SACRAMENTO: The Second Amendment is facing a new attack in Sacramento. Assemblyman Michael Gipson from Carson (D-64) introduced a bill to authorize the Department of Justice (DOJ) to issue “firearm precursor” parts vendor licenses. The bill would also require any person purchasing a “precursor” part to go undergo a background check.
Under AB 2382 a “firearm precursor part” is a newly invented term that classifies hunks or sheets of metal as firearms. It also categorizes anything that goes into a firearm as a firearm.
The proposed bill that passed the Assembly Public Safety Committee would create an entire new class of highly regulated items including barrels, ammunition feeding devices that include magazines for semi-automatic firearms and speed loaders for revolvers, unfinished receivers, molded or shaped polymer frames or receivers, metallic castings, forging, receiver flats, Browning style receiver plates, Kalashnikov style receiver channels, finished upper receivers for AR-15 and AR 10 style firearms, unfinished handguns, finished slides that are used to enclose handgun barrels and trigger pack or fire control packs for Heckler and Koch or FN FAL style firearms.
In addition to the long list of items that fall under the term “firearm precursor part” are additional restrictions on who can carry these items and where they can and can not carry the parts. The bill also lists the lists the criminal penalties and age restrictions.
The bill creates a long list of new midemeanors or felonies citizens can face who are trying to excercise their second amendment right.
Gipson’s bill is now on its way to the Appropriations Committee.
The bill can be read in detail by clicking on the following link: http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml
To oppose the bill follow this link: https://www.firearmspolicy.org/oppose_ab_2382