Bill > AB1974

This bill authorizes law enforcement agencies, such as police departments and sheriff's departments, to establish voluntary firearm storage programs, allowing individuals to temporarily entrust their firearms to the agency for safekeeping to help prevent gun violence, suicides, and other injuries. These programs would provide clear instructions on how to transfer a firearm to the agency and how to request its return, with the agency checking databases to ensure the firearm isn't stolen or involved in a crime and verifying the owner's eligibility to possess firearms upon its return. The bill also specifies that if a firearm is not retrieved within a timeframe set by the agency, it will be destroyed, and importantly, law enforcement agencies will not be held liable for any damage to firearms while they are in their temporary custody.

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