The state's law requires safety features aimed at reducing the chances of accidental discharges of guns.
The California Attorney General's Office on Monday appealed a federal judge's ruling striking down the state's Unsafe Handgun Act.
U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney issued a preliminary injunction March 20 in a federal lawsuit challenging the state's law requiring specific devices on guns to improve their safety and to identify fired bullets.“California's commonsense gun safety laws save lives, and the Unsafe Handgun Act is no exception,” Attorney General Rob Bonta said. “Accidental shootings are preventable.
“As weapons become faster, more powerful, and more deadly, this risk only increases. Flooding the marketplace with unsafe semiautomatic pistols that do not meet necessary safety requirements poses a serious threat to public health and safety, especially for children and young adults.” The law in question was adopted about two decades ago as a reaction to what the Attorney General's Office said was the production of cheaply made handguns.
Carney's ruling does not affect the state's requirement that guns for sale must be in the state's list of weapons that have passed other safety tests.Get Los Angeles's latest local news on crime, entertainment, weather, schools, COVID, cost of living and more. Here's your go-to source for today's LA news.
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