California will spend $24M to pull guns from criminals, mentally ill




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Summary: California Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law a measure that funds special agents to confiscate weapons from the mentally ill and those with criminal convictions. The Los Angeles Times reported that the new law releases $24 million from the state's surplus fund coffers to hire the new agents, who in turn will locate the estimated 40,000 weapons that are now illegally owned.