1931 Cal. Stat. 2317

Sec.2. Section 9 of the Dangerous Weapons Control Law is amended to read: Sec. 9. Every person in the business of selling, leasing or otherwise transferring a pistol, revolver or other firearm, of a size capable of being concealed upon the person, whether such seller, lessor or transferor is a retail dealer, pawnbroker, or otherwise, except as hereinafter provided, shall keep a register in which shall be entered the time of sale, the date of sale, the name of the salesman making the sale, the place where sold, the make, model, manufacturer's number, caliber, or other marks of identification on such pistol, revolver or other firearm. Such register shall be prepared by and obtained from the State Printer and shall be furnished by the State Printer to said dealers on application at a cost to be determined by the Department of Finance for each 100 leaves in triplicate, one original and two duplicates for the making of carbon copies, the original, duplicate and triplicate copies to differ in color, and shall be in the form hereinafter provided. The State Printer upon issuing a register shall forward to the State Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation the name and business address of the dealer together with the series and sheet numbers of such register. Such register shall not be transferable. If the dealer shall move his business to a different location he shall notify said bureau of such fact in writing within forty-eight hours. The purchaser of any firearm capable of being concealed upon the person shall sign, and the dealer shall require him to sign his name and affix his address to said register in triplicate, and the salesman shall affix his signature in triplicate as a witness to the signature of the purchaser. One of said triplicate sheets of such register shall, on the date of sale, be placed in the mail, postage prepaid, and properly addressed to the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation at Sacramento and one of said triplicate sheets of said register shall be mailed, postage prepaid, to the board of police commissioners, chief of police, city marshal, town marshal, or other head of police department of the city, city and county, town or other municipal corporation wherein the sale is made; provided, that where the sale is made in a district where there is no municipal police department said triplicate sheet shall be mailed to the county clerk of the county wherein the sale is made. This section shall not apply to wholesale dealers in their business intercourse with retail dealers, nor to wholesale or retail dealers in the regular or ordinary transport of unloaded firearms as merchandise by mail, express or other mode of shipment, to points outside of the city, city and county, town or municipal corporation wherein they are situated. The register provided for in this act shall be substantially in the following form: [form]