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New California Gun Laws You Need to Know!
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As of January 1st, 2020,
15 New California Gun Laws You Need to Know!
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Strengthening gun violence restraining orders

• AB 12 extends the duration of a gun violence restraining order (GVRO) to a maximum of five years.
• AB 61 allows an employer, coworker, or an employee or teacher to file a petition requesting a gun violence restraining order.
• AB 164 holds any person subject to a valid restraining order, injunction, or protective order issued out of state to the same restrictions on buying or possessing firearms in California as they are under in the state where the order or injunction is operative.
• AB 339 requires law enforcement agencies to develop and adopt written policies and standards regarding the use of gun violence restraining orders.

• AB 1493 authorizes a person who is the subject of a gun violence restraining order to petition to submit a form to the court voluntarily relinquishing their firearm rights.

Regulating firearms sales

• SB 61 prohibits the sale of a semiautomatic centerfire rifle to any person under 21 years of age, and _{applications to purchase more than one semiautomatic centerfire rifle in any 30-day period, with a few exceptions.}

• _{SB 376 prevents individuals from selling large numbers of firearms without a license by capping the number of annual sales at five transactions or 50 firearms.}

• _{AB 645 requires packaging for firearms to contain a warning statement on suicide prevention.}

• _{AB 879 requires, starting in 2024, that the sale of firearms precursor parts be conducted through a licensed firearms precursor part vendor.}

• _{AB 1669 updates existing law by applying the same gun show regulations that already apply to firearms dealers to ammunition vendors, and ensures that sufficient funding is available for firearm regulatory efforts.}

• _{AB 1297 requires any local authority issuing concealed firearm licenses to charge an applicant a fee sufficient to cover the reasonable costs of processing, issuing and enforcement of the license, and eliminates the existing $100 limit on processing fees for concealed firearm licenses.}

• _{AB 893 prohibits the sale of firearms and ammunitions at the Del Mar Fairgrounds in the County of San Diego, the City of Del Mar, the City of San Diego.}

_{Additional legislation}

• _{AB 1548 codifies the California State Nonprofit Security Grant Program to improve the physical security of nonprofit organizations that are at high risk of violent attacks or hate crimes due to ideology, beliefs, or mission.}

• _{AB 1603 codifies the California Violence Intervention and Prevention Grant Program to help reduce violence in communities that are disproportionately impacted by violence.}

• _{AB 521 requires, with the adoption of a resolution by the University of California, the UC Firearm Violence Research Center at the University of California, Davis to develop multifaceted education and training programs for medical and mental health providers on the prevention of firearm-related injury and death.}