Bills to increase regulations on California gun stores heads to governor
By Chris Eger
Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat, is set to decide on a pair of bills changing how California’s more than 3,000 FFL’s do business. (Photo: Gov. Brown’s office)
Measures aimed at the state’s licensed gun dealers have passed the California Legislature and are headed to the governor’s desk.
The proposals — SB 464 and AB 1525 — would up storage and security guidelines while ordering a change in mandatory warnings dealers must provide with firearm purchases.
State Sen. Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo, sponsor of SB 464, argued the increase in security is needed following incidents where burglars used cars to smash into gun stores in Ceres, Elk Grove, Folsom, Petaluma, Rocklin, San Carlos, Sunnyvale, and Ventura.
Hill’s measure requires gun stores to keep their firearms in a secure facility with steel bars on windows, deadbolted doors or metal grates over entrances, and an alarm system protecting ventilation. Additional security such as steel roll down doors, locking polycarbonate gun cases, displays that utilize steel rods inserted through trigger guards or concrete bollards in front of the store are also on a list of requirements store owners must use to protect their guns when the store in closed.
Some store owners are not impressed. “All this is doing
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