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Firearms: firearm barrels.

It became law on Oct 10, 2025.

CA SB 704 · Senate Bill · 2025–2026

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Oct 10, 2025

What it does

Existing law generally requires the sale or transfer of firearms to be conducted through a licensed firearms dealer. For purposes of these provisions, existing law defines "firearm" to mean a device, designed to be used as a weapon, from which is expelled through a barrel a projectile by the force of an explosion or other form of combustion and to include the frame or receiver of the weapon, including both a completed frame or receiver, or a firearm precursor part. For these purposes, existing law defines "firearm precursor part" as any forging, casting, printing, extrusion, machined body, or similar article that has reached a stage in manufacture where it may readily be completed,…

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Where it stands

This bill passed and is now law.

  1. Introduced (Done)

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  3. Floor (Done)

  4. Law (Done)

    Oct 10, 2025

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Who is involved

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Where it goes next

It is law in California. What happens now is up to the agency that carries it out, the courts, and the place itself.

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