California moves toward allowing lawsuits over illegal guns
2 years, 9 months ago

California moves toward allowing lawsuits over illegal guns

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Hours after a deadly elementary school shooting in Texas, California senators on Tuesday approved giving people the power to sue those who traffic in illegal firearms, mimicking a Texas law that is intended to deter abortions. The California version would allow people to file civil lawsuits against anyone who distributes illegal assault weapons, parts that can be used to build weapons, guns without serial numbers, or.50 caliber rifles. The move comes in the wake of recent mass shootings, including the Texas school, a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, and elsewhere, including what police call a gang shootout that killed six people and wounded 12 people within blocks of the California state Capitol last month. The third, also by Min, would require dealers to install safeguards to deter illegal gun sales and thefts, including digital video surveillance systems.

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Supreme Court appears to lean in favor of federal ban on sale of gun kits
5 months, 1 week ago

Supreme Court appears to lean in favor of federal ban on sale of gun kits

LA Times  

The Supreme Court justices gave a friendly hearing Tuesday to the Biden administration’s regulation that prohibits the sale of easy-to-assemble firearms that can be sold online or through the mail. “Today the ghost gun industry’s fiction that its gun building kits are not firearms crashed into a brick wall of reality in the Supreme Court,” said Eric Tirschwell, executive director …

9th Circuit upholds California gun bans in some ‘sensitive’ places, but not others
6 months, 1 week ago

9th Circuit upholds California gun bans in some ‘sensitive’ places, but not others

LA Times  

A semiautomatic pistol is among several weapons displayed three years ago after being seized by the Oakland Police Department. California may enforce its recent ban on guns in “sensitive places” when it comes to parks and playgrounds, bars and restaurants that serve alcohol, casinos, stadiums, amusement parks, zoos, libraries, museums, athletic facilities and the parking areas associated with them, a …

Supreme Court turns down a 2nd Amendment challenge to state bans on assault weapons
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Supreme Court turns down a 2nd Amendment challenge to state bans on assault weapons

LA Times  

Three variations of the AR-15 assault rifle are displayed at the California Department of Justice in Sacramento. The Supreme Court on Tuesday turned down a 2nd Amendment challenge to state laws in Illinois that prohibited the sale of rapid-fire assault weapons. “For now at least, the 2nd Amendment is a second-class right, and it will remain so until the Supreme …

Will latest Supreme Court decision affect California bans on assault weapons, magazines?
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Will latest Supreme Court decision affect California bans on assault weapons, magazines?

LA Times  

Three variations of the AR-15 assault rifle are displayed at the California Department of Justice in Sacramento in 2012. A long-awaited U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding a federal law barring domestic abusers from possessing firearms will have a narrower impact than some had hoped, but it will nonetheless play an important role in reshaping gun laws in California and across …

Federal appeals court upholds California law banning gun shows at county fairs
9 months ago

Federal appeals court upholds California law banning gun shows at county fairs

Associated Press  

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld California’s ban on gun shows at county fairs and other public properties, deciding the laws do not violate the rights of firearm sellers or buyers. The first, which went into effect in January 2022, barred gun shows at the Orange County Fair, and the other, which took effect last year, …

9th Circuit says California ban on gun sales on state property is constitutional
9 months ago

9th Circuit says California ban on gun sales on state property is constitutional

LA Times  

California laws barring the sale of firearms and ammunition at fairgrounds and other state property are constitutional, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. Clifton wrote that the laws don’t violate the 1st Amendment because they “solely restrict nonexpressive conduct — contracting for the sale of firearms” and don’t violate the 2nd Amendment because they do not “meaningfully …

Opinion: Will California’s new tax on gun sales reduce firearm violence?
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Opinion: Will California’s new tax on gun sales reduce firearm violence?

LA Times  

A display of shotguns available for sale. California’s new excise tax on guns and ammunition — an 11% levy on each sale — starts in July. The new tax — an 11% levy on each sale — will come on top of federal excise taxes of 10% or 11% for firearms and California’s 6% sales tax. Using these figures, another …

California takes up White House call to toughen gun storage rules
1 year ago

California takes up White House call to toughen gun storage rules

LA Times  

California lawmakers are weighing a pitch from the White House for states to toughen gun storage rules as legislation languishes in Congress. “It’s a simple step that can save lives,” said Stefanie Feldman, director of the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention. “It’s a place where laws are often enacted when you can’t get things done at the national …

Judge rules California background check, anti-importation rules for ammo unconstitutional
1 year, 1 month ago

Judge rules California background check, anti-importation rules for ammo unconstitutional

LA Times  

A California law requiring people to submit to a background check every time they want to purchase ammunition is unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled in a decision made public Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Roger T. Benitez found state laws prohibiting California buyers from purchasing and importing ammunition from out-of-state sellers likewise violate federal law. Benitez — who in recent years …

Column: California says its new gun law is about public safety. But what about these women?
1 year, 1 month ago

Column: California says its new gun law is about public safety. But what about these women?

