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AB-584 • 2026

Firearms dealers and manufacturers: secure facilities.

Firearms dealers and manufacturers: secure facilities.

Firearms
Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Hadwick
Last action
2025-07-14
Official status
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 40, Statutes of 2025.
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide specific details on cost implications or consequences for non-compliance.

Secure Facilities for Gun Dealers and Manufacturers

This law updates the definition of a secure facility to include new types of doors with panic hardware and multipoint locks.

What This Bill Does

  • Expands the definition of a 'secure facility' to allow doorways equipped with windowed or windowless steel doors that have panic hardware operating a multipoint lock.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Firearms dealers who need to store firearms securely when closed.
  • Manufacturers who make and store firearms and parts.

Terms To Know

Secure facility
A place where guns are stored safely, with strong doors and locks.
Panic hardware
Special door equipment that helps people quickly open a door in an emergency.

Limits and Unknowns

  • Does not specify the cost implications of changing facilities.
  • Does not outline consequences for non-compliance with new rules.

Bill History

  1. 2025-07-14 California Legislative Information

    Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 40, Statutes of 2025.

  2. 2025-07-14 California Legislative Information

    Approved by the Governor.

  3. 2025-07-03 California Legislative Information

    Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.

  4. 2025-06-27 California Legislative Information

    In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.

  5. 2025-06-27 California Legislative Information

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1809.).

  6. 2025-06-24 California Legislative Information

    Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.

  7. 2025-06-23 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar.

  8. 2025-06-10 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  9. 2025-05-07 California Legislative Information

    Referred to Com. on PUB. S.

  10. 2025-04-24 California Legislative Information

    In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

  11. 2025-04-24 California Legislative Information

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1279.)

  12. 2025-04-10 California Legislative Information

    Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.

  13. 2025-04-09 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 9).

  14. 2025-03-26 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (March 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  15. 2025-03-13 California Legislative Information

    Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.

  16. 2025-03-12 California Legislative Information

    From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended.

  17. 2025-02-24 California Legislative Information

    Referred to Com. on PUB. S.

  18. 2025-02-13 California Legislative Information

    From printer. May be heard in committee March 15.

  19. 2025-02-12 California Legislative Information

    Read first time. To print.

Official Summary Text

AB 584, Hadwick.
Firearms dealers and manufacturers: secure facilities.
Existing law defines a secure facility, for purposes of requirements for firearms dealers to store firearms when the dealer is not open for business, as a building that, among other requirements, has perimeter doorways with specified characteristics, including that the doorway is a windowless or windowed steel security door equipped with both a dead bolt and a doorknob lock, as specified, or a metal grate that is padlocked and affixed to the licensee’s premises, as specified. Existing law defines a secure facility, for purposes of requirements for firearms manufacturers to store manufactured firearms and barrels, as a facility that has perimeter doorways with additional specified characteristics, including that the doorway has hinges and hasps attached to doors by welding, riveting, or bolting with nuts on the inside of the door or that are installed so that they cannot be removed when
the doors are closed and locked.
Under existing law, failure to comply with these requirements is grounds for the forfeiture or revocation of a license or the imposition of a civil fine, as specified.
This bill would expand the definition of a secure facility for the entities described above to allow a doorway with a windowed or windowless steel door that is equipped with panic hardware that operates a multipoint lock that bolts into the interior frame of the door, as specified.

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