I stand corrected although my answer was based on picturing a standard ar15/ak47 modern sports rifle. Fortunately, I live in a state whose state government’s interest is in expanding rather than reducing its citizens’ firearms freedoms.
A California friend had to choose a bullet button ar15. As I recall, the San Berdoo jihadis had illegally modified their weapons to replace the bulletin buttons making their crimes that much more heinous. (Everyone seems to forget that their main killing weapons were to be bombs (which failed) rather the guns). Just like the Santa Barbara killer killed half of his victims with a knife.
Don’t some of these new laws basically outlaw nearly all semi autos?
I would be surprised if it took longer than five or six minutes to return a bullet-button rifle to its original function. Anti-gunners are so ignorant that they treat guns as if they are tremendously complex items. They aren't.
hanamizu said: "Don’t some of these new laws basically outlaw nearly all semi autos?"
I can't speak about the newly proposed laws. I don't have the time or energy to follow all the legislature's nonsense. I will write to the Governor if any of this nonsense reaches his desk.
As for existing law, the impact has mostly been on AR and AK type rifles, due to their visual similarity to the real assault rifles used by the military.
The Ruger Ranch Rifle is very popular with, ... wait for it ..., ranchers. It fires the same round at the same velocity as an M16. Normal capacity magazines are available throughout the U.S., although they are illegal to import into Kalifornia. These rifles are especially useful for protecting stock from predators such as coyotes. I'm not a hunter, but I believe most jurisdictions do not allow the .223 cartridge to be used for most hunting. This is because the round is UNDER-POWERED and is less likely to accomplish a clean kill. It is nowhere near as powerful a round as a 30.06 or a .308.
It is only the ignorance of the anti-gunners and the complicit media that allows these nonsensical laws to be proposed and passed.
One of the really remarkably idiotic efforts is the coming attack on purchasing ammunition. The average criminal probably uses ten rounds in his whole career. Criminals and terrorist will NEVER have trouble getting sufficient ammunition for their nefarious purposes. Ammunition laws will only have the effect of penalizing the law-abiding and causing some people to stock-pile enormous quantities of ammo that should be available at any time off-the-shelf.