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The legislature of California declared that "proliferation and use" of .50 BMG rifles posed a terrorist threat, as well as a threat to the "health, safety, and security of all residents" of California. [1] The act required existing .50 BMG rifles to be registered with the state and prohibited the sale of any rifle after the ban went into effect.
In 1999, Penal Code § 12276.1 was added to California State Law ("SB23"), defining assault weapons by characteristics. This law was renumbered in 2010 to the current Penal Code § 30515. In 2016, Penal Code § 30515 was amended following the San Bernardino Terrorist Attack.
The attack was the deadliest mass shooting in the U.S. since the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, [7] [8] the deadliest terrorist attack to occur in the U.S. since the September 11 attacks and the deadliest mass shooting in California since the 1984 San Ysidro McDonald's massacre.
Terrorism enhancements, like hate crime enhancements, increase the penalties for certain crimes simply because the motive is politically controversial. Other counterterrorism laws allow the ...
The FBI is investigating this week's massacre in which a married couple killed 14 people in California as an 'act of terrorism.'
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) -- Two California men arrested by the FBI wanted to join the Islamic State group and bought a plane ticket for one of them to travel to Turkey with the hope of becoming a ...
Crime in California refers to crime occurring within the U.S. state of California. The principal source of law for California criminal procedure is the California Penal Code . California has a lower murder rate than the US average.
"Under California law, the elements of the completed crime of making threats with intent to terrorize are: (1) willfully threatening to commit a crime that will result in death or great bodily injury to another person, (2) specific intent that the statement be taken as a threat, (3) the threat was on its face and under the circumstances so unequivocal, unconditional, immediate, and specific as ...