"...a firearm is loaded if the ammunition for that firearm is stored in proximity to the firearm..."

Currently in the Kalifornia State Sentate:

http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1101-1150/sb_1140_bill_20040426_amended_sen.html

SB 1140, as amended, Scott. Firearms: minors.

"Existing law defines "loaded firearm." Existing law provides that a person commits the crime of "criminal storage of a firearm" if, among other things, he or she keeps any loaded firearm within any premises that are under his or her custody or control and he or she knows or reasonably should know that a child is likely to gain access to the firearm without the permission of the child's parent or legal guardian and the child obtains access to the firearm and thereby causes death or injury, as specified.

This bill would expand the definition of 2nd degree criminal storage of a firearm by specifying that a firearm is loaded if the ammunition for that firearm is stored in proximity to the firearm so that gaining access to the firearm also provides immediate access to the ammunition for that firearm. This bill would remove from the crime of "criminal storage of a firearm" the requirement that the child gain access to the firearm without the permission of the child' s parent or legal guardian. Because this bill would expand the definition of an existing crime, it would impose a state-mandated local program."


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How people live there, without constantly tar & feathering those elected criminals, is beyond me, but does prove that they are not just on a national level...


--WP