AB 1753 and SB 948 are enrolled and waiting on the Governor. AB 1753 would add ammunition to firearm surrender under restraining orders. SB 948 extends the import reporting window for handguns to 180 days and adds a training requirement to the firearm safety certificate. Neither is law yet.
AB 1615 changes county probation officers’ off-roster service-handgun qualification from at least every 6 months to every 3 months and removes the pre-2021 cutoff for firearms-only POST training. Effective January 1, 2027.
The Ninth Circuit upheld California's gun-store recording mandate (Penal Code section 26806), rejecting First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendment challenges in Richards v. Newsom.
Effective September 1, 2026, California's new CCW renewal fingerprinting, higher fees, and mandatory federal Rap Back enrollment go live for the statewide licensing workflow — a fall workflow shift for CCW renewals.
California and Giffords lost their standing fight to block ATF's carve-out for unfinished AR-15-style receivers, per the Ninth Circuit's August 21 decision.
Gov. Newsom signed AB 2047 on Sep 26, 2026 (Ch. 461). It orders DOJ to check quarterly, starting no later than July 1, 2027, for industry standards on 3D-printer firearm blocking technology. Nothing applies to printer buyers today; any sales rule would start a year after DOJ publishes guidance.
As of Thursday, August 27, 2026, California's DROS Entry System won't let a dealer submit your purchase without your occupation. It isn't a new law — it's a line that has been sitting in Penal Code 28160 all along, and the software finally enforces it. Here's the statute, what the DOJ has and hasn't published, and why the funny answers being passed around the forums carry real criminal exposure.
Glendale just took its CCW application fee from $100 to $1,078 — with renewals at $828. Riverside County charges $20. Same state, same statute, same right, a 50x spread. Here's what you'll actually pay all-in, what the law allows, and why this is headed to court.
Since August 1, 2026, California's DROP platform forces 500+ registered data brokers to delete your personal information — free, in one request, every 45 days, forever. For gun owners, whose home addresses have a way of ending up in the wrong databases, it's the highest-value hour you'll spend this month.
The $200 tax stamp is gone and a Texas judge just called NFA registration unconstitutional. It's the biggest shake-up to federal gun law in 90 years — and for Californians, suppressors are still a felony. Here's what actually changed, what didn't, and the one wrinkle nobody's talking about.
