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CA AB1263

Bill

Status

Passed

10/11/2025

Primary Sponsor

Mike Gipson

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Origin

State Assembly

2025-2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Prohibits knowingly or willfully causing, aiding, abetting, or facilitating the unlawful manufacture of firearms, including assault weapons, .50 BMG rifles, machineguns, and firearms made using 3D printers or CNC milling machines; violations are a misdemeanor

  • Expands the definition of "digital firearm manufacturing code" to include computer-aided manufacturing files and codes for producing large-capacity magazines, machinegun components (switches/auto-sears), silencers, and firearm accessories

  • Creates a rebuttable presumption of liability for owners or managers of websites that distribute digital firearm manufacturing code and encourage users to manufacture firearms

  • Requires firearm industry members selling unattached barrels, firearm accessories, or firearm manufacturing machines to provide purchasers with notice that unlicensed manufacturing is generally illegal, obtain acknowledgment of the notice, and verify the buyer is at least 18 years old

  • Imposes a 10-year firearm possession ban on individuals convicted on or after January 1, 2026, of specified misdemeanors including manufacturing undetectable firearms, using 3D printers/CNC machines to make firearms unlawfully, or aiding unlawful firearm manufacture

Legislative Description

Firearms: ghost guns.

Last Action

Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 636, Statutes of 2025.

10/11/2025

Committee Referrals

Appropriations7/16/2025
Judiciary7/2/2025
Public Safety6/18/2025
Rules6/4/2025
Appropriations4/22/2025
Judiciary4/9/2025
Public Safety3/24/2025

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