1 bill · 2017 Regular Session
Amends existing law to provide that the right to ship, transport, possess or receive a firearm shall not be restored following certain felony convictions.
The purpose of this legislation is to amend the law relating to felons who may possess firearms. The current law makes it clear that the worst kind of felons (murder, rape, kidnapping, drug dealing, sex crimes) cannot possess firearms, even after they are discharged from their sentences. Missing from the list of criminal offenses in the current law are crimes that have been created since the original passage of the law, or crimes that were not originally considered but are crimes committed by organized criminals, terrorists, and criminal gang members. This legislation adds these serious felonies to the current law.