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‘Ghost guns’ face rules under California bill

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State Senators Kevin de Leon, D-Los Angeles, Ellen Corbett, D-San Leandro, right, and Noreen Evans, D-Santa Rosa, seated, watch as the votes are tallied for de Leon's bill to require toy guns to look different from guns that fire bullets, during the Senate session at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014. By a 22-8 vote the Senate approved the bill, SB199, that will require toy guns, BB guns, pellet guns and airsoft guns to be made to look clearly different from guns that fire bullets. The bill was prompted by the fatal shooting of a 13-year-old boy in Santa Rosa by a Sonoma County Sheriff's deputy who mistook the boy's airsoft rifle for a real AK47 last October. The bill now goes to the Assembly.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Pellet gun proposal responds to shooting tragedies

By DON THOMPSON - Associated Press

FILE -- In this Aug. 13, 2013 file photo, actress Jennifer Garner, right, describes how paparazzi aggressively follow her and her three children daily, while she and actress Halle Berry, left, testified before the Assembly Judiciary Committee in support of a bill that would limit the ability of paparazzi to photograph children of celebrities and public figures, at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. A related measure by Assemblyman Richard Bloom, D-Santa Monica, would amend the civil prohibition on stalking to prohibit surveillance techniques, including staying outside a persons' home, school or work place with no legitimate purpose. Bloom's measure is one of the hundreds of bills that face an end-of-the-month deadline to pass their house of origin.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, file)

Legislative deadline nears for hundreds of bills

By DON THOMPSON - Associated Press

FILE -- In this Aug. 13, 2013 file photo, actress Jennifer Garner, right, describes how paparazzi aggressively follow her and her three children daily, while she and actress Halle Berry, left, testified before the Assembly Judiciary Committee in support of a bill that would limit the ability of paparazzi to photograph children of celebrities and public figures, at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. A related measure by Assemblyman Richard Bloom, D-Santa Monica, would amend the civil prohibition on stalking to prohibit surveillance techniques, including staying outside a persons' home, school or work place with no legitimate purpose. Bloom's measure is one of the hundreds of bills that face an end-of-the-month deadline to pass their house of origin.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, file)

Legislative deadline nears for hundreds of bills

By DON THOMPSON - Associated Press

A homemade fully automatic rifle is displayed at a news conference by State Sen. Kevin de Leon, D-Los Angeles, where he unveiled legislation dealing with so called &quot;ghost guns,&quot; at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, Jan. 13, 2014. Under de Leon's proposed legislation, SB808 would allow the manufacture or assembly of homemade weapons, but require the makers to first apply to the state Department of Justice for a serial number that would be given only after the applicants undergo a background check. De Leon plans to amend the bill to also require that guns contain permanent pieces of metal that could be detected by X-ray machines and metal detectors. .(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

‘Ghost gun’ regulations pushed in California bill

By DON THOMPSON - Associated Press

A homemade fully automatic rifle is displayed at a news conference by State Sen. Kevin de Leon, D-Los Angeles, where he unveiled legislation dealing with so called &quot;ghost guns,&quot; at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, Jan. 13, 2014. Under de Leon's proposed legislation, SB808 would allow the manufacture or assembly of homemade weapons, but require the makers to first apply to the state Department of Justice for a serial number that would be given only after the applicants undergo a background check. De Leon plans to amend the bill to also require that guns contain permanent pieces of metal that could be detected by X-ray machines and metal detectors. .(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

California bill seeks to regulate homemade guns

By DON THOMPSON - Associated Press

Actress Halle Berry testifies June 25, 2013, before the Assembly Committee on Public Safety at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., for a bill that would limit the ability of paparazzi to photograph children of celebrities and public figures. (Associated Press)

Halle Berry: Actress describes daughter’s harassment terror

By Tracie Cone - Associated Press