California SB 1315 was read for the third time of the Senate Floor and passed according to Dr. Airsoft of Airsoft Medicine and it was read for the first time in the Assembly where it will go through the Assembly Public Safety Committee. For those in California wanting to know who voted for or against SB 1315, here is the tally:

AYES (21): Alquist, Calderon, Corbett, De León, DeSaulnier, Evans, Hernandez, Kehoe, Leno, Lieu, Liu, Lowenthal, Padilla, Pavley, Price, Rubio, Simitian, Steinberg, Vargas, Wolk, Yee

NOES (14): Anderson, Berryhill, Blakeslee, Cannella, Correa, Emmerson, Fuller, Gaines, Harman, Huff, La Malfa, Strickland, Walters, Wyland

NO VOTE RECORDED: Dutton, Hancock, Negrete, McLeod, Runner, Wright

Even if the State Senators who have no recorded votes went against it, the bill would still have passed.

More details about this bill here.

The bill is getting closer and closer to approval as a law and an easier way is to have the SB 1315 stopped dead on its tracks at the Assembly Committee on Public Safety as there are fewer Assembly members to take the case and influence them in not having this put forward for final voting by the Assembly. It was this committee that listens more carefully to the airsoft community so better start revving up the phones, emails or even visitations to them to state your opposition.

Dr. Airsoft has provided a template which you can use or modify to even have an even more personal message of opposition:

"I am (your name). My zip code is (your zip code)/ Please oppose SB 1315 which proposes to allow LA County to be unique among all municipalities in the State of California to restrict freedoms related to airsoft and small caliber paintball guns. This was tried last year on the state level with SB 798, which failed to pass. I share with Senator De Leon, the author of the bill, the desire to get airsoft guns out of the hands of unattended minors in public, but this bill is not the way to do it. The Airsoft Safety Foundation and Airsoft Medicine would like to work together with Senator De Leon to make this happen."

You can call up the following members of the Assembly Committee on Public Safety or click on the links to visit their websites:

Tom Ammiano - Chair (916) 319-2013
Steve Knight - Vice Chair (916) 319-2036
Gilbert Cedillo (916) 319-2045
Curt Hagman  (916) 319-2060
Holly J. Mitchell  (916) 319-2047
Nancy Skinner  (916) 319-2014