California Penal Code

§ 14235

PEN § 14235 Effective Jan 1, 2020Title 12.2 · Part 4 · Ch. 2

Statute text

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a)California experiences unacceptably high rates of firearm-related death and injury. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 3,184 gun-related deaths in California in 2017: 1,610 suicides, 1,435 homicides, 86 deaths by legal intervention, 38 unintentional deaths, and 15 deaths of undetermined type.

(b)Mass shootings are changing the character of public life in the state. Since 1982, California has experienced 19 mass shootings, resulting in 137 total deaths. On November 11, 2018, a mass shooting at a nightclub in Thousand Oaks, California, resulted in 12 deaths.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2019, Ch. 728, Sec. 3. (AB 521) Effective January 1, 2020.