Born of a long history of gun violence, California’s pioneering assault weapons ban was enacted in 1989 after a herculean effort by lawmakers driven by outrage over a mass shooting at a Stockton elementary school.
The state law prohibits the manufacture and sale of assault weapons, but allows those who possessed guns before they were restricted to keep them as long as they register them with the state. “California is the incubator for every major gun law in the country,” said Kris Brown, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. “It’s no surprise that the federal assault weapons ban looked a lot like the California assault weapons ban.”
An original proposal had a generic definition for assault weapons but “applied to too many weapons that were popular with hunters and the sporting community,” Roos said. But Roos said Deukmejian met with the two Democratic bill authors and allowed them to make their case. Californians strongly support their gun laws, according to polls by UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies.
The state’s court brief cited 2013 data by U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that in 1993, some 5,500 Californians were killed by gunfire, but in 2010, the number had dropped by about half to 2,935 people. Klarevas’ research compared the 10 years before Congress approved the federal assault weapon ban to the 10 years it was in effect and found a 37% reduction in gun massacre incidents and a 43% reduction in gun massacre deaths.
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