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The California Section of Justice ("DOJ") retains an electronic database containing relevant data about firearm sales and transfers. This database is critical to implementing various gun safety laws, especially those requiring people to relinquish firearms later on becoming prohibited from keeping them, like after being bedevilled of a serious firearm-prohibiting offense. For more information well-nigh this automated record database, see the department entitled Retention of Sales / Background Check Records in California.

Other state laws require people to notify the state Department of Justice when they transport firearms into the land of California, or otherwise acquire firearms without the participation of a licensed dealer in California:

Whatever firearm owner who moves into California is deemed a "personal firearm importer."1 Within 60 days, the person must provide a report to DOJ regarding their firearm or sell or transfer the firearm through a licensed dealer or to a sheriff or police section. The form requires the firearm owner to expressly authorize DOJ to perform a groundwork check to determine the owner's firearm eligibility using all relevant country and federal databases, including the federal NICS database. The form besides requires the firearm owner to certify that he or she understands that if the results of this bank check reveal that he or she is ineligible either to lawfully possess or purchase firearms, he or she must relinquish any and all firearms in his or her possession. Although the form does non specify the fourth dimension menstruation during which the person must so relinquish his or her firearms, presumably he or she must exercise so immediately, since his or her possession of those firearms is at all times unlawful.2

A person who moves into the state and is in possession of an attack weapon or a.50 BMG rifle may either obtain a permit from DOJ before entering the state with the firearm, or cause the firearm to be delivered to a licensed dealer who will store the weapon until the person obtains a allow.three

A discover must exist posted conspicuously at every inspection station along the California border, in cake messages not less than 4 inches in top, stating:

"NOTICE: IF YOU ARE A CALIFORNIA RESIDENT, THE FEDERAL GUN CONTROL Human action MAY PROHIBIT YOU FROM BRINGING WITH YOU INTO THIS STATE FIREARMS THAT Yous ACQUIRED OUTSIDE OF THIS Country. IN ADDITION, IF YOU ARE A NEW CALIFORNIA RESIDENT, State LAW REGULATES YOUR BRINGING INTO CALIFORNIA HANDGUNS AND OTHER DESIGNATED FIREARMS AND MANDATES THAT SPECIFIC PROCEDURES BE FOLLOWED. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE PROCEDURES TO Be FOLLOWED IN BRINGING FIREARMS INTO CALIFORNIA OR TRANSFERRING FIREARMS WITHIN CALIFORNIA, Yous SHOULD CONTACT THE CALIFORNIA Section OF JUSTICE OR A LOCAL CALIFORNIA Constabulary ENFORCEMENT Agency."iv

In improver, any person who lawfully possessed an attack weapon or .fifty BMG burglarize prior to the appointment possession of the specific assault weapon or.50 BMG burglarize became illegal, and who sought to go on the firearm, must have registered the firearm with DOJ within a specific fourth dimension menstruum designated by statute. For more than information, run into DOJ's website regarding Frequently Asked Questions Virtually Assault Weapons and.fifty BMG Rifles and see our sections entitled Assault Weapons in California and .50 Caliber Rifles in California.

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  1. Cal. Penal Lawmaking § 17000.[↩]
  2. Cal. Penal Lawmaking § 27560.[↩]
  3. Cal. Penal Code §§ 30925, 30940.[↩]