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The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the trade association for America's firearms industry, is encouraging all gun owners, sportsmen and firearms enthusiasts to contact members of the California Assembly Public Safety Committee today and urge them to oppose SB 798 (De Leon). NSSF has learned that this bill is being amended and brought up for reconsideration next Tuesday (July 5).
Since this is a reconsideration hearing, State Sen. Kevin DeLeon will be allowed to present amendments to SB 798, but there will be no public support or opposition testimony allowed.
The amendments will completely void all language in the current bill and will include a repeal of the existing state preemption ordinance which regulates imitation firearms including airsoft guns, paintball guns, BB guns and pellet guns (Government Code Section 53071.5). If state preemption, which forbids localities from passing their own gun control measures, is over-ridden here, the door will be open for municipalities across the state to write their own gun control ordinances affecting ALL types of firearms. This would create criminals out of law-abiding citizens for merely turning down the 'wrong' street and crossing over a city border. Furthermore, by enacting such laws, cities would be able to apply business-killing regulations on lawful firearms retailers.
State preemption laws mandate equal treatment of all state residents. These preemption laws must stay intact in order to provide uniform statewide firearms laws and prevent municipalities from creating a patchwork of different firearms-related ordinances.
Please, take a few minutes and call the following committee members today! Tell them to oppose SB 798!
Committee Members District Phone E-mail
Tom Ammiano - Chair
Dem-13 (916) 319-2013 Assemblymember.Ammiano@assembly.ca.gov
Steve Knight - Vice Chair
Rep-36 (916) 319-2036 Assemblymember.Knight@assembly.ca.gov
Gilbert Cedillo
Dem-45 (916) 319-2045 Assemblymember.Cedillo@assembly.ca.gov
Curt Hagman
Rep-60 (916) 319-2060 Assemblymember.Hagman@assembly.ca.gov
Jerry Hill
Dem-19 (916) 319-2019 Assemblymember.Hill@assembly.ca.gov
Holly J. Mitchell
Dem-47 (916) 319-2047 Assemblymember.Mitchell@assembly.ca.gov
Nancy Skinner
Dem-14 (916) 319-2014 Assemblymember.Skinner@assembly.ca.gov
Since this is a reconsideration hearing, State Sen. Kevin DeLeon will be allowed to present amendments to SB 798, but there will be no public support or opposition testimony allowed.
The amendments will completely void all language in the current bill and will include a repeal of the existing state preemption ordinance which regulates imitation firearms including airsoft guns, paintball guns, BB guns and pellet guns (Government Code Section 53071.5). If state preemption, which forbids localities from passing their own gun control measures, is over-ridden here, the door will be open for municipalities across the state to write their own gun control ordinances affecting ALL types of firearms. This would create criminals out of law-abiding citizens for merely turning down the 'wrong' street and crossing over a city border. Furthermore, by enacting such laws, cities would be able to apply business-killing regulations on lawful firearms retailers.
State preemption laws mandate equal treatment of all state residents. These preemption laws must stay intact in order to provide uniform statewide firearms laws and prevent municipalities from creating a patchwork of different firearms-related ordinances.
Please, take a few minutes and call the following committee members today! Tell them to oppose SB 798!
Committee Members District Phone E-mail
Tom Ammiano - Chair
Dem-13 (916) 319-2013 Assemblymember.Ammiano@assembly.ca.gov
Steve Knight - Vice Chair
Rep-36 (916) 319-2036 Assemblymember.Knight@assembly.ca.gov
Gilbert Cedillo
Dem-45 (916) 319-2045 Assemblymember.Cedillo@assembly.ca.gov
Curt Hagman
Rep-60 (916) 319-2060 Assemblymember.Hagman@assembly.ca.gov
Jerry Hill
Dem-19 (916) 319-2019 Assemblymember.Hill@assembly.ca.gov
Holly J. Mitchell
Dem-47 (916) 319-2047 Assemblymember.Mitchell@assembly.ca.gov
Nancy Skinner
Dem-14 (916) 319-2014 Assemblymember.Skinner@assembly.ca.gov
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