By Marisa Lagos, The California Report
The Golden State is known for having the strongest gun restrictions in the nation — but efforts in the state Capitol to push those laws even further in recent years have ended with mixed results.
Gov. Jerry Brown and the Democratic-controlled state Legislature have created 28 new laws that strengthened gun control in California since 2011, when Brown took office. But a KQED News analysis of five years of legislative records shows the governor has vetoed some of the strongest measures passed by lawmakers over the past five years. Meanwhile, the Legislature itself has killed another 28 proposed laws aimed at further restricting guns and ammunition in California.
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