STATE OF CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
PAGE 13 of 13 BOF 4012 (Rev. 11/2012)
Firearm prohibitions for misdemeanor violations of the offenses listed below are generally for ten years from the date of conviction,
but the duration of each prohibition may vary. All statutory references are to the California Penal Code, unless otherwise indicated.
• Threatening public officers, employees, and school officials (Pen. Code, § 71.)
• Threatening certain public officers, appointees, judges, staff or their families with the intent and apparent ability to carry out the threat
(Pen. Code, § 76.)
• Intimidating witnesses or victims (Pen. Code, § 136.1.)
• Possessing a deadly weapon with the intent to intimidate a witness (Pen. Code, § 136.5.)
• Threatening witnesses, victims, or informants (Pen. Code, § 140.)
• Attempting to remove or take a firearm from the person or immediate presence of a public or peace officer (Pen. Code, § 148(d).)
• Unauthorized possession of a weapon in a courtroom. Courthouse, or court building, or at a public meeting (Pen. Code, § 171(b).)
• Bringing into or possessing a loaded firearm within the state capitol, legislative offices, etc. (Pen. Code, § 171(c).)
• Taking into or possessing loaded firearms within the Governor's Mansion or residence of other constitutional officers (Pen. Code, 171(d).)
• Supplying, selling or giving possession of a firearm to a person for participation in criminal street gangs (Pen. Code, § 186.28.)
• Assault (Pen. Code, §§ 240, 241.)
• Battery (Pen. Code, §§ 242, 243.)
• Sexual Battery (Pen. Code, § 243.4)
• Assault with a stun gun or taser weapon (Pen. Code, § 244.5.)
• Assault with a deadly weapon other than a firearm, or with force likely to produce great bodily injury (Pen. Code, § 245.)
• Assault with a deadly weapon or instrument; by any means likely to produce great bodily injury or with a stun gun or taser on a school employee
engaged in performance of duties (Pen. Code, § 245.5 .)
• Discharging a firearm in a grossly negligent manner (Pen. Code, § 246.3.)
• Shooting at an unoccupied aircraft, motor vehicle, or uninhabited building or dwelling house (Pen. Code, § 247.)
• Inflicting corporal injury on a spouse or significant other (Pen. Code, § 273.5.)*
• Wilfully violating a domestic protective order (Pen. Code, § 273.6.)
• Drawing, exhibiting, or using deadly weapon other than a firearm (Pen. Code, § 417, subd. (a)(1) & (a)(2).)
• Inflicting serious bodily injury as a result of brandishing (Pen. Code, § 417.6.)
• Making threats to commit a crime which will result in death or great bodily injury to another person (Pen. Code, § 422.)
• Bringing into or possessing firearms upon or within public schools and grounds (Pen. Code, § 626.9.)
• Stalking (Pen. Code, § 646.9.)
• Armed criminal action (Pen. Code, § 25800.)
• Possessing a deadly weapon with intent to commit an assault (Pen. Code, § 17500.)
• Driver of any vehicle who knowingly permits another person to discharge a firearm from the vehicle or any person who willfully and maliciously
discharges a firearm from a motor vehicle (Pen. Code, § 26100, subd. (b) or (d).)
• Criminal possession of a firearm (Pen. Code, § 25300.)
• Firearms dealer who sells, transfers or gives possession of any firearm to a minor or a handgun to a person under 21 (Pen. Code, § 27510.)
• Various violations involving sales and transfers of firearms (Pen. Code, § 27590, subd. (c).)
• Person or corporation who sells any concealable firearm to any minor (former Pen. Code, § 12100, subd. (a).)
• Unauthorized possession/transportation of a machine gun (Pen. Code, § 32625)
• Possession of ammunition designed to penetrate metal or armor (Pen. Code, § 30315.)
• Carrying a concealed or loaded firearm or other deadly weapon or wearing a peace officer uniform while picketing (Pen. Code, §§ 830.95, subd. (a),
17510, subd. (a.)
• Bringing firearm related contraband into juvenile hall (Welf. & Inst. Code, § 871.5.)
• Bringing firearm related contraband into a youth authority institution (Welf. & Inst. Code, § 1001.5.)
• Purchase, possession, or receipt of a firearm or deadly weapon by a person receiving in-patient treatment for a mental disorder, or by a person who
has communicated to a licensed psychotherapist a serious threat of physical violence against an identifiable victim (Welf. & Inst. Code, § 8100.)
• Providing a firearm or deadly weapon to a person described in Welfare and Institutions Code sections 8100 or 8103 (Welf. & Inst. Code, § 8101.)
• Purchase, possession, or receipt of a firearm or deadly weapon by a person who has been adjudicated to be a mentally disordered sex offender or
found to be mentally incompetent to stand trial, or not guilty by reason of insanity, and individuals placed under conservatorship
(Welf. & Inst. Code, § 8103.)
The following misdemeanor convictions result in a lifetime prohibition:
• Assault with a firearm (Pen. Code, §§ 29800, subd. (a)(1), 23515, subd. (a).)
• Shooting at an inhabited or occupied dwelling house, building, vehicle, aircraft, housecar or camper (Pen. Code, §§ 246, 29800, subd. (a)(1), 17510,
23515, subd. (b).)
• Brandishing a firearm in presence of a peace officer (Pen. Code §§ 417, subd. (c), 23515, subd. (d), 29800, subd. (a)(1).)
• Two or more convictions of Penal Code section 417, subdivision (a)(2) (Pen. Code § 29800, subd. (a)(2).)
* A “misdemeanor crime of domestic violence” (18 U.S.C. §§ 921(a)(33)(A), 922(g)(9).)
CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
BUREAU OF FIREARMS
FIREARMS PROHIBITING CATEGORIES
Note: The Department of Justice provides this document for informational purposes only. This list may not be inclusive of all firearms prohibitions.
For specific legal advice, please consult with an attorney licensed to practice law in California.
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