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Supervisors advance amended firearm‑storage ordinance with union exemptions
Summary
Supervisor David Campos' ordinance to tighten firearm storage was amended to exempt peace officers whose departments already maintain departmental storage policies; public commenters urged trunk locking and mandatory lockboxes. The committee approved forwarding the amended ordinance with a positive recommendation to the full Board.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors' Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee advanced an amended ordinance aimed at prohibiting unsecured firearm storage, adopting amendments intended to avoid conflict with existing departmental policies and to clarify implementation for peace officers.
Sponsor Supervisor David Campos said labor unions representing officers — including the Police Officers Association and the Sheriff's Union — asked that officers employed by the City and County of San Francisco be exempted from the ordinance if their employing department already has an official departmental policy that governs firearms storage. "The unions requested, that peace officers who are employed by the city and county of San Francisco should be exempted from the requirements of the legislation," Campos said, framing the change as a way to prevent conflicting rules for officers.
Campos described two ordinance amendments that clarify how departmental policies interact with the city ordinance and said he wants the ordinance before the full Board as soon as possible. Public commenters urged stronger safeguards: Paulette Brown, who described losing her son to gun violence, said firearms "should be stored in a lockbox," and another commenter recommended that the ordinance require lockboxes be locked in a vehicle's trunk to reduce theft from break‑ins.
The committee accepted Campos' amendments, took the amended motion without objection and moved the ordinance forward with a positive committee recommendation to the Board.
The ordinance text that the committee amended addresses prohibited storage practices, delivery hours limitations, loitering near licensed premises and special conditions for certain products; the committee's action is a committee recommendation to the full Board, which will take the final vote.
