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California Senate approves measures aimed at reducing gun violence (LA Times)
SACRAMENTO --The state Senate approved two bills Thursday introduced following the mass killing at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, including one requiring gun owners to keep their firearms in locked safe-boxes if they live with someone prohibited from using guns.
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SB 363 provides for up to three years in jail and a fine up to $10,000 if someone is convicted of allowing access to guns to a person prohibited by state law from possessing firearms, and if those firearms are used in cases where death or great bodily injury occur.
The measure was opposed by the California Attorneys for Criminal Justice, which argued many citizens have firearms in their homes for protection “and that having these firearms always locked up or with trigger locks because there may be a prohibited person in the house defeats this purpose.”
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SB 363 provides for up to three years in jail and a fine up to $10,000 if someone is convicted of allowing access to guns to a person prohibited by state law from possessing firearms, and if those firearms are used in cases where death or great bodily injury occur.
The measure was opposed by the California Attorneys for Criminal Justice, which argued many citizens have firearms in their homes for protection “and that having these firearms always locked up or with trigger locks because there may be a prohibited person in the house defeats this purpose.”
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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/political/la-me-pc-gun-violence-20130516,0,4993456.story
SB 363 text
As I read it, it seems that our state law already defines 'criminal storage' as allowing access to a child and that access occurs and injury results. This bill expands the existing law to include prohibited persons as well as children, plus defines an additional crime of unsafe storage even if the access and injury don't occur. (That latter part makes more sense to me than the existing law, in a way: it's always seemed strange when a crime only becomes a crime due to the outcome...)
(This is just a Senate bill so far; it would still need to pass the Assembly and the Governor.)
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