Firearms: dealer centralized list.
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Overview
This bill updates California’s system for tracking licensed firearms dealers. It requires the Department of Justice to maintain a centralized list and remove dealers who fail to comply with regulations or don’t remedy violations discovered during inspections. The bill also mandates more frequent inspections of dealers with high rates of illegally possessed firearms and limits fee increases to 15% annually. Dealers found in violation may face fines and be ineligible for licensure for two years.
Key provisions
- Requires the Department of Justice to maintain a centralized list of firearms dealers.
- Mandates more frequent inspections (at least every three years) of dealers, with increased scrutiny for dealers with high rates of illegally possessed firearms.
- Allows the Department to remove dealers from the list for non-compliance or failure to remedy violations.
- Imposes fines and a two-year ineligibility for dealers removed for failing to remedy violations.
- Limits annual fee increases to 15% over the previous year.
- Requires the Department to conduct a yearly inspection of the 10 firearm dealer locations with the highest percentage of firearms recovered illegally.
- Prohibits a fee adjustment from exceeding the amount necessary to cover the costs described above.
- Establishes a process for law enforcement to request information from the list for verification purposes.
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