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The Californian city of San Jose will be the first in the country to impose gun possession requirements

2022-01-26T13:46:07.767Z


The city's mayor, Sam Liccardo, announced that the new fee for gun owners would go to support initiatives to reduce violence.


By Chantal Da Silva -

NBC News

The Californian city of San José will become the first in the United States to apply an ordinance that requires most gun owners to pay a fee and take out civil liability insurance.

In a statement Tuesday night, San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo said the city council had voted in favor of both measures, which are intended to reduce the risk of gun damage and relieve contributors to the financial cost of gun violence.

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The council overwhelmingly approved the measures despite opposition from gun owners, who said they would violate their Second Amendment rights and vowed to sue.

The ordinance still needs to pass a final reading next month before it can go into effect in the Silicon Valley city in August.

Funds generated from the fees paid by gun owners will go to “evidence-based initiatives to reduce gun violence and harm,” Liccardo said.

The fee is expected to be around $25

, according to NBC News San Diego, an affiliate of our sister network.

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In the meantime, having liability insurance is meant to encourage gun owners in San Jose to take safety measures, including having gun safes, installing trigger locks and taking safety classes.

However, gun owners who do not purchase insurance will not lose their guns or face criminal charges under the new rules.

“Thank you to my council colleagues who continue to show their commitment to reducing gun violence and its devastation in our community,” Liccardo said.

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The new measures will help build a "constitutional complaint path to mitigate unnecessary suffering from gun damage in our community."

The Mayor of San Jose, California, Sam Liccardo at an event honoring victims of a shooting, on May 27, 2021. Aric Crabb / AP

The mayor of San José also hopes to support other cities so that they "replicate these initiatives throughout the country."

Liccardo had initially proposed the measures in June, nearly two weeks after a gunman fatally shot nine co-workers at a San Jose light rail yard before killing himself in an incident that made national headlines.

As the mayor of San Jose celebrated Tuesday's vote, not everyone was happy with the result.

Before the vote, Sam Paredes, executive director of Gun Owners of California, said his group would sue if the proposal went into effect.

He condemned it as "totally unconstitutional in any configuration," according to NBC San Diego.

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Liccardo said attorneys have already stepped forward to defend the city pro bono if legal action is taken in response to the new rules. 

Source: telemundo

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