The Sacramento mass shooting is sure to intensify questions about what elected officials can do to curb rising gun violence and crime before concerned Californians vote in the June 7 primary.

Attorney General Bonta announced he is opening a wide-ranging civil rights investigation into the sheriff’s office.

The federal appeals court overturned the decision of a lower court judge who had invalidated California's ban on possession of large-capacity magazines, like the ones used in the killings at the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, as well as the recent fatal shootings at a Michigan high school.

A 20-year-old California would remove guns from people deemed too dangerous to be armed. The measure, plagued by problems, has not achieved its promise.

Nine days after the mass murder of nine VTA workers in San Jose, a federal judge in San Diego overturned California’s assault weapons ban. California officials vowed to win on appeal, but gun advocates are emboldened by a shifting Supreme Court.

Jing Chiang Huang was originally charged with sex trafficking, tax fraud and money laundering in Santa Clara County Superior Court.