Bill Text: CA SB1223 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Weapons: advertising.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-03-17 - Referred to Com. on RLS. [SB1223 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SB1223-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 1223	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Wright

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2014

   An act to amend Section 17505 of the Penal Code, relating to
weapons.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1223, as introduced, Wright. Weapons: advertising.
   Existing law prohibits the possession of various weapons and
related products, including machineguns and assault weapons. Existing
law makes it a crime for any person, as defined, to advertise the
sale of any weapon or device, the possession of which is prohibited,
including machineguns and assault weapons, in any newspaper,
magazine, circular, form letter, or open publication that is
published, distributed, or circulated in California, or on any
billboard, card, label, or other advertising medium, or by means of
any other advertising device.
   This bill would add as an element of this crime that a person
intended for a weapon or device to be sold in this state to any
person prohibited from possessing that weapon or device.
   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 17505 of the Penal Code is amended to read:
   17505.  It shall be unlawful for any person, as defined in Section
16970, to advertise the sale of any weapon or device  , the
possession of which is prohibited  intended to be sold
in this state   to any person prohibited from possessing
that weapon or device  by Section 18710, 20110, 30315, 30320,
32625, or 33410, by Article 2 (commencing with Section 30600) of
Chapter 2 of Division 10 of Title 4, or by any provision listed in
Section 16590, in any newspaper, magazine, circular, form letter, or
open publication that is published, distributed, or circulated in
this state, or on any billboard, card, label, or other advertising
medium, or by means of any other advertising device.