LA Times  

Gavin Newsom speaks about the prevalence of gun violence in society before signing Senate Bill 1327 in July 2022. The law, known as Senate Bill 2, was drafted as a workaround to a U.S. Supreme Court decision from 2022 that threw out a chunk of the state’s — and the nation’s — gun control regulations as unconstitutional, theoretically making it …

Judges put new California law barring guns in many public places on hold again
1 year, 2 months ago

Judges put new California law barring guns in many public places on hold again

LA Times  

Gavin Newsom spoke last February in support of legislation barring gun permit holders from bringing their firearms into many public places. A new California law barring licensed gun holders from carrying their firearms in many public places has once again been blocked — meaning it cannot be enforced — as legal challenges proceed in federal court. The law bars concealed-carry …

The Federal Judicial Ruling That Would Put Guns on California Playgrounds
1 year, 2 months ago

The Federal Judicial Ruling That Would Put Guns on California Playgrounds

Slate  

As troubling as the Supreme Court’s recent Second Amendment decisions have been, even they have limits. Using the new method the Supreme Court laid out for Second Amendment challenges—which requires a contemporary law to find support in America’s “historical tradition of firearms regulation”—the judge found no relevant historical analogs. Those cases, wrote the court, “describe sensitive places where carry may …

Judges let new California ban on guns in many public places take effect amid legal fight
1 year, 2 months ago

Judges let new California ban on guns in many public places take effect amid legal fight

LA Times  

Gavin Newsom speaks in 2023 during a press conference in support of Senate Bill 2, which bars concealed carry permit holders from carrying firearms in many public places in the state. A new California law barring licensed gun holders from carrying their firearms into an array of public places took effect Monday despite an ongoing legal challenge to its legitimacy. …

California law banning most firearms in public is taking effect as the legal fight over it continues
1 year, 2 months ago

California law banning most firearms in public is taking effect as the legal fight over it continues

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — A California law that bans people from carrying firearms in most public places will take effect on New Year’s Day, even as a court case continues to challenge the law. “This ruling will allow our common-sense gun laws to remain in place while we appeal the district court’s dangerous ruling,” Newsom posted to X, formerly Twitter, after …

Battle over California’s ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines shows a nation divided
1 year, 2 months ago

Battle over California’s ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines shows a nation divided

LA Times  

Dozens of states are taking sides in the court fight over California’s effort to ban high-capacity ammunition magazines. Late last month, a coalition of 19 U.S. states and the District of Columbia came together to support California’s ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines. That is what happened with the two state coalitions in the case on California’s high-capacity magazine ban — …

Things to know about a federal judge’s ruling temporarily blocking California’s gun law
1 year, 2 months ago

Things to know about a federal judge’s ruling temporarily blocking California’s gun law

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Democrats running California’s government have passed some of the strictest gun laws in the country, but those efforts to restrict firearm access are increasingly facing successful challenges in court. They’ve gotten a recent boost from the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, which set a new standard for …

Federal judge blocks California law that would have banned carrying firearms in most public places
1 year, 2 months ago

Federal judge blocks California law that would have banned carrying firearms in most public places

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — A federal judge on Wednesday blocked a California law that would have banned carrying firearms in most public places, ruling that it violates the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and deprives people of their ability to defend themselves and their loved ones. That decision said the constitutionality of gun laws must be assessed by whether they …

Federal judge blocks California law that would bar guns in many public places
1 year, 2 months ago

Federal judge blocks California law that would bar guns in many public places

LA Times  

A new California law that would bar licensed gun holders from carrying their firearms into an array of public places will not go into full effect on Jan. 1 as scheduled, after a federal judge blocked major parts of it as unconstitutional Wednesday. The law, Senate Bill 2, was part of a slate of new gun control measures passed this …

9th Circuit stays ruling against California ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines
1 year, 5 months ago

9th Circuit stays ruling against California ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines

LA Times  

The American debate over the legality of modern gun laws was again on display this week in the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, where a panel of 11 judges hit pause on a decision overturning California’s ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines. The court’s liberal majority found that the state of California had made “strong arguments” for why the ban …

Newsom signs gun laws that add new taxes and limit where owners can carry firearms
1 year, 5 months ago

