State measures, pushed after previous mass shootings, mean California has fewer gun deaths per resident than most states.
But Saturday night’s horrificpreventing gun violence in a country where gun ownership is widely considered a constitutionally protected right, firearms move freely between states with vastly different regulations and gun-control measures are dotted with exceptions.Yet California’s problem with gun violence does remain significantly smaller than in most other states, which advocates credit to the rules that are on the books.
California’s more stringent gun safety measures stemmed from an explosion of shootings decades ago, including the 1989 slaughter of children in a Stockton schoolyard and a 1993 mass killing in a law office in downtown San Francisco. “Compared to citizens of other states, Californians are about 25% less likely to die” in those kinds of events, according to the institute.
After Benitez issued his injunction last month in the dealer lawsuits case, Newsom called him a “wholly owned subsidiary of the gun lobby and the National Rifle Association.”Last week, California Attorney General Rob Bonta joined 17 other attorneys general in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a New York law making it easier for citizens to sue gunmakers. The decision could affect the status of California’s effort to do so.
California’s assault weapons ban also has faced court challenges. But, like many firearms regulations, the ban carries less weight than its name implies.State law defines the banned weapons as semiautomatic guns with certain technical features, such as a flash suppressor. It also requires guns to have magazines that hold no more than 10 bullets — the industry standard is a 30-round magazine.
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