CA Gun Shop Owners May Soon Have to Change How They Store Their Merchandise

By Erika Haas

A new gun bill is set to land on California Governor Jerry Brown’s desk this week – and it looks like there’s a good chance it’ll be signed into law.

On Tuesday, the California legislature passed a proposal that increases storage and security requirements for firearms dealers in the hopes of preventing burglaries, reports The Daily Journal.

The bill, known as SB 464, was introduced by State Senator Jerry Hill after a constituent brought his attention to a number of burglaries up and down the state in which suspects were using cars to break into gun stores and steal weapons.

Unfortunately, this seems to be a growing trend across the country, not just in California. And, according to the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosive, gun store burglaries increased 48 percent nationwide, between 2015 and 2016.

If Hill’s bill is approved by Gov. Brown, gun shop owners will be required to implement at least one the following security measures (if one isn’t already in place) to help protect their store from these types of attacks:

• Storing firearms in a locked fireproof safe or vault on the business premises
• Storing firearms in a locked steel gun rack
• Storing firearms in …Read the Rest

  Source:: Bearing Arms