Just wanted to point out that this bill does not authorize home inspections of persons who registered AWs.
This bill applies only to businesses such as gun dealers and movie prop companies who have permits for machine guns, AWs, destructive devices etc., that are renewable annually.
The permit regulations ([url]http://caag.state.ca.us/firearms/regs/dwann.pdf[/url]) have been on the books for at least 14 years.
The regulations contain explicit provisisions for the businesses' safe storage of machine guns, AWs, destructive devices, etc. (There are no comparable provisions in the AW registration legislation.)
Also, mandatory safety inspections for permit holders have been around since at least 1988. (See regulation 974.) The only new thing this bill does is specify how often the gun dealers and movie companies should be inspected.
The bill is contingent on the legislature appropriating funds for the business inspections in the budget act. Given the gazillion dollar deficit in Cal., how likely is it that will happen?
This is a weak and tentative bill that does not make any radical change to existing law and does not apply to anyone except business who have machine gun permits, short barreled rifle permits, etc.
When I pointed out on another board that this bill did not mean what the poster thought it meant (i.e., home inspections for registered AW owners), I got a lot of crap about how I was not able to see the "slippery slope," how I was part of the problem, etc. That's fine with me if you think that.
I would just ask that everyone read the legislation, the permit provisions in the Penal Code, and the DOJ "dangerous weapons" reason to do home inspections.regulations, and make your own decision about what this bill really does.
I personally don't think this bill does much of anything at all and I don't see this particular bill as part of a slippery slope where there have been mandatory inspections for businesses/permit holders and it's taken 14 years to say they should happen once a year or once every 5 years.
Ed