SB 1332: Firearms.

Existing law requires the Attorney General to maintain a registry of all firearm owners consisting of the name, address, identification of, place of birth, complete telephone number, occupation, sex, description, and all legal names and aliases used by the owner of a particular firearm as listed on the Dealers Record of Sale or other specified reports.

Existing law establishes the Firearms Safety and Enforcement Special Fund and makes the revenue deposited into that fund available for expenditure by the department upon appropriation by the Legislature for purposes relating to the regulation of firearms.

This bill would, commencing January 1, 2019, require the Department of Justice to modify its registration form so that both spouses or both domestic partners may register as the owners of the firearm and would require the department to maintain both names on the firearms registry. The bill would additionally make the revenue in the Firearms Safety and Enforcement Special Fund available for the purpose of implementing this registration process.

Existing law also requires the Attorney General to maintain information regarding firearms from certain other reports pertaining to firearms transactions and authorizes specified officers, including peace officers, to disseminate information from specified reports if certain conditions are satisfied, including if the subject of the record has been arraigned for a crime.

This bill would additionally require the Attorney General to maintain the information supplied to the Department of Justice in certain forms submitted by persons who take possession of a firearm pursuant to a specified exception to the general requirement that firearms transactions be completed through a licensed firearms dealer and would authorize information in those forms to be disseminated pursuant to the above provisions.

Existing law requires the loan of a firearm to be conducted through a licensed firearms dealer. Existing law makes a violation of this requirement a crime.

The bill would create exceptions to the dealer requirement for a loan of a firearm in which the firearm is being stored in the receivers residence or in an enclosed structure on the receivers private property, if certain criteria are met.

This bill would incorporate changes to Section 11106 of the Penal Code proposed by both this bill and AB 857, which would become operative only if both bills are enacted and become effective on or before January 1, 2017, and this bill is chaptered last.