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California Code, Business and Professions Code - BPC § 7596

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(a) Every person licensed, registered, or designated under this chapter, who in the course of their employment carries a firearm, shall complete a course of training in the carrying and use of firearms and shall receive a firearms qualification card prior to the carrying of such a firearm and shall complete a course in the exercise of the power to arrest and the appropriate use of force.  A registration card issued by the bureau pursuant to Section 7598.14 may also serve as a firearms qualification card if so indicated on the face of the card.

(b) This section shall become operative on July 1, 2023.

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