(CN) — The California Senate has passed a bounty-hunter law modeled after Texas’ 2021 ban on abortions performed after six weeks gestation — but targeting firearms rather than bodily autonomy.

California legislators have zeroed in on a right the expansiveness of which was again questioned in national headlines Tuesday evening as news broke at least 19 children had been shot and killed in a school shooting in Texas: The Second Amendment.

California senators passed a bill Tuesday on a 24-10 vote which would allow private citizens to file suit for at least $10,000 against makers or sellers of untraceable ghost guns and illegal assault weapons.

The bill, which now goes to the Assembly, was co-written by state Senators Anthony Portantino and Robert Hertzberg, both Democrats from Los Angeles, but was originally proposed by Governor Gavin Newsom this past December after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed Texas to enforce its abortion ban.

“If states can now shield their laws from review by the federal courts that compare assault weapons to Swiss Army knives, then California will use that authority to protect people’s lives, where Texas used it to put women in harm’s way,” Newsom said last year.

Democratic Assemblymen Mike Gipson, also of Los Angeles, and Phil Ting of San Francisco are listed as principal co-authors.

The bill defines illegal assault weapons as including AR-15 semiautomatic assault rifles — the type of firearm used in virtually every mass shooting in the United States.

Ghost guns, which are sold in parts without serial numbers or background checks to be assembled by the user, are also targeted by the bounty law.

The unserialized weapons have been increasingly used in lethal shootings in California and have been identified by city and district attorneys and law enforcement leaders up and down the Golden State as a top concern.

This month, San Diego netted its first conviction under the city’s ordinance barring anyone from having a ghost gun.

The Eliminate Non-Serialized Untraceable Firearm (ENUF) ordinance was introduced by San Diego City Councilmember Marni von Wilpert after a man opened fire on strangers in downtown’s Gaslamp Quarter, killing one and injuring four. The suspect — who was prohibited from using guns — used a ghost gun in the shooting.

U.S. District Judge Cynthia Bashant, a Barack Obama appointee, refused to block San Diego’s ban on ghost guns in 2021, finding because residents could assemble their own weapons using preserialized frames or receivers, the city’s ban didn’t amount to a “total ban” infringing Second Amendment rights.

Portantino told his Senate colleagues that California has “some of the toughest gun laws in the country,” but he said the bill and the private lawsuits it would authorize would create “an incentive to get these dangerous weapons off the street.”

In a statement following the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, California Attorney General Rob Bonta gave a nod to state legislators looking to regulate unserialized, DIY ghost guns.

“We need fewer guns on our streets, not more. We need fewer guns in the hands of young people, not more. We need to regulate ghost gun kits and hold accountable those who manufacture and sell them illegally,” Bonta said.

Another bill targeting firearms manufacturers has also been making its way through the California Legislature this year.

Assembly Bill 1594, introduced by Ting, Gipson and Assemblyman Chris Ward of San Diego, would exploit a loophole under federal law so California residents who have suffered harm by guns could bring a civil action against gun makers and sellers when state law is broken.

AB 1594 passed the Assembly Appropriations committee in a 12-4 vote on May 19 and was ordered to a third reading in the Assembly on Monday.

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