CA Makes Moves to Ban Most Semi-Auto Firearms

NSSF ^ | 7/2/12

[pabianice]

(GunReports.com) -- If you think it is hard to own and possess a semi-automatic firearm in California now, just wait until Senate Bill 249 gets enacted, NRA-ILA reports.

Senate Bill 249 was amended from an agriculture bill to a serious anti-gun bill to eliminate the ownership and possession of most semi-automatic firearms by law-abiding Californians. SB 249, introduced by state Senator Leland Yee (D-8), would restrict any person from importing, making, selling, loaning, transferring or possessing magazine release components in semi-auto firearms (bullet button, etc).

Senate Bill 249, if enacted, would ban the ownership and possession of AR-15s and other magazine-fed semi-automatic firearms that currently use "bullet buttons" or other tools to restrict the removal of the magazine. This anti-gun bill would also authorize civil and criminal penalties for possessing a "conversion kit."

Also, SB 249 would make the possession of a "conversion kit" a public nuisance, authorize civil and criminal penalties and require surrendering the conversion kit. According to this bill, a conversion kit is any combination of parts that, when affixed to a firearm with a fixed magazine, are designed and intended to convert that firearm into an “assault weapon” as defined in the bill.

[RedMDer]

Click

[Carriage Hill]

There’s a “Tree” in Kalifornia, which sorely needs a deep “Refreshing”. And real damned soon.

[crosshairs]

As soon as the economy picks up, I’m out of this %#@&^ state.

Better pencil in the 12th of Never on your calendar then.

[umgud]

Gun control is kinda like trying to solve drunk driving by making it harder for sober people to own cars.

[mylife]

No. It would still be a fixed mag Hi cap.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

YOU ARE WRONG! They will not have semi-auto’s they will have fully automatic firearms.

[Paladin2]

So, tube magazines are still good?

[mylife]

They should be, as defined by the original fixed mag law.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

What is a “bullet button?”

[Sea Parrot]

Obama and the dems will furnish them for free to the victim class.

[Rio]

other magazine-fed semi-automatic firearms that currently use "bullet buttons" or other tools to restrict the removal of the magazine

I think of myself as relatively gun-savvy, but I don't know what they're getting at with the bullet button thing. Can someone explain?

[Sea Parrot]

One thing has rather amazed me about Texas, there is ono open carry allowed for Texans.

[mylife]

The mag release on Ca legal Hi caps has been removed so that you cant just drop a mag out with your finger and slap on another mag.
Smart manufacturers replaced it with a recessed release that could be actuated with the tip of a bullet so that you could still remove the mag for cleaning and be within the letter of the law.

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

[mylife]

It has been like that in Tx since the constitution was written.

[LouAvul]

When they outlawed “assault” (cf their definition) rifles, one of the criteria happened to be an external/quick mag release. So, californians devised a “button” that requires using something with a sharp tip to release the mag. Something like a pointed bullet. Hence, the “bullet” button.

[Red Steel]

The Communists in the Kalifornia Senate have been busy lately.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

"“Do you really think we want those laws observed?" Said Dr. Ferris. We want them broken. You better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against - then you'll know this is not the age for beautiful gestures. We're after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick and you'd better get wise to it. There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt. Now, that's the system Mr. Reardon, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with."

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, Part 2, Chapter 3, Page 404

[mylife]

Exactly.

[smokingfrog]

http://stopsb249.org

[mylife]

Don’t bring any of this Nanny State business to Tx!