Jerry Brown signs gun control bill

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Source: Sacramento Bee

Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a gun control measure eliminating an exemption for certain semiautomatic pistols from California’s unsafe handgun law, Brown’s office announced Friday.

Assembly Bill 1964, by Assemblyman Roger Dickinson, D-Sacramento, is designed to limit the exemption for single-shot pistols from the state’s unsafe handgun roster, excluding semiautomatic pistols altered to not fire in semiautomatic mode.

Gun control advocates argued the exemption allowed gun dealers to sell temporarily altered single-shot pistols to people who could convert them back into semiautomatic weapons that do not comply with state safety requirements.

The California Association of Federal Firearms Licensees, which opposed the bill, said it will “further narrow California’s already onerous and overly burdensome ‘not unsafe’ handgun roster and eliminate more firearms from the non-peace officer marketplace,” according to a legislative analysis.

Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2014/07/18/6566434/jerry-brown-signs-gun-control.html

[oldandhappy]

1. well well well

Did not know this was in the offing. Good on ya, gov.

[LoisB]

5. I didn't either. Just another reason to be glad we elected Jerry Brown.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

2. A fine example of the industry creating a product designed to exploit a loophole.

[seveneyes]

3. "non-peace officer marketplace"

Comply, Obey, Peace.

[BrotherIvan]

4. Big Rec!

[petronius]

6. Neither of these bills will have any effect on crime or public safety

Removing the single-shot exemption addresses a non-existent problem; despite what the article suggests, firearms coming into the state under that process are not 'unsafe' in any way, they're modern firearm models (as safe as any others on the roster) for which manufacturers have chosen not to go through the expense and hassle of listing. There's nothing to suggest that SSE firearms are involved in crime, accident, injury or death at a rate any different than any other gun.

The other bill (AB 1591) actually touches on a real problem, but doesn't address it meaningfully. The state auditor found last year that too many prohibited persons were not being reported to the state at all. Giving courts 1 day to make that report rather than 2 does nothing to fix the issue...

[samsingh]

9. we need to go further for sure

but its a start.

[petronius]

10. Not really a start: ineffective legislation is a distraction, a waste of

time, a source of friction, etc.

Now if AB 1591 had compelled courts to actually report prohibited persons in a more consistent manner, and/or provided incentives and removed obstacles to their doing so, that would have been progress...

[samsingh]

11. that's a good point

[calikid]

12. It is a good point.

None the less, I thanked him personally yesterday when he dropped by. He said it really didn't amount to much.

[ManiacJoe]

7. "California safety requirements"

That is always good for a laugh first thing in the morning. If only those laws had anything to do with safety....

[samsingh]

8. good for him.