Leaders in San Jose, Calif., have approved new gun control measures — including one that says sellers must video record every sale — barely three weeks after nine people were killed in a shooting attack at a rail yard in the city.
Councilors approved the new measures during a meeting Tuesday night. They were outlined last week by San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo.
San Jose is the first U.S. city to require that sellers put every gun purchase on video.
There are several other provisions in the gun control package.
“First, San Jose would become the first city in the United States to require every gun owner to have liability insurance for their firearms,” Liccardo told KNTV-TV.
“Together, these rules create a constitutionally compliant mechanism to enable law enforcement to impound guns from high-risk individuals unwilling to follow the law.”
The plan would also mandate that all gun owners pay a fee to offset damage done by gun violence, establishes gun buyback programs and bans ghost guns and assault-style weapons.
City leaders said they expect that some parts of the plan will face challenges in court.
The Firearms Policy Coalition criticized each part of Liccardo’s plan, saying each is unconstitutional and will be defeated in court.
Liccardo renewed his push for improved gun control measures after the shooting attack last month at the Valley Transportation Authority transit yard in San Jose. The shooter, Samuel James Cassidy, killed himself at the scene.
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How many times do you have to scream this at Leftists—it is the people who mishandle guns that is responsible for tragedies—NOT THE GUNS THEMSELVES. These people are as brain dead as rocks.
That is doing rocks a disservice.
And how is “mandating all gun owners have insurance”, “COMPLYING WITH THE constitution”
I see nothing in ANY constitutional amendment, MANDATING folks have any form of insurance.. Period.
Another idiotic law.
Yeah, that’ll work. I can see it now…. All the gang-bangers lining up to get their picture taken while buying their guns legally. Bet it happens all the time.
Fools.
I can also see folks living IN San Jose, just traveling to nearby cities, or even across the border, to buy guns, and NO LONGER buying locally..
“First, San Jose would become the first city in the United States to require every gun owner to have liability insurance for their firearms,” Liccardo told KNTV-TV”. Hey Mayor Liccardo, will your gun laws keep criminals from bringing guns into your city from outside your city? The answer is no, so you are a typical liberal airhead!
AND for decades we’ve mandated folk have ‘insurance’ to drive, YET WE STILL GET over TWELVE PERCENT of drivers who either do NOT have insurance, or buy it just to get the card, THEN CEASE PAYING for it, so it lapses, so when they get into accidents there’s STILL a good chunk of drivers who lack the proper insurance they REQUIRE BY LAW..
YET last i saw, BARELY an of them get dinged for HAVING no insurance..
freedom is dead in california.
TO ME, since the days after Reagan left office, that’s when Freedoms in Commiefornia, have slowly but surely started dying off
Sounds like Big Tobacco. Penalize the legal users for consequences of choosing to use tobacco. Now, attempts to penalize LEGAL owners of firearms to pay for unlawful use by criminals who subvert the law at every turn to own/use firearms. I very much doubt that they will go to a gun store, have their photos made, pay any kind of penalty charge to use said firearms. I, for one, am sick to death of being criminalized by my own government for following the laws and then being required to pay for the criminals that are being largely ignored by the govt and press. The solution? Defund the police…that thin blue line between citizens and chaos. And speaking of law enforcement…does this cover the people who are required to carry?
OR the armed security guards, protecting this dunce of a mayor.
Why not just arrest and prosecute criminals instaed of giving them a pass. An inanimate object like a gun does not think or go off on its own, I know that sounds radical to gun controllerss but it’s true, a person has to pull the trigger which requires some conscious effort. When will leaders of communities their approach to this matter is merely treating a symptom and not the cause?
Gun purchases on video? How about cemeteries being on video on Election Day?
HELL how’s about mandate everyone who VOTES< HAVE their pictures taken WHEN THEY VOTE and when they register, so we can compare the two.. OH YEA that would be racist..
Great idea! No picture – no vote!
As i’ve often remarked. IF WE need photo ID to board planes, buy guns, drive etc, THEN WHY SHOULDN’T we mandate photos for voting!
The stupidity of these people is boundless. Get it through your heads, criminals don’t buy guns legally and you don’t have to worry about the people that do. You morons are not solving anything with more and more gun laws. Well, in this case you will just send people out of town.
These unconstitutional laws are there to produce a gun registry by default. Get insurance, and all they have to do is check with the insurance company to get the names and addresses of all gun owners. The people who buy guns must already sign paperwork, and present their picture ID to get a gun. A video of them is not necessary because it meerly duplicates that identification process. I am sure the gun store already has a security camera system for their own security. The insurance would cover what? The legal owner is not going to use it illegally, and accidental shooting are so rare that they are not worth the massive effort and cost.
The people who use guns to harm others will not be from the local community, and don’t buy them legally in that community anyway, so the whole law is useless on its face, and unconstitutional in its essence. This is just another costly court battle that we already know the results from. The city needs to fire these idiots and replace them with responsible people.
AND since we’ve all seen liberals WHINE how racist, requiring home insurance is, how racist requiring voter ID is etc, WHERE ARE THEIR CALLS about how THIS IS racist!!!!
San Jose should have a penalty of $1million dollars and life in prison for any one having a gun during the commission of any crime. Possession of a gun without proper documentation should carry the same penalty. It will never happen because the only people at risk of this are criminals.
AND that is why they wouldn’t ever DO THAT, it requires too much common sense!