AB 1192: Firearms: retired peace officers.

Existing law defines honorably retired for purposes of certain exceptions to the law involving the carrying of firearms by a retired peace officer.

The existing Safety For All Act of 2016, approved as an initiative statute at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election, makes it a crime for a person, commencing July 1, 2017, to possess a large-capacity magazine. Proposition 63 exempts from that prohibition the possession of a large-capacity magazine by honorably retired sworn peace officers. The existing act authorizes the Legislature to amend its provisions by statute approved by a 55% vote of each house if the amendments are consistent with, and further the intent of, the initiative statute.

This bill would amend that act by redefining the definition of honorably retired to include a retired reserve officer who has met specified length of service requirements.