California’s New Gun Laws Go Into Effect, New Workarounds Do Too

By Tom Knighton

Gun owners are an inventive bunch. No matter what law you try to cram down our throats, someone will come up with a way around it. If you ban a certain weapon, manufacturers will simply rename it, change a few things so they can claim it’s a new weapon, and then put it back on the market. Ban guns with certain features, and guns will be made lacking those features.

After all, there was no shortage of AR-15s during the Assault Weapon Ban, contrary to what the media may like to tell you.

Yet California hasn’t learned their lesson that score. They keep trying to take the “evil feature” approach, and what happens?

However, owners can modify their guns to get around the registration requirement, said Rich Howell, general manager of Olde West Gun & Loan in Redding.

A semiautomatic rifle with such features as a collapsible stock, a pistol grip that extends below the trigger guard, a flash hider at the end of the barrel and a detachable magazine need to be registered in California, Howell said.

But manufacturers and gun shops have developed a workaround to make AR-15-type semiautomatic rifles with detachable magazines legal under California law.

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Source:: Bearing Arms