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Bill	Firearms: ghost guns.	Existing law makes it a crime for a person to manufacture or cause to be manufactured specified firearms. Existing law prohibits a person, other than a state-licensed firearms manufacturer, from using a computer numerical control (CNC) milling machine or three-dimensional printer to manufacture a firearm.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 1263	California AB 1263 (20252026)	bill	Firearms ghostguns	enacted	Gipson	6	29	10	2025-02-21	2025-10-11	openstates	ocd-bill/ce4fb4e2-6d93-4bd9-b4f1-0333e4a67f22	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1263	d05bf0ae9f5a3d797323120922d717bcba9f99b971eb1bc4743e5806a152ba63	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1263 (20252026) — Firearms: ghost guns.

Existing law makes it a crime for a person to manufacture or cause to be manufactured specified firearms. Existing law prohibits a person, other than a state-licensed firearms manufacturer, from using a computer numerical control (CNC) milling machine or three-dimensional printer to manufacture a firearm.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. 02/21/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/24/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 09/05/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/11/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB1263 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/16/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1263 Gipson Assembly Third Reading — 63–10 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–1 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1263 Gipson et al. By Blakespear — 30–10 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 11–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• AB 1263 Gipson Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 62–13 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Gipson — primary (person)
• Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
• Kalra — coauthor (person)
• Schultz — coauthor (person)
• Stefani — coauthor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2025-02-21 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2025-02-22 From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
• 2025-02-24 Read first time. reading-1
• 2025-03-24 Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2025-03-24 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-03-25 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2025-04-09 Coauthors revised.
• 2025-04-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-04-22 Coauthors revised.
• 2025-04-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 1.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-04-30 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2025-05-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 2.) (May 23). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-06-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 63. Noes 10. Page 2025.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-06-04 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-06-18 Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2025-07-02 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-07-16 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (July 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-08-18 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2025-08-29 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 29). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-08-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-05 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 10. Page 2924.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-12 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-09-12 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 62. Noes 13. Page 3387.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-24 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2025-10-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 636, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ce4fb4e2-6d93-4bd9-b4f1-0333e4a67f22. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).