Firearms: silencers.
AB 1589
California Bills
20250AB__158998AMD INTRODUCED 2026-01-15 AMENDED_ASSEMBLY 2026-05-20 2025 AB AMD Introduced by Assembly Member Chen LEAD_AUTHOR ASSEMBLY Chen
An act to amend
Section of the Penal Code, relating to firearms. firearms Firearms: silencers. Existing law makes it a felony for any person, firm, or corporation to possess a silencer within this state. Existing law exempts specified actions from those provisions, including the possession of silencers by specified peace officers employed by specified law enforcement agencies or by military or naval forces, when on duty and when the use of silencers is authorized by the agency and is within the course and scope of their duties.
This bill would further exempt from the prohibition on possessing silencers specified level I reserve peace officers. MAJORITY NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section of the Penal Code is amended to read: 33415.
Section shall not apply to, or affect, any of the following: (
a) The sale to, purchase by, or possession of silencers by agencies listed in
Section 830.1, or the military or naval forces of this state or of the United States, for use in the discharge of their official duties. (
b) The possession of silencers by regular, salaried, full-time peace officers who are employed by an agency listed in
Section 830.1, or by the military or naval forces of this state or of the United States, when on duty and when the use of silencers is authorized by the agency and is within the course and scope of their duties. (
c) The possession of silencers by level I reserve peace officers, as defined in paragraph (1) of subdivision (
a) of
Section 832.6, who are deputized or appointed by an agency listed in
Section 830.1, when on duty and when the use of silencers is authorized by the agency and is within the course and scope of their duties, if the silencer is owned by a law enforcement agency, and affixed to a rifle owned by a law enforcement agency, listed in
Section 830.1. (
d) The manufacture, possession, transportation, or sale or other transfer of silencers to an entity described in subdivision (
a) by dealers or manufacturers registered under