The Gilroy Garlic Festival shooter used a military-style semiautomatic rifle that's illegal to own in California. He bought it legally in Nevada, authorities said.
The gunman in the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting used a military-style semiautomatic rifle that is illegal to own in California, authorities said Monday.
The WASR-10, with its standard clip and stocks, is considered an assault rifle under California law and therefore banned. The Romanian-built weapon looks like an AK-47.On Monday, Mineral County sheriff’s deputies helped FBI agents search a residence in Walker Lake, Nev., believed to be linked to Legan.
In 2014, then-Gov. Jerry Brown enacted a law requiring anyone who buys a firearm out of state and brings it into California after Jan. 1, 2015, to have the it delivered to licensed California dealer and file a report with the state Department of Justice documenting the purchase.AB 1609 requires a 10-day waiting period and a background check. Violations are a misdemeanor for long guns, and felonies for handguns.
The law exempts people who have obtained specified Justice Department permits to deliver weapons from the requirements imposed by this bill. Former Assemblyman Luis A. Alejo , who wrote the law, had said, “I support the 2nd Amendment, but I have seen too many families torn apart by criminal behavior involving firearms. I am not going to sit by idly and wait for more.”
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