AB 1639: Firearms.

Existing law prohibits the manufacture, importation, sale, or transfer of an unsafe handgun, as defined. Existing law exempts from this prohibition sales to the San Diego Unified Port District Harbor Police and the Harbor Department of the City of Los Angeles, provided the handgun will be used as a service weapon by a sworn officer who has satisfactorily completed the POST basic course and will complete a live-fire qualification at least once every 6 months. Existing law additionally prohibits a licensed firearms dealer from processing the sale or transfer of an unsafe handgun between a person who has obtained an unsafe handgun pursuant to this exemption and a person who is not exempt. Existing law makes it an infraction to leave an unsafe handgun that was obtained pursuant to this exemption in an unattended vehicle, as specified. Under existing law, these additional requirements and prohibitions do not generally apply to the sale of an unsafe handgun to a police department or sheriffs official.

This bill would make the above, training, qualification, transfer, and vehicle storage requirements inapplicable to an unsafe handgun sold to require a police officer of the San Diego Unified Port District Harbor Police or a port warden or a port police officer of the Harbor Department of the City of Los Angeles. Angeles to complete the live-fire training qualification at least twice a year instead of at least once every 6 months in order to be exempt from the prohibitions on unsafe handguns.