SR-701-007 (5)
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City Clerk:DF:CEJ:jj (fi)
city council Meeting: 1/24/89
Santa Monica, California
TO: Mayor and Councilmembers
FROM: Mayor Pro Tempore Finkel
SUBJECT: Firearms Regulations Control
Please place a 14 item on the agenda of January 24 to permit me
to ask the Council to do the following things:
1. Instruct the City Attorney to look into the possibility of
invoking the local police powers of Santa Monica for the
purpose of regulating and controlling the acquisition,
possession and use of firearms, guns, including rapid fire
arms, to the extent, if any, that such regulation and control
is not already preempted by state law.
2. Instruct the City I s lobbyist to advise City staff of the
state and status of any past, pending or proposed state
legislation regulating and controlling firearms, guns, etc.,
with a view toward the City of Santa Monica joining in a
lobbying effort to create or strengthen firearm control laws
in California, by networking with other cities: the League of
California Cities, etc.
3. Instruct staff to consult with the school district with a
view toward working together with and helping the school
district in any way possible to obtain the support of the
State Department of Education in lobbying for gun control
laws to protect children, on the ground that children are at
risk even while at school as long as guns abound in private
hands.
4. Instruct staff to cause the Ilguns issuell to be added to and
considered by the presently working youth task force, in
terms of possible suggestions for gun and violence prevention
programs.
The above 4 items should be
for staff investigation with
possible Council aciton.
Thank you.