2016 California Firearms Legislation Summary
Every year, the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violencetracks and analyzes all firearm-related legislation introduced in the California Legislature, and helps craft and testify in support of bills to strengthen our gun safety laws.
This year, California legislators introduced an historic number of firearm-related bills, including numeroussignificant and innovative measures to improve public safety. So far, Governor Brown has signed six of these bills, including legislation to comprehensively regulate ammunition sales and close loopholes in our state’s assault weapon and large capacity magazine ban statutes. The Governor’s budget also appropriated funds to establish an academic research center in the UC system dedicated to the study of gun violence and prevention.
Amid these crucial successes, the Governor also vetoed some gun safety bills, including legislation to require gun owners to report the loss or theft of a firearm, to restrict bulk firearm purchases, and to regulate certain firearm components that enable individuals to self-assemble untraceable firearms.
A few bills are still awaiting the Governor’s signature, including a bill to strengthen state gun laws by requiring safe storage of handguns in unattended motor vehicles, as well as a bill seeking to weaken our gun laws by exempting large numbers of peace officers from California’s landmark Unsafe Handgun Act.
Gun Bills Signed by the Governor
• AB 1135 (Levine/Ting) and SB 880 (Hall/Glazer): Closing the bullet button loophole
• AB 1511 (Santiago): Narrowing firearm loansloophole
• AB 1695 (Bonta): Criminalizing false reports of lost or stolen firearms
• SB 1235 (De Leon): Comprehensive ammunition regulation (*SB 1235 provides that most of its provisions will become inoperative if Prop 63 ispassed by California voters this November*)
• SB 1446 (Hancock): Prohibiting possession of LCMs (*Prop 63 contains similar provisions but authorizes stronger penalties for individuals found in unlawful possession*)
• AB 857 (Cooper): “Ghost gun” serialization
Resolutions Adopted by the Legislature
• HR 52 (Rendon/Gipson): Recognizing Gun Violence Awareness Day
• SJR 20 (Hall): Opposing federal ban on CDC gun violence research
Gun Bills Vetoed by the Governor
• AB 1176 (Cooper): Placing Prop 47 fix on Nov.ballot (*Veto message noted that Prop 63includes similar provisions*)
• AB 1673 (Gipson): Regulating nearly finished firearm frames and receivers (“80% receivers”) as firearms
• AB 1674 (Santiago): One firearm per month
• AB 2607 (Ting): Expanding GVRO law
• SB 894 (Jackson): Lost/stolen reporting law
• AB 2165 (Bonta): Unsafe Handgun Act exception for more peace officers
• SB 869 (Hill): Safe handgun storage in unattended motor vehicles
• SB 877 (Pan): Improving violent death data collection
• SB 1324 (Hancock): Reauthorizing funding sources for anti-violence peer counselors
• AB 450 (McCarty): Requiring CCW permitting authorities to charge application fees; liftingstatutory fee cap
• AB 2510 (Linder): Uniform CCW licenses
• SB 1332 (Mendoza): Allowing new firearm loan exception and joint spousal “registration” of firearms
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