December 2024 Legislation/Litigation Update December Focus: Laws taking effect January 1, 2025 Private Party Transfers are no longer exempt from the “1 in 30 days” limit. However, this regulatory limit has been enjoined by a federal court and is not currently being enforced. See Nguyen v Bonta in Litigation, below. State Licensed Firearms Dealers will…

November 2024 Legislation/Litigation Update Litigation The California Legislature and US Congress are not in session. B&L Productions v Newsom In a combined case dealing with gun shows on state property, including fairgrounds, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has lifted the injunction that allowed gun shows to continue on state property until the case is…

October 2024 Legislation/Litigation Update October Focus Ammunition Purchase Fee increase proposed As authorized by Penal Code section 30370, subdivision (e), the Department’s current regulations established a $1.00 fee for a Standard Ammunition Eligibility Check (SAEC) and $1.00 fee for a COE Verification check. (Cal. Code Regs., tit. 11, §§ 4282, 4285.) This fee has not…

September 2024 Legislation/Litigation Update September Focus Ammunition Purchase Fee increase proposed As authorized by Penal Code section 30370, subdivision (e), the Department’s current regulations established a $1.00 fee for a Standard Ammunition Eligibility Check (SAEC) and $1.00 fee for a COE Verification check. (Cal. Code Regs., tit. 11, §§ 4282, 4285.) This fee has not…

August 2024 Legislation/Litigation Update August Focus U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Representative Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) today introduced the Freedom from Unfair Gun Taxes Act. This bill would prohibit states from implementing excise taxes on firearms and ammunition to fund gun control programs. As of July 1, 2024, California implemented a new 10-11% excise tax…

Click here to download July report. June 2024 Legislation/Litigation Update July Focus Jaymes v. Maduros is a new lawsuit challenging the 11% excise tax imposed by AB28. The Firearm Policy Coalition, the California Rifle and Pistol Association, and the National Rifle Association are backing the suit, saying the tax on firearms and ammunition is an…

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ATF Rule 2022R-17 goes active on Monday, May 20, 2024. Anyone selling firearms needs to understand this new Rule. ATF’s New Rule on what it means to be “engaged in the business of firearms dealing” begins next week. Are you ready? Washington Gun Law President, William Kirk, discusses the implementation of ATF Rule 2022R-17, which…

May 2024 Legislation/Litigation Update May Focus On April 10, 2024, the U.S. Attorney General, Merrick Garland, signed ATF’s final rule 2022R-09 “Bipartisan Safer Communities Act Conforming Regulations. The regulatory definition of “Engaged in the Business” as a Dealer in Firearms is changing, amending ATF’s regulations in title 27, Code of Federal Regulations (“CFR”), part 478. The final rule implements…

April 2024 Legislation/Litigation Update April Focus California Department of Justice has proposed substantial changes to the CCW “Emergency Regulations” for DOJ Certification of CCW instructors. After receiving more than 2,000 comments regarding the new requirements to apply for certification, most expressing concern that the regulations were too restrictive, the DOJ has proposed adding additional acceptable…

March 2024 Legislation/Litigation Update March Focus Nguyen v Bonta, is a challenge to California’s one gun per thirty days purchase rationing. Judge William Q. Hayes of the US district court for California’s southern district granted the plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment, declaring the one in thirty limit unconstitutional. The order is still to be drafted…

February 2024 Legislation/Litigation Update February Focus Rhode v Bonta challenges the Prop 63 rules on ammunition purchases. Judge Roger Benitez has ruled background checks to purchase ammunition is unconstitutional. This is Judge Benitez’s final ruling and grants a permanent injunction against enforcing the ammunition background checks in Penal Code sections 30352 and 30370(a) through (e)….