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California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed another package of firearm-related legislation on Saturday, Sept. 26, adding new restrictions and mandates during his final months in office.
The governor’s announcement covered 10 bills addressing firearms, protective orders, storage, youth programs and violence-prevention grants. NRA-ILA focused its response on six measures it says will directly burden gun owners, firearm purchasers and emerging technology.
Newsom described the package as another step in California’s “gun safety leadership.” NRA-ILA offered a very different assessment.
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The organization argued that the bills continue an aggressive record that already includes an 11% excise tax on firearms and ammunition, expanded red flag laws, carry restrictions and additional dealer regulations.
Newsom has signed more than 80 gun-related measures since taking office in 2019. The group also pointed to his proposed 28th Amendment, which would place several firearm restrictions into the U.S. Constitution.
Here is the brass-tacks breakdown of the six bills highlighted by NRA-ILA.
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AB 1743: Expanded Access to Firearm Data
Assembly Bill 1743 expands access to information California uses when analyzing recovered firearms.
Under the new law, California cities, counties, state agencies and qualifying universities may request information used by the Department of Justice to study firearms recovered from crimes or illegal possession.
NRA-ILA raised privacy concerns, citing California’s 2022 exposure of personal information belonging to firearm owners and concealed-carry permit holders. The official bill language primarily addresses recovered-firearm tracing and research data.
AB 1753: More Protective-Order Procedures
Assembly Bill 1753 makes numerous changes involving protective and restraining orders.
The firearm-related provisions explicitly require restrained individuals to relinquish ammunition along with their firearms. The law also expands database searches, notification procedures and enforcement of qualifying orders from other jurisdictions.
NRA-ILA views the measure as another expansion of California’s red flag system and argues that such orders can undermine due-process protections.
AB 1974: Voluntary Police Storage
Assembly Bill 1974 allows local police and sheriff’s departments to establish voluntary firearm-storage programs.
Participating agencies must explain how owners can surrender firearms temporarily and request their return. However, owners must pass California’s firearm-release process before recovering their property.
A firearm may be destroyed if the owner fails to retrieve it before the agency’s storage deadline. Destruction must be delayed if a timely release application remains under review.
NRA-ILA warned that California’s existing release bureaucracy could make retrieving a voluntarily stored firearm difficult or costly.
AB 2047: Restrictions on 3D Printers
Assembly Bill 2047 directs the California Department of Justice to monitor whether ASTM International adopts standards for firearm-blocking technology in 3D printers.
If workable standards emerge, California DOJ must develop rules. One year after those rules take effect, covered printers sold in California would need technology capable of detecting firearm blueprints and stopping the print job.
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The restriction is therefore contingent on future industry standards and regulations. It is not an immediate blanket ban on current printers.
NRA-ILA still considers the law a broad threat to innovation, lawful technology and protected speech.
SB 948: Four-Hour Training and Live Fire
Senate Bill 948 significantly expands California’s Firearm Safety Certificate requirements.
Beginning Jan. 1, 2029, applicants must complete at least four hours of training within the preceding year. The course must include firearm handling, safety instruction and live-fire exercises.
The law also adds requirements for people bringing firearms into California. NRA-ILA says the mandate creates another time and cost barrier for lawful gun ownership.
SB 1220: New 10-Year Firearm Prohibition
Senate Bill 1220 adds another misdemeanor to California’s list of convictions carrying a 10-year firearm prohibition.
The restriction applies to certain offenses involving firearms with altered or removed serial numbers or identifying marks. NRA-ILA argues that the bill further expands the number of misdemeanor convictions capable of suspending a constitutional right for a decade.
Newsom and supporters frame the broader package as a public-safety effort targeting dangerous people, unsecured firearms and emerging technology. NRA-ILA sees another round of mandates aimed primarily at people already attempting to follow the law.
Either way, California gun owners now have more laws to track, and several will require additional state rules before their full impact becomes clear.
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California has led the way with laws protecting the public from pollution, crime, and social programs and gun laws. What is adopted in California eventually gets adopted by the more primitive U.S. States.
Each year 45,000 people are gunned down and that includes 1,500 children which the Far Right say is “acceptable” on the depraved Altar of zero gun control.
The sad story is that without a Federal Law mimicking California’s gun control laws guns from primitive states continue to filter illegally into California making a Federal Law not only desirable but mandatory for the new system to work.
