{"data":{"id":"us-ca/bpc-7596","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"BPC § 7596","heading":"","body":"(a) Every person licensed, registered, or designated under this chapter, who in the course of their employment carries a firearm, shall complete a course of training in the carrying and use of firearms and shall receive a firearms qualification card prior to the carrying of such a firearm and shall complete a course in the exercise of the power to arrest and the appropriate use of force. A registration card issued by the bureau pursuant to Section 7598.14 may also serve as a firearms qualification card if so indicated on the face of the card.\n(b) This section shall become operative on July 1, 2023.","path":["Business and Professions Code - BPC","DIVISION 3. PROFESSIONS AND VOCATIONS GENERALLY [5000. - 9998.12.]","CHAPTER 11.6. Alarm Companies [7590. - 7599.80.]","ARTICLE 6. Firearms Permits and Permits for Other Deadly and Nonlethal Weapons [7596. - 7596.13.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"06ec26bb51a9b023713e4d799da846014c64fe8df2bdc0934290455ece169df4","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/bpc-7594.6","next":"us-ca/bpc-7596.3"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}