Newsom signs gun laws that add new taxes and limit where owners can carry firearms

LA Times  

Gavin Newsom shakes hands Tuesday with Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel after signing Gabriel’s bill that raises taxes on guns and ammunition. Gavin Newsom signed several gun control measures Tuesday, including a bill that tightens the state’s concealed-carry rules and another that imposes a new tax on firearm and ammunition sales. “I think we need to be screaming louder about this.” “I’m …

Column: California Democrats misfired by passing proposed tax on guns and ammo
1 year, 5 months ago

Column: California Democrats misfired by passing proposed tax on guns and ammo

LA Times  

Jack Brandhorst is owner of Red Rifle Ltd., a boutique gun store in Carson. “You need a water bottle and orange slices.” Another miss: Legislative adoption of Newsom’s resolution calling for a constitutional convention to adopt a 28th Amendment mandating new federal gun controls. There’d be $75 million for local gun violence prevention programs and $50 million for school safety, …

Federal judge again strikes down California law banning gun magazines of more than 10 rounds
1 year, 5 months ago

Federal judge again strikes down California law banning gun magazines of more than 10 rounds

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California cannot ban gun owners from having detachable magazines that hold more than 10 rounds, a federal judge ruled Friday. Benitez ruled that “there is no American tradition of limiting ammunition capacity.” He said detachable magazines “solved a problem with historic firearms: running out of ammunition and having to slowly reload a gun.” “There have been, and …

9th Circuit rules California ban on marketing guns to minors is probably unconstitutional
1 year, 6 months ago

9th Circuit rules California ban on marketing guns to minors is probably unconstitutional

LA Times  

California’s law banning the marketing of firearms to minors is probably unconstitutional under the 1st Amendment, a federal appellate court ruled Wednesday. Writing for a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, Circuit Judge Kenneth K. Lee wrote that while the ban may be intended to diminish gun violence, the “First Amendment demands more than good …

California lawmakers approve new tax for guns and ammunition to pay for school safety improvements
1 year, 6 months ago

California lawmakers approve new tax for guns and ammunition to pay for school safety improvements

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy California lawmakers on Thursday voted …

California Democrats approve new taxes on gun and ammunition dealers and manufacturers
1 year, 6 months ago

California Democrats approve new taxes on gun and ammunition dealers and manufacturers

LA Times  

California lawmakers approved legislation on Thursday to impose a new tax on firearms and ammunition sales to help finance gun-violence prevention and education programs, a victory for Democrats after years of failing to pass similar measures. And after several mass shootings in schools across the country and two high-profile massacres in Half Moon Bay and Monterey Park this year sparked …

Gun control laws in California and beyond in peril as Supreme Court expands 2nd Amendment
1 year, 7 months ago

Gun control laws in California and beyond in peril as Supreme Court expands 2nd Amendment

LA Times  

It wasn’t until 2008 that the Supreme Court for the first time struck down a gun control law, ruling the 2nd Amendment protected the “right of law-abiding, responsible citizens” to keep a handgun at home for self-defense. VIDEO | 04:47 Gun control laws in California may be challenged as Supreme Court expands the 2nd Amendment An opinion by Supreme Court …

Column: California proves that stricter gun laws save lives
1 year, 9 months ago

Column: California proves that stricter gun laws save lives

LA Times  

Students call for tougher gun control laws during a rally at Miguel Contreras Learning Complex in Los Angeles on March 14, 2018. Mississippi gets an “F” from Giffords: It “has the weakest gun laws in the country and the highest gun death rate.” That’s backed up by the National Center for Health Statistics. Unless I’m missing something, the fact that …

New Washington gun law already faces federal court challenge
1 year, 10 months ago

New Washington gun law already faces federal court challenge

Associated Press  

OLYMPIA Wash. — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signed a trio of bills meant to address gun violence Tuesday, one banning the sale of certain semi-automatic rifles, one imposing a 10-day waiting period on firearms purchases and one clearing the way for lawsuits against gun makers or sellers in certain cases. “Inaction against gun violence is unacceptable.” White House press secretary …

New California gun proposals follow Lunar New Year shooting
1 year, 10 months ago

New California gun proposals follow Lunar New Year shooting

Associated Press  

MONTEREY PARK, Calif. — California officials gathered Monday in Monterey Park and proposed three new laws aimed at preventing more gun violence, three months after a mass shooting in the city killed 11 people and wounded nine at a Lunar New Year dance. The proposal, drafted by Democratic state Assemblymember Mike Fong and The second measure would prevent law enforcement …

