Oakland City Council Unanimously Approves Vice Mayor Rebecca Kaplan’s Proposal To Support Litigation Against Ghost Guns

Oakland, CA — Today, the Oakland City Council voted to unanimously o.k. the resolution introduced by Vice Mayor Rebecca Kaplan, successful enactment of San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin suit against “ghost gun” manufacturers. The suit seeks a tribunal bid to barroom the companies from shipping their products successful California. Vice Mayor Kaplan applauds Attorney General  Rob Bonta, who announced aboriginal past week that helium volition articulation the suit  to combat this increasing situation astatine its source. 

There has been an upward inclination of weapon unit successful Oakland since the commencement of the COVID-19 pandemic, and particularly implicit caller months. Illegal  gun  dealers  and  users  are supplied  by the ease  of  purchasing  and assembly  of  ghost  guns  and  their  lack  of  traceability. This inclination has not lone impacted Oakland, but the Bay Area and beyond. 

Kaplan states, “People are shipping decease into our community, and making profits portion evading basal weapon information laws. I americium pleased that my colleagues passed my proposal, and present the City of Oakland publically supports this litigation to clasp these “ghost gun” manufacturers accountable.” 

Item: Link 

The Vice Mayor Kaplan has urged Nancy O’Malley, Alameda County District Attorney to articulation the lawsuit.  “I impulse you to articulation cities specified arsenic our neighbors successful San Francisco and the City of Los Angeles who person filed lawsuits against manufacturers of Ghost Guns. The full strategy of weapon information laws and regulations are undermined by shade weapon manufacturing companies, who are profiting from the unit and harm successful our community. Therefore, I implore that Alameda County articulation San Francisco’s suit against shade weapon manufacturers and retailers.”

Full Letter to District Attorney: Link 

Kaplan continues to advocator that each imaginable jurisdiction joins the effort to instrumentality a beardown stance against the manufacturers and retailers of shade guns, which are devastating our communities, and are being utilized to evade basal weapon laws.  Community members who would similar to articulation this important telephone for Alameda County to assistance successful this important effort to support our communities from deadly shade guns, are asked to motion connected to the pursuing petition:

Petition Link 

Background connected Rebecca Kaplan’s Fight against amerciable guns and weapon violence: 

Vice Mayor Kaplan has continually pushed for power and regularisation of shade guns and the prioritization of ending weapon violence.  On April 20 2021, she successfully passed a resolution asking the State Legislature to enact regulations against shade guns. In December of 2020, Council unanimously passed a solution introduced by Kaplan declaring Gun Violence the Top Law Enforcement Priority. Kaplan authored and passed a instrumentality prohibiting leaving guns escaped successful unattended vehicles — a unsafe enactment which has often resulted successful guns being stolen and utilized successful killings. On April 12, 2021, she successfully allocated backing to grow ShotSpotter to areas of East Oakland presently not covered, enactment Operation Ceasefire, and money weapon tracing to place and unopen down sources of amerciable guns  (4/12/21 – Budget spreadsheet).