BILL NUMBER: SB 1456	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Nielsen

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to amend Section 30625 of the Penal Code, relating to
firearms.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1456, as introduced, Nielsen. Firearms: Assault weapons and .50
BMG rifles: exemptions.
   Existing law generally makes it a crime to possess, manufacture,
distribute, transport, import for sale, keep for sale, offer or
expose for sale, or give or lend any assault weapon or .50 BMG rifle.
Under existing law, these prohibitions on assault weapons and .50
BMG rifles do not apply to the sale to, purchase by, importation of,
or possession by, the Department of Justice, the Department of
Corrections and Rehabilitation, or to any police department or
sheriff's office, among other entities.
   This bill would also make the above prohibitions inapplicable to
the sale to, purchase by, importation of, or possession of, assault
weapons or .50 BMG rifles by the Department of Forestry and Fire
Protection.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 30625 of the Penal Code is amended to read:
   30625.  Sections 30600, 30605, and 30610 shall not apply to the
sale to, purchase by, importation of, or possession of assault
weapons or a .50 BMG rifle by the Department of Justice, police
departments, sheriffs' offices, marshals' offices, the Department of
Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Department of the California
Highway Patrol, district attorneys' offices, the Department of Fish
and  Game   Wildlife  ,  the Department
of Forestry and Fire Protection,  the Department of Parks and
Recreation, or the military or naval forces of this state or of the
United States, or any federal law enforcement agency for use in the
discharge of their official duties.