<!-- * Set TOPICTITLE = California Legislation for 2016 --> ---+ %TOPICTITLE% | *Status* | *Text* | *Bill* | *Summary* | *Impact* | | *DEAD 4/13/16* | [[http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2459][Text]] | [[http://nramemberscouncils.com/legs.shtml?summary=ab2459&year=2016][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. | | *IN PLAY 6/30/16* | [[http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2510][Text]] | [[http://nramemberscouncils.com/legs.shtml?summary=ab2510&year=2016][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 * | [[http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2607][Text]] | [[http://nramemberscouncils.com/legs.shtml?summary=ab2607&year=2016][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* | [[http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1135][Text]] | [[http://nramemberscouncils.com/legs.shtml?summary=ab1135&year=2016][AB1135]] | Assault weapon ban; copy of SB880 | Same as SB880 | | *SIGNED 7/1/16* | [[http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1511][Text]] | [[http://nramemberscouncils.com/legs.shtml?summary=ab1511&year=2016][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* | [[http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1695][Text]] | [[http://nramemberscouncils.com/legs.shtml?summary=ab1695&year=2016][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* | [[http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1176][Text]] | [[http://nramemberscouncils.com/legs.shtml?summary=ab1176&year=2016][AB1176]] | Punish all firearms thefts as grand theft. | | | *VETOED 7/1/16* | [[http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1673][Text]] | [[http://nramemberscouncils.com/legs.shtml?summary=ab1673&year=2016][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* | [[http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1674][Text]] | [[http://nramemberscouncils.com/legs.shtml?summary=ab1674&year=2016][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* | [[http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2607][Text]] | [[http://nramemberscouncils.com/legs.shtml?summary=ab2607&year=2016][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* | [[http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB880][Text]] | [[http://nramemberscouncils.com/legs.shtml?summary=sb880&year=2016][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. <i>Does not affect featureless rifles.</i><br>Side effect: Registered assault weapons wouldn't need compliance devices anymore - i.e. no bullet buttons required. | | *VETOED 7/1/16* | [[http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB894][Text]] | [[http://nramemberscouncils.com/legs.shtml?summary=sb894&year=2016][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. | | *IN PLAY 7/1/16* | [[http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1006][Text]] | [[http://nramemberscouncils.com/legs.shtml?summary=sb1006&year=2016][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. | | *IN PLAY 7/1/16* | [[http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1037][Text]] | [[http://nramemberscouncils.com/legs.shtml?summary=sb1037&year=2016][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.<br>Effectively extends SOL to 5 years unless the act was discovered sooner and no charges were filed. | | *SIGNED 7/1/16* | [[http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1235][Text]] | [[http://nramemberscouncils.com/legs.shtml?summary=sb1235&year=2016][SB 1235]] | Expands "handgun ammunition" laws to cover all non-blank ammunition | Wording <i>“ammunition” includes, but is not limited to, any bullet, cartridge, <b>magazine, clip, speed loader</b>, autoloader, or projectile capable of being fired from a firearm with a deadly consequence</i> is interesting. Magazines themselves are not fired from a firearm. | | *IN PLAY 7/1/16* | [[http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1407][Text]] | [[http://nramemberscouncils.com/legs.shtml?summary=sb1407&year=2016][SB 1407]] | "Ghost Gun" bill - serialization | Starting Jul 1 2018, people must obtain a serial number prior to completing an 80% receiver.<br>Jan 1 2019, criminalizes possession of unserialized firearms <i>(no exception for very old guns made without serial numbers)</i><br>Bans the sale of all guns built from 80% receivers. | | *SIGNED 7/1/16* | [[http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1446][Text]] | [[http://nramemberscouncils.com/legs.shtml?summary=sb1446&year=2016][SB 1446]] | Ban on possession of large capacity magazines | Possession of >10rd mags becomes an infraction (not misdemeanor or felony), capped at $500.<br>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. | -- Main.SeanNewton - 29 Jan 2014
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