Cal. Penal Code § 30400
Restrictions Relating to Firearm Precursor Parts
Redline — January 1, 2019 → current.View current text →
Current — January 1, 2023
As of January 1, 2019
(a) Commencing July 1, 2022, a person, corporation, or dealer who does either of the following shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail for a term not to exceed six months, or by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both the imprisonment and fine.
(1) Sells a firearm precursor part to a person under 21 years of age.
(2) Supplies, delivers, or gives possession of a firearm precursor part to a minor who the person, corporation, or dealer knows, or using reasonable care should have known, is prohibited from possessing a firearm or ammunition at that time pursuant to Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 29610) of Division 9.
(b) Proof that a person, corporation, or dealer, or their agent or employee, demanded, was shown, and acted in reasonable reliance upon, bona fide evidence of the age of majority and identity shall be a defense to any criminal prosecution under this section.
(c) The provisions of this section are cumulative and do not restrict the application of any other law. However, an act or omission punishable in different ways by this section and another provision of law shall not be punished under more than one provision.
(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b) and in Section 30420, or except by operation of law, it shall be unlawful for a person to purchase, sell, offer to sell, or transfer ownership of any firearm precursor part in this state that is not a federally regulated firearm precursor part.
(b) This section does not apply to either of the following:
(1) The purchase of a firearm precursor part that is not a federally regulated firearm precursor part by a federally licensed firearms manufacturer or importer, or by a federal licensee authorized to serialize firearms.
(2) The sale, offer to sell, or transfer of ownership of a firearm precursor part that is not a federally regulated firearm precursor part to a federally licensed firearms manufacturer or importer, or to a federal licensee authorized to serialize firearms.
(c) A violation of this section is a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding six months, by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both that fine and imprisonment.
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