Except as provided in Sections 33220 and 33225 and in Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 17700) of Division 2 of Title 2, any person in this state who manufactures or causes to be manufactured, imports into the state, keeps for sale, or offers or exposes for sale, or who gives, lends, or possesses any short-barreled rifle or short-barreled shotgun is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year or imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170.
Cal. Penal Code § 33215
Restrictions Relating to Short-Barreled Rifle or Short-Barreled Shotgun
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Messerschmidt v. Millender (2012)
Most recently applied in 245 Cal. App. 4th 1288 - People v. Rafael C. (In re Rafael C.) (March 2016)
Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 43, Sec. 109
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
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