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Newsom signs five firearms bills in October 2025 legislative update

Published October 10, 2025 · Updated October 12, 2026

The governor's office announced the signing of five firearms-related bills on Oct. 10, 2025, with two more signed on adjacent days.

Written by the CalGunHub desk from public reporting

Who this affects: The five bills signed Oct. 10, 2025, plus AB 383 and AB 1263 signed on adjacent days, affect licensed dealers, firearm purchasers, concealed-carry applicants and people subject to restraining orders, with provisions phasing in from Jan. 1, 2026 through July 1, 2027 depending on the statute. Each measure's text specifies who it applies to and when. This is general information, not legal advice.

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed five firearms-related bills on Oct. 10, 2025, according to a legislative update posted by the governor's office. The measures were AB 1127 by Assemblymembers Jesse Gabriel and Catherine Stefani, addressing convertible pistols (Chapter 572, Statutes of 2025); AB 1078 by Assemblymember Marc Berman, covering concealed-carry licensing and firearm purchase limits (Chapter 570); AB 1344 by Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin, creating a gun violence restraining order pilot program (Chapter 573); AB 1363 by Assemblymember Stefani, known as Wyland's Law, concerning firearms prohibition violations (Chapter 574); and SB 704 by Sen. Jesse Arreguin, regulating firearm barrel sales (Chapter 591).

Two additional firearms bills were signed on adjacent days, the governor's office and legislative records show. AB 383 by Assemblymember Mike Gipson, dealing with notification and caseload provisions for armed prohibited persons (Chapter 362), appeared in the office's Oct. 6 update. AB 1263, also by Gipson, imposing new rules on firearm parts associated with unserialized guns, was chaptered Oct. 11, 2025 as Chapter 636, according to the California Legislative Information website.

The signings came ahead of the Oct. 12-13 deadline for the governor to act on bills passed in the 2025 session. The National Rifle Association's Institute for Legislative Action, an advocacy organization that opposes the measures, counted four of the bills in an Oct. 13, 2025 article and characterized them as anti-gun legislation. No firearms-specific veto was identified in the October 2025 signing window.

Update: Several of the signed measures carried delayed operative dates. The AB 1127 dealer sales prohibition became operative July 1, 2026, and the law was challenged by the Second Amendment Foundation in Jaymes v. Bonta, filed Oct. 13, 2025 and dismissed April 13, 2026, and by a U.S. Department of Justice suit filed July 1, 2026. AB 1263 and the first phase of SB 704 took effect Jan. 1, 2026, with SB 704's eligibility-check phase set for July 1, 2027. AB 1078's three-firearms-per-30-day purchase limit took effect April 1, 2026.

Informational only, not legal advice. Facts are attributed to the sources listed above.