Criminal,
Civil Rights
Apr. 3, 2020
State reports drop in number of people on prohibited gun list
The Department of Justice report said the enforcement unit made 21,696 contacts with individuals in 2019, and seized 2,130 firearms. Nearly half of these guns were previously unknown to law enforcement.




Legislators have frequently grilled Attorney General Xavier Becerra and his predecessors over enforcing the state's Armed and Prohibited Persons list. But the California Department of Justice delivered a report this week that suggests progress has been made.
The list shrank for the first time in five years during 2019, according to the legislatively mandated report. As of Jan. 1, there were 22,424 people on the list, a drop of abo...
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