New Laws Critical to Closing Loopholes in Gun Laws, Says California Attorney General’s Office
Press release from the California Attorney General’s Office:
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today issued the following statement after California Governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation to further strengthen California’s common-sense gun-safety laws. The new laws will be critical to closing loopholes and strengthening ammunition background checks.
Attorney General Becerra is committed to strengthening and protecting California’s gun-safety measures. Attorney General Becerra sponsored both Senate Bill 376, introduced by Senator Anthony Portantino, and Assembly Bill 1669, introduced by Assemblymember Rob Bonta.
“California continues to lead when it comes to implementing common-sense measures that protect our communities from gun violence,” said Attorney General Becerra. “The signing of these bills – SB 376 and AB 1669 – strengthens existing law to deter and prevent needless gun violence. The California Department of Justice will continue to work in conjunction with the legislature to protect and promote public safety in our state.”
“It is important we create equal laws when it comes to handguns and long guns as both types of firearms can produce the same outcome,” said Senator Portantino. “SB 376 would make it so the definition of infrequent sales under the Department of Justice would include all types of firearms not just handguns and help keep all firearms out of the wrong hands.”
“AB 1669 is an important measure to close loopholes and ensure all firearms and ammunition vendors who conduct business in California are subject to the same licensing and reporting requirements without exception,” said Assemblymember Bonta. “This bill is also a critical step toward ensuring that the DROS account, which is the source of funding for firearm background checks and other critical gun safety enforcement, possesses the resources necessary for the State of California to meet its obligations to administer and enforce our nation-leading gun safety laws. I’m grateful to Attorney General Becerra for partnering with me to champion this important legislation.”
Each of these measures will strengthen existing law:
SB 376: Prevents individuals from selling large numbers of firearms without a license by capping the number of annual sales allowed at five transactions or 50 firearms. It also caps the number of firearms an individual can manufacture each year at 50. It will also close a loophole that allows firearms to be auctioned or raffled off without a background check.
AB 1669: Ensures that all vendors who participate in California gun shows are required to obtain the same licenses and receive the same treatment under the law.
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🕯🌳Banning Assualt type rifles or clips or ammunition is a start,but most gun deaths in the United States are by hand guns and usually and sadly suicide or armed robbery.
I bet no one even knows how ridiculous this truely is.. ok ammk background checks but gun clubs, and LEOs are exempt wonder who will be affected by closing this “loophole” we have universal background checks in CA so someone must not be doing there job to be concerned about how frequent one sells firearms what about hard time and you have to sell your collection. Nope against the law too frequent of sales
Go fight crime you lazy bums stop making criminals out of law abiding
I Agree
I think you will find “domestic violence” accounts for a large number of those deaths.
Yeah , literally over 22 times more deaths are caused by handguns. But most of those deaths are black guys murdering other black guys using stolen handguns. That doesn’t scare white ladies the same way mass shooting with assault rifles do.
For the record I support banning all rifles modified for killing people, and all handguns.
For the record, you [edit: do] not see the real problem, lack of justice for those who commit crimes with guns. Guns don’t kill people, PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE. Have you ever seen a gun go outside by itself and find someone to shoot? Even if all guns were banned, God I hope not, there will still be violent crime and deaths in this country.
People can make their own ammo all day. They can make AK 47s, AR 15s, and any other kind of weapon they want, no background checks, no taxes to those who want to rule us. Every day children are being taught how to reload bullets, shoot many types of weapons, and learn how to build guns. They learn those who want our guns are trying to control us. They support those protesters in Hong Kong, agree with South Park, and fuck the Chinese government. They are calling sponsors of the NBA, informing them they will no longer buy their products, until they condemn the Chinese govt for their oppression of human rights. They also agree, fuck the US govt, and especially, fuck the govt of Calif, fuck Gavin.
bunch of BS
criminals dont follow the law or rules
the new laws only screw us subjects
there is no law no rule nothing out there that will stop criminals from doing what they want with any kind of gun or weapon.
ban every kind of gun or weapon like many other countries and gun violence will still go on and on and on .
Clear lake fool, thats just too logical.
According to the logic CA should be one of the safest states. Nope thats Maine , vermont,wyoming. All with the right to carry concealed with no license and no restrictions on type of weapons(at state level) and no magizine restriction..
nope gun problem not a scumbag problem
Clear and spartan,
thanks.
The slow creep of bureacratic tyranny.
Criminals will get Guns on the Black Market like they have done for years and No one is stopping them. This is just our Goverment Trying to Screw Over Law Abiding Citizens and Game Hunters, like deer, bear, ect. Besides Guns Don’t Kill People, People kill people if there in the wrong Hands. So how are they gonna stop the Black Market I Wonder? If our Attorney General had common Sense he would look at the whole picture, not just how to make more money off people.
More laws to add to the 40 or so on the books already, which are not being enforced or not working. One or the other, but not additional laws to be imposed on the law abiding citizens. Just more red tape, money forced upon the citizens to make some politicians be able to claim they voted for more gun restrictions and did something about gun violence.
Seriously, a joke. Criminals will not follow the laws….hello, they are criminals.
By the way, has anybody been tracking the stabbings in and around Arcata for the past 10 years, there have been way more stabbing deaths than gun deaths…I would say two to one.
Bill i could be wrong, but i have a book that has CA gun laws only 2019. I would say closer to 200 min than 40
~the more corrupt the State, the more Codes. NOT laws. If you can’t distinguish between the two – read the constitutions – fed and state – and refrain from commenting in here, saying; “More laws to add to the 40 …” and/or “CA gun laws . .blah, blah, blah.” (this is FAR from being specific to just two commenters & i don’t mean to direct as such).
This isn’t a game.
Communication still down on the west coast :-(( she reports to her sovereign friends in far away lands.
The constitution refers to itself as law. Does ANY, ANY, ANY, ANY, of the codes you refer to as “law” ever, ever, ever, ever, have the word law within itself?
NO. NOPE. UH, UH.
Why continue to believe, think, write, speak, act, habit, value, into a “history repeats itself” destiny that you/we have full-blown choice in creating —by focusing energy on falsehoods?
i don’t get it.
Free i phone and block of government cheese for every firearm turned in!
“A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,
the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”
“The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes…. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”
– Thomas Jefferson, Commonplace Book (quoting 18th century criminologist Cesare Beccaria), 1774-1776
“A militia when properly formed are in fact the people themselves…and include, according to the past and general usuage of the states, all men capable of bearing arms… “To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.”
– Richard Henry Lee, Federal Farmer No. 18, January 25, 1788
Thanks.
This is exactly why the government passes these kinds of laws, as an end run around the bill of rights. To kill a culture of resistance and self reliance. It’s what our leaders are paid to do, that and enforce narrative control. History speaks for itself.
That was 240 years ago, when reloading took literally minutes. I agree all black powder and muzzle loaders should be totally legal!
Assault style rifles and the like, built only for mass killing and stupid little dick guys to feel tough- those should be outlawed for sure. Believe me if Tommy Jefferson were alive he would be on board. He was a very worldly fellow, and a big fan of French culture.
The Puckle gun predates the Bill of Rights (301 years ago). Using your “logic,” machine guns should, therefore, be “totally legal.”
“Assault style rifles and the like, built only for mass killing and stupid little dick guys to feel tough- those should be outlawed for sure.”
And abortion is legal because millions of individuals, probably including yourself, are unable to control their urges and are unwilling to accept the responsibilities that logically come from acting upon those urges.
My family survived the Holodomor (Ukrainian famine). We remember that government was the leading cause of mass death in the 20th Century. I have self-defense tools that would make a repeat “unpleasant” for those who seek to do it again.
~love you, John Keller, more than words can say.
Great comment, thank you.
Meanwhile in Hong Kong:
California doesn’t lead the nation in anything, except taxes. Which is what the ammo law is. You just have to pay another tax.
/”You just have to pay another tax”/
~paying for our own demise. Or, just say “No”. Lemmie see . ..
Another useless CA law from the clueless ones. Who also bring us $4 plus a gallon gas. Another bunch of gun laws that will help employ more gang members as they bring in more black market guns to offset these stricter laws that ONLY the honest people follow.
High taxes,high poverty rates,huge homeless problems & nonsense gun laws that do nothing to keep weapons out of the hands of criminals.
I’m sure these democrats are working on raising or creating a new tax or two.
How is it common sense to pass laws that people who don’t follow laws will continue to not follow? The only people this will affect are formerly law-abiding citizens.
So what are these new gun laws ? The police can’t even explain them. Much less the people who write them.
^^^that’s the whole idea!^^^
~how long we go along w/this Keystone Cop buffoonery is but a question of time.