The following is necessary to insure that the Capitalvania falls in line with the same proven gun control that has worked so well in all other civilized countries.
1. Registration of all weapons and no private sales without paperwork and vetting. Most guns used in crime are purchased through private sales which is pure insanity.
2. Deep vetting that mimics Japan’s very successful gun laws which actually allow the ownership of high power semi-auto rifles and semi-auto shotguns,
3. Mandatory safe storage laws which would save on average 1,500 children a year and cut way down on smash and grab robberies of deadly weapons.
4. Mandatory training in safe gun handling.
5. Mandatory knowledge of all gun laws.
6. Banning the right to own a firearm for those who engage in violent behavior, especially toward their wives.
7. Mental tests to prove a persons sanity before a permit to purchase is granted.
8. Interviews with a persons co-workers and neighbors to uncover people who act erratically, threaten people, beat wives, or have been know to engage in acts of brutality. You would be surprised how much your neighbors and co-workers actually know about you.
9. Severe punishment of anyone selling an unregistered weapon.
10. Special training for concealed or open carry of firearms.
This is how civilized countries cut way down on homicides and mass murder. The proof of that is their gun laws which have resulted in way lower loss of life from firearms.
No gun laws are perfect but not to have them is the present horrific result of our having to live in a shooting gallery in Capitalvania where life is considered cheap and expendable and no loss of life too great to sacrifice on the depraved Altar of zero gun control from a depraved Far Right who live in their own warped world of hobgoblins and boogeymen hiding under their beds at night.
At present only 33% of the American public still own firearms with them being roundly rejected by the younger generations and Center Left Conservatives, Liberals, and Independents are all in agreement we have a huge gun problem in the U.S. and its about time we do something about it. This does not have to end up banning any firearms only that we make sure that the “wrong kind of people” i.e. criminals and nut cases stop having unvetted and easy access to all the firepower they want. Something inconceivable to the Far Right Paranoids who value life as cheap and expendable.
Komisar dacian’s first point begins with a legally impossibility.
“1. Registration of all weapons…”
NOPE
If Komisar dacian read and understood the firearm laws in the US, then the Komisar would realize that gun registration is never required of a criminal. Gun registration can only be required of the law abiding as proven the case of Miles Edward Haynes. The case of Haynes v. United States went all the way the USSC where a 7-1 decision found that criminals are protected under the 5th Amendment from self-incrimination from any and all gun registration requirements. The facts of the case included Justice Earl Warren being the only dissenting vote with Justice Thurgood Marshal was not present for the hearing of that case.
The ruling recognizes that Congress may regulate and tax firearms but cannot do so in a way that forces individuals to admit to criminal conduct.
Everyone posting on GAD knows these basic legal facts except Komisar dacian.
Hey dacian, why is the Komisar so clueless?
to Her Hauptmann Kane
You just cannot get it through your head that unvetted, unregistered firearms sold by private individuals with no paperwork are the main source of guns for criminals and far Right Revolutionaries who want to overthrow our Government. You know, the gang of criminals you supported on Jan 6th under the direction of Herr Drumpf who came within a hairs breath of establishing a Right Wing Jackbooted Dictatorship. Shades of 1930’s Germany and your hero the screaming, racist man with the funny little mustache.
to Komisar dacian
You probably still believe that the courts regulate firearms and that the US Constitution is a wish list for the unwashed masses. Komisar dacian is a totalitarian control freak that longs for the day when that mass murderer Stalin with the big mustache unleashed Holodomor on former Holy Russian Empire.
Wrong Kane I never said any of those things. But “You” said you supported the Jan 6th attempted take over of the U.S Government by force. That is totalitarianism. Try again you failed again.
If you live in the Democratic fiefdom of Kalifornia, you MUST now pay the Democrats to exercise a Constitutional right that the communists hate, and they despise the law-abiding citizens who wish to exercise that right, which is available and guaranteed by the United States Constitution!
As if there were not enough reasons to leave Kalifornika, you now have a bunch more. I think it would be easier to list what isn’t banned than any new rules & regulations. Just brings more truth to the statement, “when guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns”.
As if there were not enough reasons to leave Kalifornika, you now have a bunch more. I think it would be easier to list what isn’t banned than any new rules & regulations. Just brings more truth to the statement, “when guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns”.
But of course, if you are a criminal with a full auto Glock with the serial number filed off, you’re good to go. Equity and all that.
i’m sure the training will used to discourage firearm ownership.