Burbank has instituted a 45-day moratorium on new gun retailers as town considers whether or not to enact new restrictions on firearms sellers.
The Metropolis Council voted unanimously Tuesday to implement the moratorium, which took impact instantly, and direct metropolis employees to make use of the time to analysis potential modifications to gun ordinances.
The modifications may embrace indefinitely suspending the issuance of recent licenses, permitting the variety of gun shops in Burbank to say no by way of attrition, establishing extra necessities for retailers to resume licenses and enacting new zoning guidelines to forestall gun shops from opening close to faculties or different “delicate use” areas.
Burbank has 14 licensed gun sellers, or one for each 7,386 residents — a focus almost 15 occasions better than within the metropolis of Los Angeles, in line with a employees report commissioned this yr to review gun shops in Burbank and their results on crime.
The focus can be larger than in cities reminiscent of Pasadena and Glendale, the report stated.
“We hear and perceive the neighborhood’s issues relating to firearms and firearm retailers in Burbank,” Mayor Jess Tamalantes stated in an announcement, “which is why Metropolis Council advocates for measures that search to maintain our neighborhood protected whereas additionally defending a person’s proper to lawfully bear arms underneath the Second Modification.”
The overview didn't discover that firearms sellers created “an inordinate demand for public security companies,” metropolis officers stated in a launch, however “their congregation alongside essential business corridors raises issues for sustainable and economically various retail areas.”
The council additionally stated it will contemplate implementing ordinances relating to ghost weapons and a gun buyback program.
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