{"data":{"id":"us-ca/pen-32650","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"PEN § 32650","heading":"","body":"(a) The Department of Justice may issue permits for the possession, manufacture, and transportation or possession, manufacture, or transportation of machineguns, upon a satisfactory showing that good cause exists for the issuance of the permit to the applicant. No permit shall be issued to a person who is under 18 years of age.\n(b) A permit for possession issued pursuant to this section may only be issued to an individual, and may not be issued to a partnership, corporation, limited liability company, association, or any other group or entity, regardless of how that entity was created.","path":["Penal Code - PEN","PART 6. CONTROL OF DEADLY WEAPONS [16000. - 34400.]","TITLE 4. FIREARMS [23500. - 34400.]","DIVISION 10. SPECIAL RULES RELATING TO PARTICULAR TYPES OF FIREARMS OR FIREARM EQUIPMENT [30210. - 33700.]","CHAPTER 6. Machineguns [32610. - 32750.]","ARTICLE 3. Permits [32650. - 32670.]"],"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":"f454cdd1d80c3d050d400c11ecf8f8faa793937e6bc1b6d2a9086cd10dd22e9f","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/pen-32625","next":"us-ca/pen-32655"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}