FRESNO (KMJ) — A collection of law enforcement personnel all met in Downtown Fresno to denounce Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom’s proposed Safety for All Act.
The act is being introduced as a means of reducing the number of lives lost to gun violence, but those against it stated Tuesday morning that it will not disarm criminals, but disarm victims.
“The ‘Safety for All Act’ has a catchy name but I’m urging voters not to be fooled by misleading titles”, started Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims.
“It would criminalize law abiding citizens, and divert law enforcement resources from fighting real crime”.
If passed, it’d bring a number of gun related restrictions, including prohibiting the sale of large magazines and would also add new rules to the sale of ammunition.
“This pending initiative will confiscate standard capacity magazines. It will ban the possession of a magazine with greater than a ten round capacity, regardless of when you purchased them.
“Current legal magazine owners will be forced to turn them in, have them destroyed, or sell them to a dealer.”
Sheriff Mims adds that it’ll create a $25 million bureaucracy, with the sole responsibility of regulating the sale of ammunition.
“It will require that all ammunition purchases be reported electronically at the moment of sale, to the state who will record it in a database. It will force all dealers in California to obtain an ammunition vendor’s license in order to sell ammunition.
“It will also force all employees of any licensed vendor to obtain a state issued certificate of eligibility in order to work with ammunition”.
The Sheriff of Fresno County was joined in her public condemnation by Coalinga Police Chief Michael Salvador, Reedley Police Chief Joe Garza, Pink Pistols Member Nicki Stallard, Kings County Sheriff David Robinson, Kingsburg Police Chief Neil Dadian Fowler, Police Chief Michael Brand, and Mariposa County Sheriff Doug Binnewies.
The legislation is currently with the Secretary of State’s Office, pending approval for the November ballot.
Hear the report from KMJ’s Dominic McAndrew as it aired:
