From the DA’s Desk  
By Robert Phillips  
Deputy District Attorney (ret.) 

Second Amendment Update
Your Personal Information as a Firearms or Ammunition Purchaser, or CCW Applicant  

Are you aware that every time you purchase a new firearm or ammunition or if you apply for a concealed weapons permit that data and some of your personal identification information, is given to the state’s Department of Justice for use at the California Firearm Violence Research Center at the University of California-Davis? [See P.C. §§ 11106(d) & 30352(b)(2]].  

The center is a state institution the legislature created to conduct research and provide information on firearm violence to help the legislature create an informed statewide policy to enact appropriate legislation with the goal of curbing gun violence. (P.C. § 14231.)  

The personal information turned over to the center includes your name, address, identification, place of birth, telephone number, occupation, sex, physical description and legal aliases. [P.C. §§ 11106(b)(2)(A) & 30352(a)(b)(1)]. The statutes also permit the DOJ to share the information with other accredited, non-profit research institutions studying firearm violence. (P.C. §§ 11106(d), 30352(b)(2)). Currently, Stanford University houses the only other institution so ....