SECTION 1.
(a) The Department of Justice shall conduct a study to determine effective firearm safe storage measures to reduce to following:(1) Unintentional injury and death caused by firearms.
(2) Self-inflicted wounds caused by firearms.
(3) Firearm theft.
(4) Unauthorized use of a firearm resulting in the firearm being used in a crime.
(b) The study shall include, but not be limited to, the following:
(1) A comprehensive overview of existing firearm safe storage California law compared to local California ordinances and statutes in other states.
(2) A comprehensive statistical analysis of the rates of unintentional injury and death caused by firearms, self-inflicted wounds caused by firearms, firearm theft, and the unauthorized use of firearms resulting in a firearm being used in a crime, compared to local firearm safe storage ordinances in California and firearm safe storage statutes in other states.
(3) An estimate of the effectiveness of Section 4512 of the San Francisco Police Code in preventing the incidents described in subdivision (a).
(4) An estimate of the effectiveness in preventing the incidents described in subdivision (a) on a statewide basis if Section 4512 of the San Francisco Police Code is enacted into statute.
(c) The department shall report the study to the chairs of the Senate Committee on Public Safety and the Assembly Committee on Public Safety on or before January 1, 2016.