The “California Senate Package” includes the following bills, which were passed by the full Senate on Thursday, May 19, 2016:
SB 880 & AB 1135 (identical bills) – closes bullet button loophole to assault weapons ban
SB 1235 & AB 156 (identical bills) – licensing ammo sellers and ammo background check by crosschecking AFS and APPS
SB 1407 & AB 857 (identical bills) – regulating “ghost guns” – requires serial number, background check and record
SB 894 – requires reporting of lost or stolen firearms to law enforcement
SB 1006 – establishes UC Firearm Violence Research Center
SB 1446 – prohibits possession of large capacity magazines
AB 1176 – calls for special election to makes firearm theft grand theft (punishable as felony) regardless of value, 10 year prohibition for certain firearm misdemeanors
AB 1511 – limits loan of a firearm to immediate family members (spouse or registered domestic partner, or to a parent, child, sibling, grandparent, or grandchild).
Most bills passed with a comfortable margin (24-15).
These bills will no go on to the Assembly.
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