Lawmakers and community leaders gathered at Monterey Park City Hall to call for the adoption of three state bills — AB 732, AB 733 and AB 1638— introduced earlier this year. All three bills are currently in committee in Sacramento.
would increase the roles of the court, probation and prosecuting attorneys to ensure that guns are relinquished during a conviction, meaning that the court won’t be able to close a case until the firearm has been handed over. The bill would also require someone to be designated to receive updates on armed prohibited people in their area and to report to the California Department of Justice their efforts to get those firearms relinquished.
would require that the local agency provide information in the other language spoken by that population.that left 11 people dead and nine wounded at a local dance studio. The suspected shooter, 72-year-old Hemet resident Huu Can Tran, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Torrance the following day.
“Monterey Park, in light of the recent tragedies has been transformed,” said Monterey Park Mayor Jose Sanchez at the conference. “And that has become today, an agent of change. The change our community wishes to see is a society that is free of gun violence.”
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