California Governor Jerry Brown signed several gun control bills into law the Media reports on Saturday.
The bills included one measure that raises minimum age for buying rifles and shotguns from 18 to 21.
The new laws come seven months after a gunman opened fire with a semiautomatic assault-style rifle at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
He killed 14 students and three adults, the second-deadliest mass shooting at a public school in United States history.
The rampage, which authorities say was carried out by a former student, who was 19, has spurred unprecedented activism by victims and their families to prevent future gun violence.
They are demanding stricter gun control across the United States.
California already has some of the strictest gun laws in the nation.
State Senator Anthony Portantino, the Democrat lawmaker who wrote the bill, said the rampage in Florida along with other shootings at high schools motivated him.
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