Sale of firearms that use bullet buttons surge ahead of new California gun law

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[T-Bone Texan]

I used to be a member of CRPA. We pronounced it “Crappeh”, and they were way more useful and aggressive than the NRA ever was.

Every few months they’d send out a synopsis of their court battles and the outcomes, which was awesome.

They had a cool bumpersticker. IIRC, it was a California flag but instead of the bear it bore a rifle, but it has been a while.

[Forty-Niner]

Deputy Matt....”I will not comply” Matt and 400 other California Deputies vow not to enforce California’s new gun laws signed by Moonbeam in July.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9O5Zb7JL64

[doorgunner69]

Of course it is silly. What did you expect from liberal politicians that do not understand, but FEEL there must be something done?

Suprised no law has yet been written banning:
"that shoulder thing that goes up"!

[Redcitizen]

Bullet buttons help bullets keep their full metal jackets on.

[Freedom56v2]

LOL

[King Moonracer]

I wonder if a small neodymium magnet would make that easier to use. Just saying.

[Yogafist]

LOL, they already have, but it is a tab you screw into the center of the button and makes it function normally. I have bought two bullet buttons, and both came with it.

[Yogafist]

In fact, they still show it with the attachable button at Rifle Gear.

http://www.riflegear.com/p-58-ar15-bullet-button.aspx

[absalom01]

Sorry to be late on the reply. You are refencing the law prior to the passage of AB1135. This new law is summarized by the ILA as follows:

“Here’s a summary of Brown’s actions:

SIGNED BOTH- Assembly Bill 1135 and Senate Bill 880 would make changes of monumental scale to California’s firearm laws by reclassifying hundreds of thousands of legally owned semi-automatic rifles as “assault weapons.” This legislation effectively outlaws magazine locking devices, more commonly known as “bullet buttons”.These areconstitutionally protected firearms that have no association with crime. These changes would happen quickly with great individual costs to many gun owners and without public notice. Governor Brown vetoed similar legislation in 2013.”

The above is a little confusing, by referencing the “bullet button” which allowed AR pattern rifles, and others with detachable magazines absent some of the silly cosmetic “features” you reference to escape the draconian intent of the gun-ignorant legislators to ban all “scary black” rifles. The new language, while it does not remove the previous cosmetic feature list adds this:

“(b) For purposes of this section, “fixed magazine” means an ammunition feeding device contained in, or permanently attached to, a firearm in such a manner that the device cannot be removed without disassembly of the firearm action.”

This would cover your mini-14, your springfield M1A1 and other previously “california legal” rifles.

Yes, it’s that bad. Yes, the Cali legislature has gone that far off of the deep end.

[William Tell]

My understanding of the new law is that it only changes the definition of a "fixed magazine" such that rifles with bullet buttons are now classified as having detachable magazines.

The "assault weapons" laws defines as assault weapons those rifles which have detachable magazines and also at least one "scary feature" (not a legal term). If a rifle does not have any scary features then it is not an assault rifle (with some named exceptions).

Help me understand why this is not a correct understanding. You seem to be suggesting that any rifle which accepts a detachable magazine will soon be a registered "assault weapon". I don't think so.