The new law is expected to raise $160 million annually to fund school safety and violence prevention programs
The tax would not apply to police officers and it would not apply to businesses with sales under $5,000 over a three-month period. from the governor’s office on Tuesday, California officials estimate it will “generate $160 million annually to fund school safety and violence prevention programs, including initiatives to prevent school shootings, bolster firearm investigations, reduce retaliatory violence, and remove guns from domestic abusers.
Newsom stated that “California’s gun death rate is 43% lower than the rest of the nation” and the new legistlation “will make our communities and families safer.”the governor said that the new tax was “a pretty modest investment in prevention,” adding, “The carnage, it’s too much. We can’t normalize it, we can’t accept it. This is a small price to pay.”
The laws were among the more than 20 bills Newsom signed that day, but he acknowledged that many of the measures may not pass a new standard on interpreting the nation’s gun laws that the U.S. Supreme Court issued last year. “It may mean nothing if the federal courts are throwing them out,” Newsom said, per AP. “We feel very strongly that these bills meet the , and they were drafted accordingly. But I’m not naive about the recklessness of the federal courts and the ideological agenda.”
The governor also signed a law that would require all semiautomatic pistols sold in California to use microstamping technology, giving each bullet would a unique marking and making it easier for law enforcement to identify the gun it was fired from.
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