“Hail the LiTTLE Caesars”
Laws are like cobwebs, catch a few flies but let hornets and wasps through. Somebody said that
Thank god. I feel so much safer. Now all of the sitting ducks at legal grows will be safe from armed robbers. Let me guess what your average lib would say. Probably something like: They should have armed security. Hey, maybe we the people can all hire private, armed security too. Liberalism is a mental disorder.
Man you need a new thought. You are like a broken record. Have you ever made a comment that doesn’t include the word lib? If you can further your ideals without putting down the opposing side, more people will listen to your argument.
How typical… Object to a liberal’s ideas and they don’t attack the objection, they attack the objector. Hello. That was the point. Liberal’s are defined by using the law to force social change, burdening only those who willing to follow laws. Add more and more of such laws, more and more people run into laws that they find they will refuse to follow as simultaneously they find that laws which protect the quality of their lives are less and less enforced. California already has regulations up the wahzoo, has a well above average rate of violent crime https://www.statista.com/statistics/200445/reported-violent-crime-rate-in-the-us-states/ and a below average incarceration rate https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_incarceration_and_correctional_supervi . In other words, California does not do an even adequate job of enforcing laws now. Adding more laws without the ability to enforce them will be like a common news report – man apprehended for new crimes committed while out on bond or OR, with additional gun charges, released on new bond pending absolutely no incarceration expected by the court system.
And that’s the practical result without considering the principles involved. So you think again.
Exactly.
Bottomline – no matter how you slice it, it turns to “abolish private property”. Disarm and steal from us like thieves in the night, is where i go. You know that.
~i think few have a clue how very far we’ve drifted from the republic.
The universally recognized principles of the common law, have been supposed to be fundamental
and unchangeable. They assume that the parties are guilty; they call upon the parties to establish their innocence can be shown only in one-way – by inquisition, in the form of a expurgatory oath, into the consciences of the parties . . [Quoting from papers of Alexander Hamilton] “If we examine it (the measure requiring the oath) we must acknowledge, not only that it was an evasion of the treaty, but a subversive of one great principle of social security, to wit: that every man shall be presumed innocent until he is proven guilty. This was to invert the order of things; and, instead of obligating the state to prove the guilt, in order to inflict the penalty, it was to oblige the citizen to establish his own innocence to avoid the penalty . . . it is substituting a new and arbitrary mode of prosecution to that ancient highly esteemed one recognized by the laws and Constitution of the State. I mean trial by jury. … (T)hat the legislature should at no time erect any new jurisdiction which should not protect according to the course of common law. Nothing can be more repugnant to the true genius of the common law than such an inquisition as has been mentioned, into the consciences of men… this proceeding would be tyrannical…”
Cummins v. The State of Missouri,
4 Wall. (U.S.) 277, 328-331 (1866)
wow glad to see people heckling dems finally around here
Violence was not and is not a gun problem. It was and is a morality problem. Ironically, the same people who tell us we “can’t legislate morality” legislate morality every time they issue one of these decrees. Trouble is, the ones doing the killing are rarely affected. Which brings us to the question of whether these “officials” are just stupid and dense, or, have a much more nefarious purpose in decreeing endless restrictions on decent folk.
I support a Woman’s Right to Choose…to carry concealed without a license.
Yep, the new ammo restrictions are working great! Participation at sanctioned rifle and pistol tournaments is almost non existent now. One more reason NOT to to allow the private possession of firearms! Sporting purpose? Nah, nobody uses a gun for that. Well Regulated Militia? Oh, haven’t you heard? That means the National Guard, which is supplied and subject to orders from the US Army. A $19.00 Back ground check plus a transaction tax for a box of .22 ammo. Oh, wait, you didn’t get your REAL ID? Sorry, you don’t qualify. Don’t worry, you will be much safer now.
/”That means the National Guard, which is supplied and subject to orders from the US Army”/
~that’s a wide-open statement. Can you provide the purview part? …from wenst does this delegated authority flow?
A CHP friend of mine fails the $1 ammo check, as do most of his LEO coworkers. He passes the $19 extended background check just fine. I’m sure it’s just a temporary glitch in the system. Essentially, nobody i know passes the instant check. It’s fun watching typically law abiding conservative folks that have never even taken a hit off a joint engage the black market for the first time. Way to go la/bay area liberals, your policies are just so rock solid with well thought out, fact free logic. Works every time.
Make sure too stop by the Republican headquarters in eureka on Broadway across from Starbucks and sign a recall gavin Newsom slip. Time for people to stand up for themselves. Another clear violation of the constitution by gavin and company. Riparian water rights!!!
What’s next wake up people!!!