Newsom, California legislators pledge new law to address Supreme Court gun ruling

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The state will require background checks, including with fingerprinting, as well as firearms training and a mental health assessment, Bonta said. Many of the precautions already are allowed under current law. Attorney Chuck Michel, president of the California Rifle and Pistol Association, predicted Democrats pushing the bill are"going to declare every place they think of as a 'sensitive place.'"

San Francisco Sheriff Paul Miyamoto said his office already saw a jump in applications - 22 by Thursday afternoon, compared to two pending applications submitted since the beginning of the year. Miyamoto said his office hasn't issued any permits since January 2020, when he was sworn in. "The people in San Francisco will now have the ability to go and apply for a license and actually not get rejected by a good cause statement that doesn't meet the criteria of the elected sheriff," he said, adding the ruling"will even out what happens between states that have more strict rules against states that have more normal Second Amendment federal rules that they use.

"The Sheriff recognizes the threats to the residents have increased and has responded accordingly," Medrano said.

Guns don’t kill people, people kill people. Make all the gun/ammo/clip laws you want…..Criminals will still get them, fact! School shootings etc by maybe crazy people will still happen unless they’re red flagged during background checks. There’s ways to get stuff.

Awesome! NY should have someone to follow his steps on this.

I hope they do! We would not have had this great 2A breakthrough had it not been for NY's onerous gun law. Their disregard for the Constitution is their own worst enemy. So, YES! Please write more bad legislation.

Tax bullets like we tax cigarettes but higher.

So in other words California thinks they have their own set of rules and laws. Sad!

There goes gun equity

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