Thanks to the Supreme Court, California gun cases hinge more on history than modern threats
2 years ago

Thanks to the Supreme Court, California gun cases hinge more on history than modern threats

LA Times  

Police crime photos of assault rifles and handguns are displayed during a news conference near the site of a mass shooting in San Bernardino in 2015. “Instead of having a reasonable debate over whether a ban on assault weapons is good policy or not, we have to debate whether a ban on assault weapons has historical antecedents.” UC Berkeley Law …

States look to remove legal protections for gun industry
2 years ago

States look to remove legal protections for gun industry

Associated Press  

DENVER — Mass shootings in America invariably raise questions of fault. While the firearm industry is still largely shielded from liability under federal law, the bill in Colorado would make it easier for victims of gun violence to file civil suits, such as the one lodged against Remington in 2015 — the company that made the rifle used in the …

California bill would ban game-style events like lotteries and raffles at gun stores
2 years, 1 month ago

California bill would ban game-style events like lotteries and raffles at gun stores

LA Times  

Customers line up outside Gun World in Burbank in 2020. A California bill would ban lotteries, raffles and other promotional events at gun stores. Adding to the growing list of gun control measures California Democrats have unveiled in recent weeks, a new bill being announced Thursday would ban firearms dealers from holding game-style promotional events such as giveaways, lotteries and …

California Democrats try again to rewrite concealed-carry gun law
2 years, 1 month ago

California Democrats try again to rewrite concealed-carry gun law

LA Times  

Gavin Newsom speaks about the prevalence of gun violence before signing Senate Bill 1327, gun legislation modeled after Texas abortion ban, into law at Santa Monica College in July. Gavin Newsom and a coalition of top Democrats quickly got behind a bill last year that they said would comply with the Supreme Court decision barring states from making people show …

Mass shootings lead to widening divide on state gun policies
2 years, 1 month ago

Mass shootings lead to widening divide on state gun policies

Associated Press  

— Mass shootings have commanded public attention on a disturbingly frequent basis across the U.S., from a supermarket slaying in Buffalo, New York, to an elementary school tragedy in Uvalde, Texas, to a recent shooting at a California dance hall. Rather than provoking a unified response from elected officials, each additional shooting seems to be widening the political divide among …

California already has nation’s strictest gun laws. Mass shootings could spur push to go further
2 years, 1 month ago

California already has nation’s strictest gun laws. Mass shootings could spur push to go further

LA Times  

Law enforcement officials on Sunday secure and investigate the scene where a gunman opened fire at a ballroom dance studio in Monterey Park. After a deadly wave of mass shootings in the United States last year — including one in Buffalo, N.Y., and another at a school in Uvalde, Texas — that collectively killed 31, California’s Democratic-controlled Legislature responded by …

California mass shooting: Gun laws in the state are stricter than in the rest of US, but are they enough?
2 years, 1 month ago

California mass shooting: Gun laws in the state are stricter than in the rest of US, but are they enough?

Firstpost  

America once again saw a mass shooting on Sunday during Lunar New Year celebrations in California’s Monterey Park, a majority Asian-American city on the eastern edge of Los Angeles. While there is still much we don’t know about the motive in this senseless attack, we do know that many families are grieving tonight, or praying that their loved one will …

Californians have a green light to sue the gun industry. How will that work?
2 years, 2 months ago

Californians have a green light to sue the gun industry. How will that work?

LA Times  

ATF agents and Escondido police officers seized 113 guns, many of them “ghost guns,” during an 18-month investigation into Escondido street gangs that concluded in October 2022. On Dec. 19, U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez in San Diego nixed one part of SB 1327 on constitutional grounds: the “fee-shifting” provision that would have saddled gun-industry litigants with all or part …

Judge to halt provision making California gun suits costlier
2 years, 3 months ago

Judge to halt provision making California gun suits costlier

LA Times  

A federal judge on Friday said he will block a provision in a new California law to take effect next year that gun advocates argued was designed to hinder anyone from challenging the state’s famously restrictive gun laws. U.S. District Judge Roger T. Benitez said he would issue the injunction requested by gun clubs as soon as possible to halt …

California gun bill fails on tactical error in Legislature
2 years, 6 months ago

California gun bill fails on tactical error in Legislature

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gun-control advocates could have had another victory in their very successful California legislative session that ended Thursday if not for a risky move supported by Gov. Bonta, who was appointed attorney general by Newsom, was personally working the concealed weapons bill in the Capitol until the end, while Newsom was involved “significantly” in pushing for its passage, …

