BILL NUMBER: AB 180	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 19, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bonta

                        JANUARY 24, 2013

   An act  relating to ammunition   to amend
Section 53071 of the Government Code, relating to local government
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	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 180, as amended, Bonta.  Ammunition.  
Registration and licensing of firearms: exclusive regulation by the
Legislature.  
   Existing law states the intention of the Legislature to occupy the
whole field of regulation of registration or licensing of
commercially manufactured firearms as encompassed by the Penal Code
to the exclusion of all local regulations.  
   This bill would provide an exception to those provisions by
authorizing the City of Oakland to enact and enforce an ordinance or
regulation that is more restrictive than state law regulating the
registration or licensing of commercially manufactured firearms as
encompassed by the Penal Code.  
   Existing law prohibits a handgun ammunition vendor, as defined,
from selling, offering for sale, or displaying for sale, any handgun
ammunition in a manner that allows that ammunition to be accessible
to a purchaser without the assistance of the vendor or employee
thereof. Existing law requires, subject to exceptions, that handgun
ammunition vendors obtain a thumbprint and other information from
ammunition purchasers, as specified.  
   This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would establish a tax on all ammunition sold in
retail stores and gun shows in the state and direct tax revenue to a
fund to prevent crime in high-crime areas of the state. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   SECTION 1.    Section 53071 of the  
Government Code   is amended to read: 
   53071.   (a)    It is the intention of the
Legislature to occupy the whole field of regulation of the
registration or licensing of commercially manufactured firearms as
encompassed by the provisions of the Penal Code, and such provisions
shall be exclusive of all local regulations, relating to registration
or licensing of commercially manufactured firearms, by any political
subdivision as defined in Section 1721 of the Labor Code. 
   (b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), the City of Oakland may enact
and enforce an ordinance or regulation that is more restrictive than
state law regulating the registration or licensing of commercially
manufactured firearms as encompassed by the Penal Code. 

  SECTION 1.    It is the intent of the Legislature
to enact legislation that would establish a tax on all ammunition
sold in retail stores and gun shows in the state and direct the
revenue from the tax to a high-crime prevention fund for crime
prevention efforts in high-crime areas of the state.