California: Multiple Anti-Gun Bills Scheduled in Committee

On Tuesday, June 16th, the Senate Public Safety Committee will hear several anti-Second Amendment bills, including AB1743, AB1753, and AB1810. Additionally, on June 23rd, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hear AB 2047, a proposal that effectively converts every 3-D printer into a device subject to government oversight.

Please use the Take Action button below to contact the committees and urge their opposition to these proposals. 

Senate Public Safety - June 16

Assembly Bill 1743 expands the state’s firearm owner data-sharing framework by increasing access to information maintained in California’s Automated Firearms System and related databases. Expanding this system raises significant concerns given California’s track record of protecting firearm owner data. In 2022, the California Department of Justice exposed the personal information of thousands of firearm owners and concealed carry permit holders in a widely reported data breach.

Assembly Bill 1753 “clarifies” California’s Gun Violence Restraining Order (GVRO) violation framework by explicitly subjecting ammunition possession to the same hearing and enforcement procedures currently applied to firearms. Red flag laws have repeatedly stripped law-abiding citizens of their Second Amendment rights while undermining basic due process protections. Existing red flag laws in California should not be expanded under the guise of “clarification,” but repealed.

Assembly Bill 1810 significantly tightens the state's oversight of licensed firearms dealers by expanding the Department of Justice's authority to remove dealers from the state's centralized list. The bill creates mandatory removal for dealers who fail to meet licensure requirements and discretionary removal for those who fail to remedy inspection violations within 90 days.

These removals carry a two-year ban on owning, operating, or even working for any firearms dealer or ammunition vendor in California. It also requires DOJ to conduct annual targeted inspections of the 10 dealer locations with the highest percentages of crime gun traces under one year. AB1810 is a thinly veiled attempt to legislate licensed firearms dealers out of existence in California, using bureaucratic technicalities and guilt-by-geography crime statistics to strip law-abiding FFLs of their livelihoods. 

Senate Judiciary - June 23 

Assembly Bill 2047 prohibits the sale or transfer of 3-dimensional printers unless equipped with so-called "firearm blocking technology”, now amended to read “firearm blueprint detection algorithms”, designed to detect and prevent the printing of known firearm blueprint designs. Further, AB 2047 mandates that all certified manufactures of 3-D printers be listed on the California Department of Justice's website and creates a criminal offense for knowingly facilitating the circumvention of firearm blocking technology. This sweeping regulation that presents both First and Second Amendment concerns, also requires manufactures to submit models for state approval and certification.

Stay tuned to your inbox and www.nraila.org for further updates, as your NRA continues to fight for your Second Amendment rights in Sacramento.