BILL NUMBER: AB 892	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Achadjian

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2015

   An act to amend Section 32000 of the Penal Code, relating to
firearms.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 892, as introduced, Achadjian. Unsafe handguns: peace officer's
state-issued handguns: transfer to spouse.
   Existing law makes it a crime for any person in this state to
manufacture, import into the state, keep for sale, offer or expose
for sale, give, or lend any unsafe handgun. Existing law allows the
spouse or domestic partner of a peace officer who died in the line of
duty to buy his or her state-issued handgun.
   This bill would exempt from that prohibition the purchase of a
state-issued handgun by the spouse or domestic partner of a peace
officer who died in the line of duty.
   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 32000 of the Penal Code is amended to read:
   32000.  (a)  Commencing January 1, 2001, any 
 A  person in this state who manufactures or causes to be
manufactured, imports into the state for sale, keeps for sale, offers
or exposes for sale, gives, or lends  any   an
 unsafe handgun shall be punished by imprisonment in a county
jail not exceeding one year.
   (b) This section shall not apply to any of the following:
   (1) The manufacture in this state, or importation into this state,
of a prototype handgun when the manufacture or importation is for
the sole purpose of allowing an independent laboratory certified by
the Department of Justice pursuant to Section 32010 to conduct an
independent test to determine whether that handgun is prohibited by
Sections 31900 to 32110, inclusive, and, if not, allowing the
department to add the firearm to the roster of handguns that may be
sold in this state pursuant to Section 32015.
   (2) The importation or lending of a handgun by employees or
authorized agents of entities determining whether the weapon is
prohibited by this section.
   (3) Firearms listed as curios or relics, as defined in Section
478.11 of Title 27 of the Code of Federal Regulations.
   (4) The sale or purchase of a handgun, if the handgun is sold to,
or purchased by, the Department of Justice, a police department, a
sheriff's official, a marshal's office, the Department of Corrections
and Rehabilitation, the California Highway Patrol, any district
attorney's office, any federal law enforcement agency, or the
military or naval forces of this state or of the United States for
use in the discharge of their official duties. This section does not
prohibit the sale to, or purchase by, sworn members of these agencies
of a handgun. 
   (5) The sale, purchase, or delivery of a handgun, if the sale,
purchase, or delivery of the handgun is made pursuant to subdivision
(d) of Section 10334 of the Public Contract Code. 
   (c) Violations of subdivision (a) are cumulative with respect to
each handgun and shall not be construed as restricting the
application of any other law. However, an act or omission punishable
in different ways by this section and other provisions of law shall
not be punished under more than one provision, but the penalty to be
imposed shall be determined as set forth in Section 654.