AB-1743: Would make it easier for town/cities/counties/colleges to access recovered illegally possessed/crime gun stats and trace data.

So the author, Assembly Member Wicks, wants to make illegally possessed/crime gun stats & trace info more readily available to every level of government and colleges.

[AB-1743](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1743)

([As amends the Law](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1743&showamends=false))

I'm not particularly worried about this one, but I just bring it up to be on folks radar, since it does touch on one portion of AFS. Long term I imagine, with easier access to said data you'll see more local groups use the stats to cook up justifications for local ordinances with more restrictive storage requirements, depending on the source of crime guns. Or use it to bully local gun stores where crime guns may have originated for one reason or another.

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Essentially, current law requires that law enforcement agencies report to CA DOJ information necessary to indentify/trace history of all recovered illegally possessed/crime guns.

Generally, this information is to be made available for academic and policy research purposes. This bill would specify that it's to be made available **without limitatation** to *"any town, city, or county, any state government agency, the University of California, the California State University, or a California community college"* and that *"The Attorney General shall make the information collected pursuant to this section available, upon request" "in a format conducive to the requester’s needs."*