Posted October 1, 2018 9:30 am by Comments

By Chris Eger

Brown, set to leave the California governor’s mansion in 2019, approved a number of gun control measures last month while rejecting others. (Photo: Brown’s Office)
Gov. Jerry Brown acted on a host of gun control proposals last week, tightening California’s firearm laws in significant ways. The Democrat on Friday signed bills to bar those aged 18-to-20 from buying firearms, expand gun seizure order laws and implement a variety of new lifetime bans on gun ownership. Brown also vetoed bills that would have banned gun shows at a state-owned facility, rationed shotgun and rifle sales to one gun a month, and cut out gun retailers from “buyback” programs.
The most contentious of the measures, SB 1100, bars firearm sales to those under 21 years of age. The move is similar to laws passed in Florida and Vermont this year, both of which have been challenged in court. A fiscal analysis of the measure estimates California would lose out on $2.2 million per year in mandatory dealer fees due to the decreased number of gun sales resulting from the proposed new laws. Nonetheless, the Assembly approved it 47-30 in August setting up a 26-12 Senate concurrence.
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Source: Guns.com

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