete 80% firearm blanks	Deemed too broad (i.e. rectangular pieces of 3/8" steel could be deemed 80% 1919 sideplates)
VETOED 7/1/16	Text	AB1674	Apply one gun purchase per 30 days to all firearms, including PPT	Brown vetoed based upon the chilling effect it would have on folks disposing of firearms.
VETOED 7/1/16	Text	AB2607	Extend "gun violence restraining order" to employers, teachers, etc	Would have enabled capricious, punitive use of GVRO's to strip gun ownership.
SIGNED 7/1/16	Text	SB 880	Reclassifies "bullet button" equipped rifles as detachable magazine	Requires that pretty much all bullet button equipped rifles must be registered as assault weapons. Does not affect featureless rifles. Side effect: Registered assault weapons wouldn't need compliance devices anymore - i.e. no bullet buttons required.
VETOED 7/1/16	Text	SB 894	Alter theft reporting on firearms	Make it a crime to fail to report a stolen firearm within 5 days. Make it a crime to report a firearm lost or stolen when it wasn't.
DEAD 6/14/16	Text	SB 1006	Establish "California Firearm Violence Research Center".	Give grants for research on firearms violence. Grants are expected by pro-2A groups to go to anti-gun scaremongering vs scientific root cause analysis.
DEAD 4/20/16	Text	SB 1037	Redefines statutes of limitations on many things, handguns among them.	Statute of limitations changed to one year from the discovery of the transfer, but no more than five years from the act itself. Effectively extends SOL to 5 years unless the act was discovered sooner and no charges were filed.
SIGNED 7/1/16	Text	SB 1235	Expands "handgun ammunition" laws to cover all non-blank ammunition	Wording “ammunition” includes, but is not limited to, any bullet, cartridge, magazine, clip, speed loader, autoloader, or projectile capable of being fired from a firearm with a deadly consequence is interesting. Magazines themselves are not fired from a firearm.
DEAD 8/29/16	Text	SB 1407	"Ghost Gun" bill - serialization	Starting Jul 1 2018, people must obtain a serial number prior to completing an 80% receiver. Jan 1 2019, criminalizes possession of unserialized firearms (no exception for very old guns made without serial numbers) Bans the sale of all guns built from 80% receivers.
SIGNED 7/1/16	Text	SB 1446	Ban on possession of large capacity magazines	Possession of >10rd mags becomes an infraction (not misdemeanor or felony), capped at $500. The law does not prohibit continued possession of "rebuild kits", so the lawful path would be to disassemble any large capacity magazines and stick with 10rd magazines.

-- SeanNewton - 29 Jan 2014

Topic revision: r7 - 14 Jun 2017 - SeanNewton

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