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The bill would have created a 10% excise tax on retailers for the sale of new handguns and an 11% tax for long guns and ammunition.

The bill would have created a 10% excise tax on retailers for the sale of new handguns and an 11% tax for long guns and ammunition.

The proposed California bill would have created excise taxes on the sale of new guns and would have raised more than $100 million annually for gun violence prevention programs. It failed by nine votes.

Can Newsom Build on Pandemic Lessons to End Homelessness? A motel in Marin County was scheduled to be converted into housing for the homeless under Project Homekey. Photo by Anne Wernikoff, CalMatters ### From the lobby of a former extended-stay motel in San Diego, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced what he called a historic proposal to end a California crisis by converting thousands more hotel rooms into housing for people who are homeless. In all, he proposed spending $12 billion over two years, about 10 times what he proposed spending on homelessness in January, thanks to a budget windfall pegged...

SACRAMENTO —  Citing recent mass shootings in Orange, Boulder, Colo., and the Atlanta area, state lawmakers on Tuesday advanced a proposal for a new tax on the sale of guns and ammunition in California to boost funding for violence prevention programs. The legislation by Assemblyman Marc Levine (D-San Rafael) would place a $25 excise tax on retailers for the sale of each new gun and an as-yet-undetermined levy on ammo sales to raise millions of dollars to fund the efforts. “Gun violence will not end on its own,” Levine told the Assembly Public Safety Committee during a hearing Tuesday...