Firearms: buy-back programs.

Existing law generally requires a law enforcement officer to issue a receipt when the officer takes a firearm into custody. Existing law requires that a firearms transaction be conducted through a licensed firearms dealer if neither party to the transaction holds a dealer's license. Existing law exempts several firearms transfers from the requirement to conduct the transaction through a dealer, including the transfer of a firearm to an authorized representative of a government entity as part of an authorized, voluntary program in which the government entity is buying or receiving weapons from private individuals. This bill would require a city, county, city and county, or state government entity operating a voluntary firearm buy-back program, as defined, to process functioning handguns received pursuant to the program by either performing ballistics testing, a firearms trace, or by cataloging and storing the handgun, as specified. The bill would except antique firearms, as defined, from these provisions.