Here we go again: Bullet Button Ban

[ManBearPig]

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/20...nspires-new-legislation-to-ban-bullet-button/

In case this hasn't been posted here yet, California want to ban any and all mechanisms that make it possible to remove a magazine from a semi-automatic rifle. And when the bill actually gets introduced by Senator Leland Yee, I'm betting they'll try their hand at not grandfathering the bullet botton "assault weapons" already in the state.

I don't no why gun owner in California put up with it and just stay living there without access to the good stuff. Get out of that hole in world. Come over to the midwest and shoot some AKs, ARs, .50BMG rifles, and handguns with their actual factory-sized magazines. Good grief.

 

[firesky101]

Thanks guys, because we don't have enough problems here just keep kicking us while we are down. FWIW I doubt this has any chance of passing, there are too many bullet button rifles here now.

 

[bigfatdave]

If a regulation is so stupid that it can be overcome with a device as silly as a bullet button, it should probably be scrapped, not extended.

If a legislator is so stupid that their laws can be bypassed with a device as silly as a bullet button ... ...

 

[j1]

What is a bullet button?

 

[Sam1911]

[Mod Talk: This is THE HIGH ROAD. We don't need to host a bunch of "Just Move" or "CA should fall into the ocean" type talk. That doesn't help ANYONE. If you don't have something constructive to add to the conversation, please don't post.]

 

[MyGreenGuns]

What is a bullet button?

Some states do not allow a magazine release button. Instead is a dimpled surface you have to push with a key or bullet.

Horrible law. Glad we do not have it here.

 

[Radagast]

California bans 'assault weapons' with detachable magazines. So AR15s are illegal, except for grandfathered preban guns.
To get around this ARs with 'fixed' magazines than need a tool to remove them are built. The tool is a bullet used to push in a recessed magazine release that can't be pushed by hand.
It's a work around for an 'evil looking guns are bad' law. The Mini 14 is legal for example.

 

[Sheepdog1968]

For what it's worth, M1a's and mini-14s are easily owned in CA. Some of us were old enough and wise enough to stock up on high capacity magazines for pistols and rifles prior to ban The only good thing about the restrictions is that it saves me from myself. There are many firearms I see folks owning in other states that I can't buy in Ca. If they were legal I'd end up buying them when I really don't need them.

 

[bergmen]

Leave the California bashing out of this. We've heard enough of it already. Stick to the legal issue.

Dan

 

[bigfatdave]

Stick to the legal issue.

What legal issue?

Some yahoo CA congresscritter wants to do something stupid to further expand a stupid law.
You don't have a legal issue, you might have a potential future legal issue, but for now you have a legislator issue.

 

[manithree]

It's all the fault of the gun manufacturers. If they hadn't worked around the original law and made California-approvable bullet buttons, you wouldn't have to worry about this new law. Just because they can doesn't mean they should.

If that was the only legal option, then it would have been ok. What? It was the only legal option?

Whoa! I think I was possessed when I wrote that. Must have been the spirit of Rob Pincus.

 

[Teachu2]

You think the bullet button is nuts - look up the Single Shot Exemption and tell me THAT won't be changed!

 

[bergmen]

What legal issue?

Some yahoo CA congresscritter wants to do something stupid to further expand a stupid law.
You don't have a legal issue, you might have a potential future legal issue, but for now you have a legislator issue.

Post #7 covers it and it is a legal issue. Not a Congressman, a State Senator.

Dan

 

[medalguy]

I'm not from California, and I didn't lose anything the last time I was there, but I'm wondering, maybe some of you Cali residents can tell me: Are there not enough gun owners out there to vote out some of these idiots you've elected in the past? Not a sarcastic comment, I really would like to know if there are enough gun owners there to be a political force.

 

[TT]

The California electorate is overwhelmingly Democratic; RKBA has no chance in the legislative branch. The only progress that can be made will be through the courts.

 

[Teachu2]

I'm not from California, and I didn't lose anything the last time I was there, but I'm wondering, maybe some of you Cali residents can tell me: Are there not enough gun owners out there to vote out some of these idiots you've elected in the past? Not a sarcastic comment, I really would like to know if there are enough gun owners there to be a political force.

Most pro-gun candidates are also anti-handout, thus unelectable in CA.

 

[Frank Ettin]

We don't do politics here, and we don't do snark here, and I haven't seen a whole lot else in this thread.