Calif. Legislation to reinstate felony penalties for firearm theft dies

Inland News Today reports:

Assemblywoman Melissa Melendez, R-Lake Elsinore, announced her bill, AB 150, to allow voters a chance to reinstate felony penalties for firearm theft recently reduced under Proposition 47, was held in the Assembly Appropriations Committee, effectively rendering it dead.

“The Democrats have demonstrated appalling hypocrisy today,” said Melendez, the Vice Chair of the Assembly Public Safety Committee. “The Democrats consistently enact harsher gun control laws for law-abiding citizens. Today, they made it easier for a lawbreaker to kill an innocent victim.”

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