Burbank has instituted a 45-day moratorium on new gun retailers as the 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 workers to make use of the time to analysis potential modifications to gun ordinances.
The modifications might embody indefinitely suspending the issuance of recent licenses, permitting the variety of gun shops in Burbank to say no by attrition, establishing extra necessities for retailers to resume licenses and enacting new zoning guidelines to forestall gun shops from opening close to colleges or different “delicate use” areas.
Burbank has 14 licensed gun sellers, or one for each 7,386 residents — a focus almost 15 instances larger than within the metropolis of Los Angeles, in keeping with a workers report commissioned this 12 months to review gun shops in Burbank and their results on crime.
The focus can also be larger than in cities equivalent to Pasadena and Glendale, the report mentioned.
“We hear and perceive the group’s issues concerning firearms and firearm retailers in Burbank,” Mayor Jess Tamalantes mentioned in a press release, “which is why Metropolis Council advocates for measures that search to maintain our group protected whereas additionally defending a person’s proper to lawfully bear arms below the Second Modification.”
The evaluation didn’t discover that firearms sellers created “an inordinate demand for public security providers,” metropolis officers mentioned in a launch, however “their congregation alongside essential business corridors raises issues for sustainable and economically numerous retail areas.”
The council additionally mentioned it might think about implementing ordinances concerning ghost weapons and a gun buyback program.