California lawmakers reject new firearms tax for 2nd year
2 years, 6 months ago

California lawmakers reject new firearms tax for 2nd year

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers for the second year rejected a new tax on gun sales Wednesday, despite their passage of numerous other gun control measures this year. Levine’s similar legislation died in the Assembly Appropriations Committee in 2019 despite support from a half-dozen California mayors including those in Oakland, San Francisco and San Jose, and several groups that support …

Bill to strengthen concealed-carry gun restrictions dies in California Legislature
2 years, 6 months ago

Bill to strengthen concealed-carry gun restrictions dies in California Legislature

LA Times  

Hundreds rally against gun violence at a March for Our Lives event in downtown Los Angeles in June. For the record: An earlier version of this story characterized New York’s concealed-carry gun law as “shall issue.” It was a “may-issue” law, which gives broad authority to local licensing officials to reject concealed-carry applications. vs. Bruen case that “may-issue” laws — …

Attempt to strengthen California’s concealed-carry gun law lacks support from lawmakers
2 years, 6 months ago

Attempt to strengthen California’s concealed-carry gun law lacks support from lawmakers

LA Times  

A proposal to strengthen California’s concealed-carry law in response to a Supreme Court decision expanding rights to carry firearms in public failed in the Assembly on Tuesday despite backing from Gov. Rob Bonta for months this year on Senate Bill 918, a contingency plan to keep in place a robust concealed-carry law in California after the Supreme Court in June …

California governor signs gun control law that mimics controversial Texas anti-abortion ‘bounty’ law
2 years, 7 months ago

California governor signs gun control law that mimics controversial Texas anti-abortion ‘bounty’ law

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The governor of California …

New California gun control law mimics Texas abortion measure
2 years, 7 months ago

New California gun control law mimics Texas abortion measure

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California punched back Friday against two recent landmark U.S. Supreme Court decisions as Gov. The Supreme Court’s support for the Texas law was “a terrible decision,” Newsom said. However, “if they’re going to use this framework to put women’s lives at risk, we’re going to use it to save people’s lives here in the state of California.” …

Gavin Newsom signs California gun bill modeled after Texas abortion law
2 years, 7 months ago

Gavin Newsom signs California gun bill modeled after Texas abortion law

CNN  

CNN — California Gov. The US Supreme Court in December allowed Texas’ six-week abortion ban to remain in effect, which prompted Newsom, who has been supportive of abortion rights and pro-gun control, to say he was “outraged” by the court’s decision and direct his staff to draft a similar bill to regulate guns. The law, introduced in February, says that …

War on California gun laws revs up after Supreme Court’s ‘right to carry’ decision
2 years, 7 months ago

War on California gun laws revs up after Supreme Court’s ‘right to carry’ decision

LA Times  

A sales associate takes a close look at handguns for sale at Burbank Ammo & Guns in Burbank on June 23, 2022. In New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. vs. Bruen, the Supreme Court not only ruled that broad limits against people carrying firearms in states like New York and California were unconstitutional, but that other restrictions on …

California opens the door to suing gun makers. Here’s what the new law does
2 years, 8 months ago

California opens the door to suing gun makers. Here’s what the new law does

LA Times  

Three weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down tough state controls on concealed weapon licenses, California Gov. How the law would be enforced AB 1594 is designed to be enforced through lawsuits — not just by the state attorney general but also by attorneys for city and county governments and by anyone “who has suffered harm as a result …

California blocks gun sales to those at risk of breaking law
2 years, 8 months ago

California blocks gun sales to those at risk of breaking law

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gun makers and dealers in California will be required to block firearms sales to anyone they have “reasonable cause to believe is at substantial risk” of using a gun illegally or of harming themselves or others, under a new law that Gov. The new law, the group said, “seeks to frustrate law-abiding gun owners” with the goal …

California enacts sweeping gun control laws, setting up a legal showdown
2 years, 8 months ago

California enacts sweeping gun control laws, setting up a legal showdown

LA Times  

Less than a month after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against restrictions on carrying firearms in public in a substantial victory for 2nd Amendment advocates, California Gov. I think it’s important to adopt the laws and then see where the court is going to draw the line.” Eugene Volokh, a UCLA School of Law professor, said the Supreme Court’s decision …

California takes aim at Supreme Court’s concealed gun ruling
2 years, 8 months ago

California takes aim at Supreme Court’s concealed gun ruling

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Days after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed more people to carry concealed weapons, California lawmakers on Tuesday moved to limit where firearms may be carried and who can have them, while struggling to stay within the high court’s ruling. “This amendment is not improving California’s concealed carry laws — it’s in defiance of this court opinion,” said …

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